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Mar 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
With my first pick in the 2020 New Wave Song draft, I select Modern English's "I Melt WIth You."
No. 2: DavidPaulW — Tainted Love, Soft Cell
No. 3: Habitual Curve-Flattener — Always Something There to Remind Me, Naked Eyes
No. 4: Buckscience — Don’t Change, INXS
No. 5: Stephane Ethier — Ceremony, New Order
Mar 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
OK, came upon another remarkable sign-stealing story. In 1923, apparently, Branch Rickey as manager of the Cardinals came up with a full system for stealing catcher signs and relaying those signs to hitters. It's unclear how he did it, but it was apparently effective 1/
Rickey wanted Rogers Hornsby to take part in the scheme. Hornsby was perhaps the most unlikable player in baseball history and was not above cheating, but he wanted nothing to do with this. He told Rickey to leave him alone. 2/
Dec 3, 2019 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Little things I love about baseball: that the pitcher has to give the actual baseball to the manager when taken out.
That coaches and managers wear the uniform. #LittleBaseballThings
