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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 21h

Do I want to go back to May, 2020? Absolutely not. But I was just reminded of this story … it was maybe the most fun I've had doing "journalism". I still have some of this nonsense. (Also: strap in, this sort of thing might be baseball journalism again in 2027) www.nytimes.com/athletic/182...

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The eBay challenge: 7 writers see how far (and far-flung) $50 will take them (Published 2020)

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone in the baseball is running on adrenaline, fumes and [whatever desperate chemical cocktail it is that runs through animal brains when they are about to die] right now. Here, for one example, is a transcript of Phillies radio at the end of the bottom of the fourth inning:

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know what Strauss is And if I ever learn, I will never use their product That’s how gross I think it is to put logos on the batting helmets

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite thing about Chris Sale is that guy who once cut up uniforms he didn’t like, who still touches 100 at 37 years old, who looks like he was just rescued from a remote mountain cabin, adorned in bear hide & mad at being found …routinely makes a body shape reminiscent of Stuart from MadTV

No idea how to describe this???? Ok uhhh let’s see… he just threw a pitch (it was 100mph btw) and is balancing on his right foot with his left foot and left arm strewn behind him as if to say LOOKWHATICANDO

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No idea what’s going on in the production truck, but we got some live behind-the-scenes before it cut to the vodka man who I see roughly 50-70 times per night and who will haunt my dreams for months, if not years

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching the MLB Network reruns, and Harold Reynolds suggests that tomorrow around this time, batters are going to have a horrible time in Atlanta because of those shadows. Greg Amsinger points out that there's a batting cage there?? that won't be there?? tomorrow?? Reynolds: "That's a good point"

a picture of my tv featuring phillies hitters taking bp and boy are those shadows bad. but fear not, they're actually gonna take the cage off the field for the game.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cool as these Verlander /Scherzer moments were, I can’t stop thinking what a bummer it is that the Blue Jays and Tigers were hoth supposed to be playoff contenders and both went fully wheels-off this year.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is correct! My mistake. I hope he throws 140 (and then comes back and pitches next year too)

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Max Scherzer going seven innings and 107 pitches (SO FAR) is delightful to me, a fellow grumpy man in my 40s

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lol Lmao, even (Unless you’re a Phillies fan, in which case…. [puts on somber face] … sorry.)

Rays currently beating Phillies, DBacks beating Padres

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me: What a cool day. No chance I’m gonna cry at this though. AJ Hinch: [has Justin Verlander’s daughter come to the mound to make the pitching change that ends his career] oh no

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Would it be too much to ask the Tigers to score a few tiny little runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates on a bullpen day?

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If that’s Verlander’s last strikeout, the fact it was four inches outside and called strike three by Laz Diaz, with both teams out of challenges would be … I’m not sure the right word? Funny???

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok ok ok we have all made the Billy Chapel joke this week but now let’s just let Justin Verlander have a normal final outing okay (He goes 1-2-3 in the first)

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know back then, there was this sorta "You can't be MVP on a last place team" thing for BBWAA voting, but Barry Bonds was the second ever 40/40 guy and got zero first-place votes. That's … That's wild. www.baseball-reference.com/awards/award...

baseball-reference.com

1996 Awards Voting | Baseball-Reference.com

Winners and Vote Totals for the MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year Awards

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very weird situation, but true for now: Guardians: 82-76, have not clinched playoff spot White Sox: 82-77, have clinched playoff spot It's because of tiebreakers, but I am not going to spend 20 minutes figuring it out, because if Cleveland wins tonight, it's moot. If they lose, I'll do the math

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gghere.bsky.social @gghere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve had four game going at once with the same Tremfya ad going on all four, does that count?

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No way I can recreate this for film, but I’m watching DBacks/Rockies on one screen and Mets/Rangers on the other … and suddenly I hear the stadium-PA cowbell clap-clap-clap thing, and it’s precisely in sync, from both devices at once, in stereo.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That will probably do it for the 2026 Rangers (he said, for the i've-lost-trackth time this year).

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The MLB app has heard my pleas and is trying something new tonight. Literally every half-inning as it goes to commercial, it freezes. This is on every device, even after reinstalls. This is just what it does now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Amazing experience. Five stars (preferably nearby supernovas)

“There was an error playing this game, please try again later”

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here is a thread with all the playoff scenarios. I think. First, what's settled: Rays: AL East champs, No. 1 seed in AL Yankees: AL No. 4 seed Red Sox: in the playoffs Dodgers: NL West champs Brewers: NL Central champs, first round bye Braves: NL East champs After that, it gets a little messy:

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My work night usually starts around 6pm CT (EST games) and ends around 2 am, watching highlights as I finish writing (to make sure I didn't miss anything) I'm only half-joking when I say: MLB's decision to play the same 4-5 commercials every ad break has contributed negatively to my mental health.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[Me, just about to ask why this guy gets to have lower-case letters on the back of his jersey…] So, why does this guy get to h— [Closed captions: ]

Astros pitcher with VanWey on the back of his jersey. Captions read: "…show some respect to another culture. Two outs."

