Author: Nathan
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Please Help My Friend With This Fundraiser
A very close friend just got all her SNAP benefits stolen. I’ve started a fundraiser to help replace the theft. Please give if you can. Reposting/signal boosting is also very much appreciated. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mj-recover-stolen-food-benefits Read more
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Where’d You Go, John DeMarsico?
EDITORIAL NOTE: As soon as I put this out, I was directed to a rumored reason for DeMarsico’s departure. My thoughts on the larger world of sports betting still stand. I am heading to Las Vegas in a few weeks. It will be my first time in Sin City. Never have I pulled a slot Read more
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Go Read Kaleb Horton
I am bad at sticking to things, at least things that are not video games or movies. I paid for this space on the internet to make myself write, to clear my head of the disease that is our atomized digital world. Yet the last thing I posted was a pithy joke about MLB having Read more
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Content Warning: Pete Rose
Rob Manfred may be making a speech in Cooperstown on behalf of a freshly inducted Pete Rose sooner rather than never. I took it upon myself to prepare some remarks for him. These words are all yours for the taking, if you want them, Rob. Today is a momentous and overdue day for the game Read more
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Reddit Gets It Right, Unfortunately
We’re over three weeks into a brand-new season of baseball and nary a new word appears on this website. So, what gives? I did not give up on this little outlet yet, but I have struggled with what to say at this moment. Every day there is some new horror on the front page of Read more
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Apologies to Bob Uecker
On January 16, 2025, the baseball community lost the beloved figure of Robert “Bob” George Uecker, a one-time fringe baseball player turned colorful broadcaster and actor. Uecker died ten days away from his 91st birthday. When I heard the news, I probably let out a sound like “aww.” A brief utterance of disappointment, but also Read more
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The Year of Luigi
Hey there. It’s been a minute. This is the part where you probably expect me to be a bit coy and rhetorically ask if anything big happened in the news while I was away. Let’s not do that. Two big things happened: the Mets signed Clay Holmes and Griffin Canning. Okay, I had to make Read more
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What Will Be Left?
On this day in 2016 I had to leave work early. I could not get anything done. I was absolutely shocked and numb. I could not believe that such a cruel and crass person ascended to the presidency. In 2024, I work from home thanks to a pandemic horribly mismanaged by the man who will Read more
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O Canada
The Mets are done, but the ride was worth it. You can read many wonderful pieces about their majestical run. I don’t have anything to say that more professional sportswriters haven’t already said. I am sad that it ended, but so glad that it happened. That about sums it up. What I’m thinking about today Read more
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The Words Escape You
I am trying to write about the last few days, and it feels like a futile endeavor. I last wrote about the supernatural, the specters and demons of history that can haunt a team. Now, it only feels appropriate to talk about the future, about possibilities. Francisco Lindor will be 37 years old in 2031, Read more