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Levi Weaver, but for baseball

@threetwoeephus.bsky.social
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Ok I will talk about baseball here instead. I co-write The Windup with Ken Rosenthal on The Athletic. It’s a newsletter.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 19m
did the freezing cold takes folks migrate to bluesky with us, or do i just need to self-report from now on?
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 24m
I should be clear: it's a compliment. The baseball season has cooked all of our brains by late September, so posting something chuckle-worthy in mid-October is the "You got a swinging K on a 58mph eephus on your 145th pitch of the night, go rest." situation.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 39m
Caminero bats fifth in the bottom of the ninth, if anyone is trying to figure out the most dramatic outcome possible.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 3h
It really does! And we probably *should* remember them, because every game counts for the same number of wins. I am once again reminded to simply enjoy being in the fleeting moment as it happens*. (*and also take copious notes, since that is my job)
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 3h
There have been at least a half-dozen plays **in this game alone** where I've thought "If [team] win this series, we're going to remember that play." It's too early in the series for that! And yet
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 4h
OK pitchers gotta stop trying to throw the ball to first base today. There's a system glitch somewhere, we gotta reset it. Just stop throwing over there for today.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 4h
Every year around this time, there's always one post where my immediate reaction is to want to walk over to the poster like a manager, put out my hand, demand the phone and say "You did great this season, you gave it your all. Go hit the showers."
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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 4h
Nothing could’ve prepared me for the ad read of the century from the Brewers radio broadcast after that Christian Yelich go-ahead single:
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You're giving them too much credit. This is the company whose ads are like "On a Wednesday after a rainstorm, catchers whose first names start with J have a 55% chance of walking if they jump the foul line and more than 50% of fans are wearing rally caps."
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Google cloud gives Hernandez a 38% chance to get his third hit listen to yourself, google cloud 38%? Even if — EVEN IF — he is hitting .380 in third at-bats after getting two hits, that is a small-sample-size glitch. CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As dramatic and fun as this back-and-forth is tonight, my biggest takeaway is that I just do not think either of these teams look remotely qualified to beat the Rays.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apparently they would!!!
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But what I’m gathering is that there might be ways that others are potentially authenticating their cable providers, and thus able to watch in the app when it would otherwise be blacked out?
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hmmmm I don’t think so, but I hadn’t considered that possibility
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So far I’ve only spent about $3
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I had it set to only show to - Male - 40-49 - MLB Enthusiasts - Texas - DFW - Watching on MLB.tv That last one is the big one — since these games are blacked out on MLB.tv to the general public, it **should** be basically just … me. Apparently, these were more "suggestions" than "rules"???
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This was only meant to be seen by me, and it did not occur to me that the ad would somehow break containment and be seen by people who are, decidedly, NOT ME.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I did not see my ad play yesterday while I was watching the four DS games. However. There has been a development. SOMEONE SAW IT. MULTIPLE SOMEONES, IN FACT
111 impressionsA breakdown of the demographics of who saw my ad. It was supposed to be ONLY ME
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
well this is a question i hadn't previously considered
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was always going to be this, wasn't it? Brewers vs. Dodgers, with a salary-cap-lockout looming?
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Slightly too late but still very good
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When Adam Jones took that home run from Machado in the WBC, I got in trouble for photoshopping the screenshot into the last supper painting. People here in Dallas *hated* it. What I'm saying is, someone send me the screenshot of Garrett Mitchell making that catch.
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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lots of people know what Eck did in ‘88, but few remember how he fired up the Braves in ‘96 and then the Cardinals blew a 3-1 lead. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
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October 14, 1996: Braves blow out Cardinals 14-0 to begin NLCS comeback – Society for American Baseball Research
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did not expect to get a "discovered by the Germans in 1904" Anchorman reference on this broadcast, but you only get half-credit if you don't finish the line.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On another night, I could get on board with this version. Tonight, I just have a different completely insane plan that I would implement.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No. Big-market teams are forbidden from trading, and therefore their players are off-limits. (This is how you get them on board with this plan)
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The fans long for the franken-superteam, they just don't know it yet.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Paul Skenes plays for the Rays now, for about three weeks. The White Sox are starting Chase Burns in G1, and he'll be opposing Logan Gilbert for the Rays. Big-market teams hate this plan? Well guess what, your players can't be traded, so there's the benefit to you. No injury risk.
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens
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Melissa Lockard @melissalockard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seems rude for the Rays to sweep the Yankees out of the playoffs after the Yankees let them sleep at their vacation house all season last year.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The league doesn't need a salary cap, they just need to eliminate the trade deadline for small market teams. Under my policy, if the Brewers win tonight, they would be able to trade with the Padres to get Tatis, Machado, Morejon, Merrill, and Miller, and then trade back after the World Series.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I did know the injury part somewhere in the back of my brain, but it got stuck underneath a pile of Jazz Chisholm and Kiké Hernández facts
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't disagree with this! But not putting yourself in a position to find out is just not great playoff baseball execution. (I really hate sounding like an Old Baseball Crank on this.)
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just off the top of my head, there's been two today: Miguel Vargas on the bases-loaded line drive to José Ramírez, and Ozzie Albies just now on that wall-ball. I feel like I've seen 2-3 others this postseason, but haven't been taking notes.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
During the regular season, I think the "he's not running hard out of the box" narrative gets overused. It's not JV, it's a 162-game season. Take care of your body. But in the playoffs? Surprised how many instances we've already seen of guys not busting it out of the box & it costs them a base.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ha! No worries, it happens all the time, you’re good
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I did write about that at the time. Still felt like Mahle was an underwhelming pivot, but it turns out I was wrong! www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If it were me in charge of the 2026 Milwaukee Brewers, I would have traded for first-half Kyle Harrison, of the Milwaukee Brewers. In hindsight, that would have been both misguided and logistically perplexing.
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not a hot take guy over here, but here are two things I felt strongly about after the trade deadline: Atlanta's big move to patch up the rotation was Tyler Mahle?? (Incorrect take) Milwaukee's big move to go win their first World Series was Dustin May/Jojo Romero?? (correct take)
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Twitter post I made back in who even knows what year but Gabe Kapler was managing the Giants, so a WHILE ago. He’s walking out to the mound with a coach that looks a lot like him. Caption: “When Gabe Kapler goes out to make a pitching change, he knows the pitcher might get mad and invoke a clause requiring a vote, so he brings a second Gabe Kapler with him (to get double votes)”
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is my personal Super Bowl
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Hi Levi,
Thanks for reaching out. I am seeing that the campaign started running late on 10/6, you should start seeing numbers on the dashboard on 10/8 since most of the traffic started happening on 10/7 (Today)
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes it would!! It would simply grow three sizes — everyone’s would; I saw this in a movie once!
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With apologies to fans in LA and Atlanta, I make a motion that this Padres-Brewers NLDS be made a best of 13, winner goes straight to the World Series
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pat Murphy dropping the hard GD in prime time, lol
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If the MLBPA had any appetite for playing dirty they would infiltrate conspiracy theory websites and start a whisper campaign saying not only is this real but Rob Manfred masterminded the arrangement to get a salary cap pushed through. Why should Jerry Falwell get all the good Satanic panic???
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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Baseball doesn’t need a salary cap, it needs to make it illegal for Kiké Hernândez to invite Demon Manny Ramírez to possess him for the entirety of every spooky season, in perpetuity.
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Erik @erikgt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This isn’t even one of those “yeah, well he’s getting more chances because of the expanded format”. This is just game 4. Everyone got at least 4 games
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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reggie
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