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· Nov 19
We've been negligent about getting our videos uploaded, so we're fixing that today.
Let's start with a developmental match (i.e., even we have no idea what the hell is going to happen) between @kristencrossing.bsky.social's Malditos de Naguabo and the Zumbadorcitos de Vieques:
youtu.be/xfuePX4-Fj4
Let's start with a developmental match (i.e., even we have no idea what the hell is going to happen) between @kristencrossing.bsky.social's Malditos de Naguabo and the Zumbadorcitos de Vieques:
youtu.be/xfuePX4-Fj4
1907.06.01 - Zumbadorcitos de Vieques at Malditos de Naguabo
YouTube video by Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña
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November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We've been negligent about getting our videos uploaded, so we're fixing that today.
Let's start with a developmental match (i.e., even we have no idea what the hell is going to happen) between @kristencrossing.bsky.social's Malditos de Naguabo and the Zumbadorcitos de Vieques:
youtu.be/xfuePX4-Fj4
Let's start with a developmental match (i.e., even we have no idea what the hell is going to happen) between @kristencrossing.bsky.social's Malditos de Naguabo and the Zumbadorcitos de Vieques:
youtu.be/xfuePX4-Fj4
TONIGHT:
When we counterprogram the World Series, we want to bring the heat.
So it's #LNPAfterDark tonight, which means @nsmckinnon.bsky.social and Louisa can swear and read the more risqué ads they've found in old-timey newspapers. Sound good?
fun begins at 8:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
When we counterprogram the World Series, we want to bring the heat.
So it's #LNPAfterDark tonight, which means @nsmckinnon.bsky.social and Louisa can swear and read the more risqué ads they've found in old-timey newspapers. Sound good?
fun begins at 8:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
TONIGHT:
When we counterprogram the World Series, we want to bring the heat.
So it's #LNPAfterDark tonight, which means @nsmckinnon.bsky.social and Louisa can swear and read the more risqué ads they've found in old-timey newspapers. Sound good?
fun begins at 8:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
When we counterprogram the World Series, we want to bring the heat.
So it's #LNPAfterDark tonight, which means @nsmckinnon.bsky.social and Louisa can swear and read the more risqué ads they've found in old-timey newspapers. Sound good?
fun begins at 8:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
TONIGHT:
You could watch the World Series, sure—or you could take in a legitimate baseball product!
The 🧭 #Navegadores, fresh off another incredible season, take on the 🐐 #Chupacabras in the first round of the LNP playoffs!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
You could watch the World Series, sure—or you could take in a legitimate baseball product!
The 🧭 #Navegadores, fresh off another incredible season, take on the 🐐 #Chupacabras in the first round of the LNP playoffs!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
TONIGHT:
You could watch the World Series, sure—or you could take in a legitimate baseball product!
The 🧭 #Navegadores, fresh off another incredible season, take on the 🐐 #Chupacabras in the first round of the LNP playoffs!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
You could watch the World Series, sure—or you could take in a legitimate baseball product!
The 🧭 #Navegadores, fresh off another incredible season, take on the 🐐 #Chupacabras in the first round of the LNP playoffs!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
TONIGHT:
It's the 1907 Partido de Campeones! Come watch the best hundred players in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña fight it out.
Does 🔴 Betances take it this year? Or will it be 🔵 Hostos?
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
It's the 1907 Partido de Campeones! Come watch the best hundred players in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña fight it out.
Does 🔴 Betances take it this year? Or will it be 🔵 Hostos?
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
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We are the writers, streamers, and other workers who present to you 150 years of baseball in a liberated Puerto Rico.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
TONIGHT:
It's the 1907 Partido de Campeones! Come watch the best hundred players in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña fight it out.
Does 🔴 Betances take it this year? Or will it be 🔵 Hostos?
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
It's the 1907 Partido de Campeones! Come watch the best hundred players in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña fight it out.
Does 🔴 Betances take it this year? Or will it be 🔵 Hostos?
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
After the 6th inning:
🧭 Navegadores 2
🦜 Cotorras 0
Despite a lot of Naguabo sound and fury, other than 🇵🇷 Benji Valdez’s two-run single, the Naves are hanging on to a thin lead. Can they hold on?
