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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 02/10/2026

The Protect College Sports Act got 77 votes in the Senate. It doesn't do what its backers say it does, but it DOES achieve a lot of other things. One of them is perpetuate the diversion of $$ from black football players to a largely white class of ADs, coaches, and agents slate.com/culture/2026...

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Ted Cruz Is Getting His Way With a New Law. Democrats Are Letting Him. No One Wants to Admit What It Does.

Donald Trump is eager to sign the bill. Democrats shouldn't let it get there.

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Ipecac Recordings @ipecac.com · 30/09/2026

Ahead of dälek's return to the stage in North America and in support of their latest album, Brilliance of a Falling Moon, Today they are sharing a brand new track which did not appear on the album, titled “Surrealist”. dalek.lnk.to/surrealist @daleknwk.bsky.social

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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 29/09/2026

What is an "unspoken threat"? The Blazers have nowhere better to go and zero offers on the table. Either the team is threatening to leave or it isn't.

New owner Tom Dundon has an unspoken threat that he may try to move the Trail Blazers out of Portland in 2030. That’s the backdrop for negotiations between the Dundon-led ownership group and the city of Portland over a new lease and renovations for the Moda Center, the city-owned arena that’s home to the Trail Blazers and the WNBA’s Portland Fire.

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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026

Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣

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David Molnar @theonlymolnar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I do not know what this means, but I ❤️ it.

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David Molnar @theonlymolnar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

same, but taking the Subject and General tests of the GRE on the same day. I don't even have an excuse.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together would have immediately deduced the overlap between “Mr. Beast fan” and “person who reads books” was so small as to approach the Planck length, but now I’m legitimately thinking about reviewing this because I’m curious how bad it could be

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The NFL doesn't have "markets," it has 30 TV studios. Two-thirds of revenue comes in through the national-TV deals; there is no local TV, and successful teams sell 600-650K tickets. There is absolutely nothing connecting the business models of the two leagues. It's apples and concussions.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026

For Zuck, people aren't co-equals with needs that are as real and important as his own. For Zuck, people are problems to be solved. He embodies Terry Pratchett's maxim (voiced by Granny Weatherwax) that "sin is when you treat people like things." 20/

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I just had a gyro. Here's what Christopher Nolan gets wrong about Greek culture.

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

and then what happened

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That Claude ad fucking suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It’s just amazing how Peter Seitz ruled on the reserve clause more than 50 years ago, and multiple generations of owners still think about baseball players like a constipated Gussie Busch.

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” was released on this date in 1972.

Colored-pencil card drawing of David Bowie circa 1972

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Brief rant: Yes it's cool that Brunson took less money so the Knicks could build a champion under the salary cap. But he shouldn't have *had* to. Salary caps are just tools billionaires use to suppress wages, and no one gets upset because the labor (pro athletes) make so much money. 1/5

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you take nothing else from this feed before you unfollow, take this: MLB and its team owners do not, never have, and never will give a single flying fuck about what the fans think. If they’re citing “the fans,” they’re just lying.

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 03/06/2026

Paige is the white girl who should be receiving the admiration Caitlin Clark gets imo

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 02/06/2026

please, I beg to have to understand baseball trades in these terms, it seems like such a good time!

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Waffles, pancakes, etc.

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 28/05/2026

another point in why a cap/floor system is inherently anti-labor is that the cap/floor system gives owners more power/leverage that can lead to much more union busting. if owners are given a system that they can wield more power with, there will be attempts to ensure they get what they want.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I will say this again and again until the cap fetishists get it. There is a 1:1 correlation between "leagues that have broken their unions" and "leagues with a payroll cap." Let that be a clue as to who wins in a cap system.

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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 26/05/2026

SANTA DELIVERED A NO-HITTER ON MEMORIAL DAY 🎅

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Oh yeah this is the good shit

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wishing a happy birthday to Decoy Ohtani!

Three drawings picturing Decoy with Shohei over the years

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Often parties begin by taking positions in bargaining. Unanimous support for a salary cap is a position. It's not an interest. The more the clubs (that's what this multi-employer group likes to be called) talk about salary caps the slower the bargaining will go. 1/ www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

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MLB, players' union meet to begin labor talks, sources say

Top officials from Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association met Tuesday to officially open up collective bargaining talks a little more than six months before the expiration of the game's labor deal, sources told ESPN.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Reaction to the Rob Thomson/Don Mattingly swap by the Phillies is posted free at the site. Read, love, subscribe. Need money for my ballroom. www.joesheehan.com

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Joe Sheehan Newsletter

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Iggy Pop, 1969 Topps style, in honor of his birthday today

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 18/04/2026

old man wanna be rich rich man wanna be king and a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything

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David Molnar @theonlymolnar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I forgot to buy peanuts and crackerjack.

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Ipecac Recordings @ipecac.com · 24/03/2026

Out this Friday is the new album from dälek, Brilliance of a Falling Moon, and our friends @bandcamp have made it their Album Of The Day! Read and listen at dalek.lnk.to/bandcamp "They are revolutionary in word and deed with an envelope-pushing sound to back it up. A rare thing indeed."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

But Grammarly has just rolled out an AI tool that is so obviously contemptuous of writing that they might as well have called it "Go fuck yourself, by Grammarly." 42/

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Congratulations to Mark Teixeira on his big primary win in Texas. I am sure he will be a totally shameful and absolutely forgettable member of congress. It's basically what he's running on. defector.com/mark-teixeir...

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Mark Teixeira Is Ready To Do Whatever It Is Congress Guys Have To Do | Defector

As Texas congressional districts go, the 21st is pretty easy to parse. The outline of it, which dips into Austin and enfolds a vast swath of the San Antonio suburbs, looks like a lumpier-than-average ...

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Craig naIls it. I wrote on r.s.b 30 years ago that ”competitive balance” is code for “the players make too much money.” Still true. Cannot underline enough that the owners don’t care about competitive balance. It’s just the line that most effectively cons the rubes.

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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"Math is not true because we tell kids it is true; math is true because they can find that truth for themselves. We can find these truths together."

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Fate of Castellanos” is my favorite Poe.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox, 1977 Topps style

Colored-pencil card drawing of Bill Veeck

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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David Molnar @theonlymolnar.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

now I'm never going to get any work done.

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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Happy Jackie Robinson born day

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Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here's the story on the Red Sox' acquisition of 1B Willson Contreras - which offers the potential for a significant upgrade at a position (1B) where the team was among the worst in baseball in 2025, while keeping the door open to further lineup upgrade(s): www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/21/s...

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Red Sox trade for Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras - The Boston Globe

Contreras moved from catcher to first base in 2025.

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