marcwbaseball.bsky.social
Recovering baseball blogger.
Used to write about baseball at USS Mariner (mostly), Baseball Prospectus (rarely), and probably a few places I’ve forgotten. Love music, Seattle sports, cooking.
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Rob points out there are a ton of non-monetary benefits to team ownership that owning a chunk of an S&P 500 ETF don’t confer, but also that there are so many ancillary opportunities that come with ownership and DO have monetary impact.
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I’d say that there’s a specifically English aspect to this need to put a band or scene *against* another, but then Dig! is getting re-released, so maybe it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Anyway, just wished I gave Johansen more of an interested listen as a youth, or dug into things beyond “hot hot hot”.
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They spelled it fine. Wild that nobody corrected the person who just started calling it “Wenzday”.
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He’s right, though.
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That’s all I can think about since learning about the appointment. I don’t know if that’s sad, a sign of being too online, or a weird coping mechanism.
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Just bumbling into our own homespun canon/cosmology and I had to keep it straight AND remember the handwriting. You’re lucky.
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My first absolutely loved the idea, but made me work harder with all sorts of questions I had to answer. I had a special handwriting style (my own handwriting sucks) so it was a whole big thing. Something about a catastrophic lack of calcium, and teeth being a lynchpin of fairy ecosystem recovery.
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That’s a hell yeah from me. That, Kingfisher, Himalayan Blue…great stuff. On their own? I wouldn’t know. But as tasty harbingers of a succulent Indian meal? Undefeated.
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COYS. My first match was this crazy game. 10 goals! Pictures were on an old flip phone so I don’t have them anymore. Glad they got another win on the 10th anniversary of your 1st game.
youtu.be/e3996ZZ0gNk?...
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No, oddly, as a Tacoma native. Reminds me of studying abroad in Norway. There was this youth group on my flight over there, and I kept running into them throughout the summer - it was a Tacoma choral group, or a church choir, but I bumped into them like 5 times around the country.
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This is almost *exactly* my experience and it’s a bit uncanny. I was 12, not 13, when I visited Rothenburg.
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Yeah, that seemed staged or like this guy was playing the rube yokel with no idea what things are worth, but he couldn’t commit to the bit enough not to mention he’d checked on line. Cmon man! Say you don’t know who “Ty Cobb” is!
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Like last year’s battle over which sandstone could be the state’s official stone: Tenino or Wilkeson Sandstone?
I think I know where your sympathies lie on that question, but I’m glad it hasn’t resulted in violence…yet.
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And fandom compels me to report that I got to watch Spurs thrash Liverpool at Wembley. A result that feels lifetimes ago. It was a pandemic ago, and it was a result that crystallized a need for the Reds that they filled with Virgil Van Dijk. And the rest is history.
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Know what you mean. Visiting the old White Hart Lane was special, though I’m nowhere near the super fan you are. But seeing Spurs play at Wembley, one of those holy sites for football, was amazing. It’s not about the match, though that was great. It’s about communing with the spirit of the game.
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This only makes sense if they know what led to his nose dive. Not “think,” not “watched some ABs from early seasons,” but know. And because he wasn’t on the team until now, I think they simply can’t *know.* This is someone in the org with a hunch who might get asked some tough questions in June.
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Flow
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Wouldn’t dream of arguing that.
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It’s the Chaise longue duo that’s captivated Britain!
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Point is it’s often not about parents or schools.
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I have two kids. I was an early reader and wanted to read anything I could. My first kid was the same way and was writing (honestly not that fully-developed) books at 3. Second kid would shut down anything that smacked of teaching, and she learned to read later than 6, out of stubbornness.
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Where do you see this? Any chance they’re coming out west?
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Oh my god….
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Polvo did the same thing. Vibracobra (album version ) is one of the all-time album-opening songs. While I loved their later work, it is, for me, the definitive Polvo track.
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The new one from Sharp Pins, the new Cloakroom album (or at least the tracks that have been released), and last year‘s Chat Pile album, which is not really joy-bringing as transforming all of the ugliness of :gestures broadly: into musical form, and that has value.
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Get that bag, Mannings. This is innovation, people. Every Senator gonna have a Slumper on staff within 18mo. Manning-level insight, Manning-level charisma in dealing with constituents despite their feedback headed for the trash with pinpoint accuracy.
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Ok, not sure what this owl is. This is from the British Wildlife Centre. Northern Long Eared? I don’t know. Apparently they are common in Eastern Washington, but I’m in the West, and they don’t often cross the cascades.
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They frequent the park by our house, but I’m terrible at finding them. My daughter spotted this one, and pointed it out to me. She saw another (maybe same one?) very nearby later in the week.
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Saw a nice Barred Owl the other day a little before dusk.
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Given the character clause, should voters assume that interventions adversely impacting certain players are a moral judgment? Or is the only moral judgment in favor of the assisted team? If that’s the case, then is intervention a commentary on sports in general, almost mocking competition itself?
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Combining yhis and your next post about a vastly improved Chicago team still being bad: is this the “stickiest” awful team in the ZiPS era? Is this the team with the lowest 90% win total, or was one of the Houston tank teams lower?
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“When they go low, avocado prices go sky high.”
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Zeno’s apocalypse clock mfs
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It was. I was at a Husky bball game many years ago (watching Jaden McDaniels) and sat next to some kids from an AAU team and we were all talking about best local players ever. I threw out Dickerson and…no one knew who I was talking about. He was incredible!
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My vision when I hear the words “Peak Federal Way” is this guy. He’s been memory-holed due to injury, and McDaniel is great and all, but…this guy was amazing. Federal Way’s Brandon Roy?
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I think Repitition edges it out for me, but it’s so mood dependent; I’ll agree with you in an hour.
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Album I ended up listening to the most is probably VeeVee, but that’s not underrated to someone like you.
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Now, the album I was most excited about was Seaweed’s “Spanaway” but it didn’t quite hit for me at the time like their other stuff. Bought it the day it came out on CD and vinyl.
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Team Dresch - Personal Best
Sicko- Laugh Whike You Can Monkey Boy
Karp - Suplex
Unwound - The future of what?
Whoa, little heavy on Oly/Tumwater stuff.
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Let’s go with Jahidi White.
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For the record, I now go with The Armed - Untitled, Dead to a Dying World - Litany, Viet Cong/Preoccupations, Westkust - Last Forever, and of course Kendrick - TPaB. Another day, another list, I guess.
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I think Julien Baker is one of the most talented people in music, and someone I am 100% convinced is going to make a perfect album. Hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t always love her stuff, but I will always check it out. That all-time classic is coming someday.