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Way to go, Chicago!
blockclubchi.bsky.social Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d
Homeland Security Boss Kristi Noem was met by protesters after attending an annual Christmas tradition at Navy Pier Saturday.

“The Grinch stole Christmas but Kristi Noem stole my neighbor" read one protester's sign.

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December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Imagine being a Democratic leader who refused to endorse Mamdani, who has advocated for throwing trans people and immigrants under the bus, and who has otherwise acted like it's still 1996, and then just walking in to work today like your entire world view didn't get obliterated last night.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Quincy Trouppe

Great episode, thanks!
shoelesspodcast.bsky.social My Baseball History @shoelesspodcast.bsky.social · Oct 8
Episode 0501 is live!

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Which player is responsible for most of the video footage we have today of the Negro Leagues?

www.shoelesspodcast.com/season-five/01
October 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I loved reading this book!
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Officially an elite spitballer. Thank you ‪
@markleibovich.bsky.social for the honorific.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

@theatlantic.com #baseball #makemecommissioner #mlb
What Not to Fix About Baseball
In a new book, the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more appealing.
www.theatlantic.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Why did MLB schedule Clemente Day when over a third of the teams aren’t playing? Are other teams celebrating tomorrow?
September 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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So I've decided to do a subscription sale for the home stretch, with 25% off the annual price. I'm calling it the "Home Stretch 25% off Subscription Sale."

My refusal to read even a single marketing book saves you money!!! www.cupofcoffeenews.com/the-home-str...
Cup of Coffee Newsletter
A daily baseball, politics, entertainment, and nonsense newsletter
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I miss the old brand #CDC
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Loving this---> www.mlb.com/news/jen-paw...
Pawol to make history as MLB's first female umpire
Jen Pawol will make history this weekend as the first woman to be an umpire in a regular-season MLB game. Pawol will ump three games during this weekend’s Marlins-Braves series in Atlanta, including b...
www.mlb.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Just sad 😢
RIP Ryno
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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In today's newsletter I wrote about how I've been fighting depression lately. Nothing matters anymore and that screws with my need for order and predictability over chaos. Baseball, however, has been helping. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
All of this has put me in a pretty profound state of depression. Not just sadness or anger at the bleakness I read about in the news every day but actual mental health-level depression. I've been working with my therapist and recently he and I have figured out that it's not really the bad policies, and the outrages per se which have led me to this depressed state. It's that "nothing matters" thing. It's making it hard for me to care about anything. To be enthused about anything. To enjoy anything. Sometimes to even do anything. I feel like I'm living in the end times of a world I once thought I understood but pretty clearly don't now. I've been legitimately grieving the loss of that old world like a friend or loved one who has died. I'm someone who has always preferred order over chaos and predictability over uncertainty. I'm learning, however, that its more than just a preference. Order and predictability are deeply connected to my psyche and my mental health. I've always known that to be the case on some level but it never occurred to me that the societal chaos and disorder we're now experiencing would affect me the way a messy room, a sink full of dishes, a deviation from my routines, or a disjointed schedule might. But it has, and it has done so in far more profound ways. I was basically spiraling on Friday morning in the wake of a particularly egregious Supreme Court ruling that, once again, made it clear that we're living in an era of legal Calvinball. It was a stark reminder that even the most basic and explicit Constitutional rights mean nothing to this Court or this regime and that there is little if anything that can be done about it, at least any time soon. The only thing that saved me was that, a couple of hours after posting the newsletter, I left for Detroit to see some friends and take in Friday night's and Saturday afternoon's Twins-Tigers games. Those games helped me feel like I was living in an orderly world, at least for a couple of days. I often get distracted when I'm in ballparks. There's so much going on. There are so many people and so many novel things to look at and listen to and I'm usually with other people so there's a social component to it as well. But this weekend I paid much closer attention to the games at hand than I usually do when I'm watching in person. I chatted with Allison and our friends, of course – and, as noted up above, I engaged in some tomfoolery to get on the Jumbotron – but I also forced myself to think like an analyst or like I was actively playing the game unfolding before me as if I was running a season of "High Heat '98" on my computer or something. I didn't look at the scoreboard all that much but, rather, kept the count in the back of my mind like I was an umpire. I thought things like "he just busted him inside so now he'll go offspeed low and away." I paid close attention to the positioning of the outfielders. For innings at a time I maintained a running play-by-play in my head, as if I were Vin Scully in a one man booth. I'm sure a lot of you do that kind of thing all the time, but I usually don't when I'm in a ballpark, and it took some effort to concentrate on it. But it was worthy effort, because baseball is rooted in order. There are rules. They are enforced. There is a mathematical logic to how the proceedings in a baseball game unfold and following those proceedings required that I assume a logical and ordered mindset. There's nothing I know better or that I have known longer than how baseball works and retreating into a headspace where nothing was happening other than the baseball game in front of me had the same effect as reciting a mantra. It quieted my mind. It banished the chaos, at least for a while. It made me feel connected to something in ways I've not felt connected to anything for what feels like ages.
June 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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My guess is a higher percentage of ICE agents have criminal records than the people they are detaining.
June 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Ichiro
shoelesspodcast.bsky.social My Baseball History @shoelesspodcast.bsky.social · Jun 11
Episode 0409 is live!

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Which MLB player visited the @baseballhall.org more than any other during his playing career?

shoelesspodcast.com/season-four/09
June 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Let’s give a big welcome to the Women’s Baseball World Cup next summer!

Only the second time the tournament will be held in the US, the world's most prestigious women’s baseball event is headed to Rockford.
Rockford to host Group Stage of the Women's Baseball World Cup in 2026
Rockford has been awarded as the host city for the Group Stage of the Women's Baseball World Cup by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the WSBC and the International Women's
www.wrex.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The Milwaukee Chicks were the city's first professional women's baseball team.

Read More: https://www.tmj4.com/news/womens-history-month/the-forgotten-champions-the-story-of-the-1944-pro-baseball-team-the-milwaukee-chicks 
March 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR.

In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Trump voters aren’t very smart, and neither are Republican lawmakers.
My daughter is a data analyst for the NYU/Langone health dashboard, and the Medicaid estimates sited in the article are based on her number crunching.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Republicans’ plans for Medicaid have a political problem
GOP lawmakers expected to vote soon on slashing the insurance program for low-income people represent tens of millions reliant on it.
www.politico.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Uganda
shoelesspodcast.bsky.social My Baseball History @shoelesspodcast.bsky.social · Dec 11
Episode 0403 is live!

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What country did Ashton Lansdell visit with Kelsie Whitmore & two USWNT teammates in Dec. 2023?

www.shoelesspodcast.com/season-four/03
December 13, 2024 at 3:15 AM