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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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Before people chime in with fan crap, I have a lot of hats. Currently I have this, Atlanta, Dodgers, Cleveland (Block C), A's, Cardinals, and Tigers. At any given time I have a good half-dozen hats in rotation and have probably owned 20-25 different team caps in recent years.
Nah. There are some I've never bought or worn, but not because of some hard or noble stand. You're not likely to see me in other NL East caps than Atlanta, or Yankees or Red Sox, but I've had some.
I have had a few -- usually Columbus Clippers for local game-going -- but I don't seem 'em out. I have an Arizona Fall League cap that I'm rather fond of (Paddlers) but it's too small so I don't really wear it.

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5 Apr
Nodding furiously at this whole article, but particularly the last paragraph. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The graf: All of this is to say that ...
The article also gets at a thing that I have mentioned often in the past but which does not make me very popular among journalists my age or older: that our understanding of how journalism works is based on a relatively transitory period in the history of American journalism.
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3 Apr
When GOPers get riled re: most things it *seems* like they're full of shit but requires some research to see exactly why. Them being full of shit about baseball, a thing I know about more than them, is a clarifying reminder of how blatantly full of shit they are from the get-go.
Their assumptions about the economic impact of things like the All-Star Game, their beliefs about MLB's racial/political orientation, both historical and current, the antitrust exemption -- they just comically have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
If you're lucky enough to see this in your own bailiwick the bad faith on their part is as plain as day. And a good reminder to never their take their bad faith on on its own terms elsewhere. It's not worthy of engagement most of the time. It's like bargaining with a child.
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2 Apr
Baseball getting called out as "woke" is the most hilarious shit I've seen in a dog's age. There is none less woke a thing than baseball this side of the Eisenhower era.
There are blue 1952 DeSoto Diplomats that are more woke than Major League Baseball.
I'm choosing to take this as a challenge.
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1 Apr
The primordial time of the mid-to-late 2000s were a golden age for blogging collectives. Most of them have gone extinct. Victims of small environmental factors like social media or large impacts from pivot-to-video or gambling #content asteroids. [cont'd]
Many of us from that world were wiped out. Others retreated to caves. Others adapted. Either way, massive upheaval was the order of the age.
From the rubble-strewn wasteland of that apocalypse emerges . . . the O.G. Big League Stew crew! With @AnswerDave reunited with @KevinKaduk at @MidwayMinute! So cool to see Dave back with 'Duk like it was the damn Bush years again! midwayminute.win
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1 Apr
I know that I'm promoting a shit-ton today. Which, given how hard I promote, is saying something. In my defense it's Opening Day, so I'm stoked. But I'm also stoked for a different reason.
When I launched this newsletter, I had a modest short term goal and a bolder longer term goal. The modest goal was that it'd provide enough money that, combined with my NBC severance, I'd be able to ride out a tough job search and not have to consider reactivating my law license.
The bolder long term goal was that it'd be my full time job forever. To that end, I set a subscriber/income goal that I felt could make that work. I pegged that goal to August 3, 2021, the anniversary of the day NBC shitcanned me.
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31 Mar
This very good story about Marcus Thames reminds me of one of the worst baseball columns I've ever read, which also featured Thames as its subject. theathletic.com/2489366/2021/0…
That column was by T.J. Simers, then of the Los Angeles Times, who decided to take the lowest of roads possible in using Thames to (I think?) make a point about the Dodgers' roster construction. latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-…
I ripped it at NBC here: mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/03/22/one…
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