We’ve got a poetry reading in less than an inning! Hop in!
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
🧭 Navegadores 2
🦜 Cotorras 0
Despite a lot of Naguabo sound and fury, other than 🇵🇷 Benji Valdez’s two-run single, the Naves are hanging on to a thin lead. Can they hold on?
We’ve got a poetry reading in less than an inning! Hop in!
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
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International Waters: Game 86, vs. Cotorras de Río Grande (51-39)
www.twitch.tv
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
After the 6th inning:
🧭 Navegadores 2
🦜 Cotorras 0
Despite a lot of Naguabo sound and fury, other than 🇵🇷 Benji Valdez’s two-run single, the Naves are hanging on to a thin lead. Can they hold on?
We’ve got a poetry reading in less than an inning! Hop in!
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
🧭 Navegadores 2
🦜 Cotorras 0
Despite a lot of Naguabo sound and fury, other than 🇵🇷 Benji Valdez’s two-run single, the Naves are hanging on to a thin lead. Can they hold on?
We’ve got a poetry reading in less than an inning! Hop in!
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
9/26 (tonight!):
We couldn't get the all-lefty lineup we wanted, but the 🧭 Navegadores nonetheless welcome the reigning champion 🦜 Cotorras to town.
Commercials! Poetry! Fun with LNP history! And more, courtesy of Louisa and @nsmckinnon.bsky.social!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
We couldn't get the all-lefty lineup we wanted, but the 🧭 Navegadores nonetheless welcome the reigning champion 🦜 Cotorras to town.
Commercials! Poetry! Fun with LNP history! And more, courtesy of Louisa and @nsmckinnon.bsky.social!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
LNPGaceta - Twitch
We are the writers, streamers, and other workers who present to you 150 years of baseball in a liberated Puerto Rico.
twitch.tv
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
9/26 (tonight!):
We couldn't get the all-lefty lineup we wanted, but the 🧭 Navegadores nonetheless welcome the reigning champion 🦜 Cotorras to town.
Commercials! Poetry! Fun with LNP history! And more, courtesy of Louisa and @nsmckinnon.bsky.social!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
We couldn't get the all-lefty lineup we wanted, but the 🧭 Navegadores nonetheless welcome the reigning champion 🦜 Cotorras to town.
Commercials! Poetry! Fun with LNP history! And more, courtesy of Louisa and @nsmckinnon.bsky.social!
fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
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We’re allowed our little Olympic team and our flag-covered cars and our fried plantains, so long as we remember our place and express our gratitude when the Americans come to town to indulge their national adolescence.
July 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
We’re allowed our little Olympic team and our flag-covered cars and our fried plantains, so long as we remember our place and express our gratitude when the Americans come to town to indulge their national adolescence.
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If there is one thing that lights the revolutionary fire within me to burn hot and sky blue, it is that this fucking cesspool of a country has forced me and my people to scrape and bow and apologize and be *proud* of our “kindness,” which is really the servile character that’s been forced on us.
July 3, 2024 at 1:38 PM
If there is one thing that lights the revolutionary fire within me to burn hot and sky blue, it is that this fucking cesspool of a country has forced me and my people to scrape and bow and apologize and be *proud* of our “kindness,” which is really the servile character that’s been forced on us.
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He had to swallow his pride in two languages, to carry the baseball reputation of an entire country on his back for a good portion of his career, and yet he held himself to a higher standard than every suburban white boy raised to be a top 100 prospect who pretends like no one ever believed in them.
July 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
He had to swallow his pride in two languages, to carry the baseball reputation of an entire country on his back for a good portion of his career, and yet he held himself to a higher standard than every suburban white boy raised to be a top 100 prospect who pretends like no one ever believed in them.
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Clemente got routinely slagged off as a hypochondriac, malingerer, layabout, time bomb, and everything else by a sports press that didn’t know how to deal with an Afro-PR player who was incredible on the field and had the audacity to be proud of it, and yet he learned to distinguish friend from foe.
July 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Clemente got routinely slagged off as a hypochondriac, malingerer, layabout, time bomb, and everything else by a sports press that didn’t know how to deal with an Afro-PR player who was incredible on the field and had the audacity to be proud of it, and yet he learned to distinguish friend from foe.