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I were prone to hot takes, I would say something like "It's not often the Yankees have the second-best uniforms at their own home games" I wouldn't actually fully mean that, but these new Rays road unis are excellent.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[Don Mattingly, conspicuously walking by Dave Dombrowski’s office, casually singing “If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it,” only to hear Dombrowski singing it right back at him]

Red Sox remove interim tag from manager Chad Tracy’s title

Mets also make Andy Green their full time manager

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

True! Only five challenges in the first nine innings — three confirmed, two overturned. Hit a wall in the 10th, though. Whew. (courtesy Baseball Savant)

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Laz Diaz is having a horrific bottom of the 10th inning in Anaheim. I haven't been counting how many ABS calls he's had overturned (I've been writing), but I think it's at least three

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Brewers became the first team to clinch their division in 2026, officially, when the Cubs’ loss to Atlanta went final. So the play that clinched it was Pete Crow-Armstrong lining out to a right fielder named … WHAT

Brewer Hicklen.

Clinched it for the Brewers.

Plays for the Braves.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was down everwhere I guess. It just came back for me, but with the radio audio.... which just abruptly switched back to TV audio. Dave Raymond (Rangers TV) says it was a "power outage"

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meanwhile — correct me if I'm wrong, Rangers fans — the Rangers' broadcast has been off the air for at least the last 10-15 minutes. Just commercials-only on MLB app. "Weather delay" on BZZR app. This future is so much better than when we had to jump through hoops like "turning on a TV"

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Both the White Sox and Guardians could: - Win the AL Central - Win the third Wild Card - Miss the playoffs entirely. Obviously, the best path forward for each is to win these head-to-head games, so tonight's game feels a little October-ish; Guards down one after Bazzana's second HR of the night.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

for no good reason at all i looked it up to see if any former mlb players were born the same day as me (same year and everything) the answer is no, but i slot right in between eric hull (5 games in 2007 for dodgers) and ryan theriot (899 games for cubs/dodgers/cardinals/giants).

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So I’m in Austin. Hanging out with my Sandlot teammates after our game. Soon as the last touchdown scored, I was like “alright I’m out; gotta be in bed before they burn this city down.”

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Baseball update: Anthony Gose (yes, the same Anthony Gose who broke into the league as an OF in 2012 but has been a pitcher since 2021) is not only back in the big leagues, but he has a very weird line for the Royals: 6.1 innings pitched, 1.42 ERA, 0.789 WHIP, and **zero strikeouts**

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just now catching up on this Doug Eddings cap thing. I don’t know Eddings, so I can’t say definitively that he is a bad person, but I *DO* feel comfortable saying this is the way that bad people behave

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

TWICE IN A WEEK … AND BOTH OF THEM PLAYED IN TODAY’S GAME

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve played 3 baseball games in the last 24 hours (in New Hampshire/Maine) & body feels like it’s made of balsa wood and haunted old rusted antique toys. But it’s been a lot of fun and also I have one more game tomorrow In the meantime I am somewhere called funspot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funspot

en.wikipedia.org

Funspot - Wikipedia

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Astros are only two games ahead of Texas. For peak chaos, why not a three-way tie for the division -AND- an eight-way tie for the last ALWC?

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Absolutely rooting for a six-way tie, just for the sheer confusion of it

Rangers in third AL wild card spot

Blue Jays, Orioles, Tigers a half-game out, Twins, Guardians one game out.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

2026 has been one of the most entertaining and intriguing regular seasons I can remember, following 2025 — one of the most entertaining postseasons I can recall. I can’t believe the league’s primary message to justify an upcoming lockout is “this all sucks, actually”

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Emil Jiménez is at it again. Just did the same thing to Julio Rodriguez (denied timely challenge) Then the next half inning, did it AGAIN to one of the Rays, and 3B umpire Doug Eddings had to come overrule him. MLB has got to get a handle on this. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

nytimes.com

The Windup: League drag rate gets more suspicious

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yankees score two in the ninth to tie, then walk it off in the 10th to stay a half-game up on Boston for the first wild card; ends Atlanta’s 8-game winning streak Couple minutes later, Ryan Waldschmidt hits a walk-off 2R homer for Arizona, extends Dodgers losing streak to 7 games What a night

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Joey Bart coming out of the game. Playing catcher for the White Sox is simply a cursed job assignment this year; a deal with Mephistopheles: “You will not lose 100 games, and may even make the playoffs. But your catchers belong to me.”

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My daughter (13) came in while I was writing about Yan & it gave me a chance to tell a baseball story to a kid who largely doesn’t care about the sport. She was thoroughly entertained, and I think that’s gonna be my answer to anyone who doesn’t like Yan’s antics Don’t care! He’s fun! Joy = good!

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