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In 2018, MLB had more strikeouts than hits for the first time ever. That trend has accelerated in 2019.

Velocity is strangling baseball — and its grip keeps tightening. wapo.st/2HG3Gmu

Pick a problem, or a perceived problem, in baseball, and it can probably be traced back to the rise of velocity as the sport’s ultimate weapon wapo.st/2VQkvVO

As baseball celebrates its 150th season, the version of the sport being played in 2019 is unlike any other in its history wapo.st/2VPgLUi

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Kim Taehyung, the strict CEO of KTH Entertainment, got involved in a scandal when the camera took some pictures of him with a rival entertainment's idol, Jeon Jeongguk. So imagine the stress of people meddling in his personal life and his huge secret.

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1/ A new set of #Schumann symphonies features Christian Thielemann conducting @StaatskapelleDD. As I'd not heard these works for ages, I decided to catch up with a classic set by the same orchestra.

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2/ I must confess that I'd never listened to Wolfgang Sawallisch's classic cycle before. I'd always found Schumann's symphonies stodgy and unappealing, until Sir John Eliot Gardiner's revelatory acounts stripped the scales from my ears and opened my heart to him 20 years ago.

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3/ I decided I'd have to re-listen to Gardiner. I also wanted to hear whether period performance practices had influenced more recent Schumann performances on modern orchestras, so well-regarded cycles by @nezetseguin and @kennethwoods went onto my listening list as well.

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