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This—from David Maraniss’ bio of Clemente—is why he’s the GOAT to me.
Much of this book is devoted to talking about Clemente’s unique willingness to apologize, and I think about how now people let pro athletes off the hook in a way they don’t any other profession, while pretending they’re like us.
Much of this book is devoted to talking about Clemente’s unique willingness to apologize, and I think about how now people let pro athletes off the hook in a way they don’t any other profession, while pretending they’re like us.
July 3, 2024 at 1:32 PM
This—from David Maraniss’ bio of Clemente—is why he’s the GOAT to me.
Much of this book is devoted to talking about Clemente’s unique willingness to apologize, and I think about how now people let pro athletes off the hook in a way they don’t any other profession, while pretending they’re like us.
Much of this book is devoted to talking about Clemente’s unique willingness to apologize, and I think about how now people let pro athletes off the hook in a way they don’t any other profession, while pretending they’re like us.
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Alt text for the rest of that second page, from David Maraniss’ Clemente bio, which I finished yesterday after months of being unwilling to get to the sad part.
Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
July 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Alt text for the rest of that second page, from David Maraniss’ Clemente bio, which I finished yesterday after months of being unwilling to get to the sad part.
Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
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I think a lot about how Clemente had the most Puerto Rican death a ballplayer can have: so busy trying to do something no one else was doing that he didn’t stop to think that he was getting on a colossal death trap—because he cared more about Nicaraguan victims of an earthquake than his own life.
July 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I think a lot about how Clemente had the most Puerto Rican death a ballplayer can have: so busy trying to do something no one else was doing that he didn’t stop to think that he was getting on a colossal death trap—because he cared more about Nicaraguan victims of an earthquake than his own life.
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Didn’t know this article existed until today, but this is the exact quality that makes Roberto Clemente my GOAT. He not only sought to be the best damn baseball player of his era, and achieved that (argue with your nearest wall), but to be a positive influence on the world. sabr.org/journal/arti...
Roberto Clemente: Baseball Rebel – Society for American Baseball Research
sabr.org
September 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Didn’t know this article existed until today, but this is the exact quality that makes Roberto Clemente my GOAT. He not only sought to be the best damn baseball player of his era, and achieved that (argue with your nearest wall), but to be a positive influence on the world. sabr.org/journal/arti...
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An entire life, on the diamond and off it, spent reminding us of one of the most immutable truths of the universe:
When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Happy Roberto Clemente Day.
When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Happy Roberto Clemente Day.
September 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM
An entire life, on the diamond and off it, spent reminding us of one of the most immutable truths of the universe:
When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Happy Roberto Clemente Day.
When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Happy Roberto Clemente Day.
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Hell, I’ll probably have taught that guy, too.
All of which is to say—some things have undoubtedly gotten better, some things have perhaps gotten worse, but if #21 means anything to me, it’s that you can never stop thinking about how you, with your specific gifts, can make the world better.
All of which is to say—some things have undoubtedly gotten better, some things have perhaps gotten worse, but if #21 means anything to me, it’s that you can never stop thinking about how you, with your specific gifts, can make the world better.
June 20, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Hell, I’ll probably have taught that guy, too.
All of which is to say—some things have undoubtedly gotten better, some things have perhaps gotten worse, but if #21 means anything to me, it’s that you can never stop thinking about how you, with your specific gifts, can make the world better.
All of which is to say—some things have undoubtedly gotten better, some things have perhaps gotten worse, but if #21 means anything to me, it’s that you can never stop thinking about how you, with your specific gifts, can make the world better.
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And now we live in a world where Random White Guy #2705 will probably have more opportunities to state his (often-abhorrent) values on camera by the time he gets drafted in the sixth round than Roberto Clemente did for most of his career as, again, the greatest RF of his era. (Argue with a wall.)
June 20, 2023 at 11:01 AM
And now we live in a world where Random White Guy #2705 will probably have more opportunities to state his (often-abhorrent) values on camera by the time he gets drafted in the sixth round than Roberto Clemente did for most of his career as, again, the greatest RF of his era. (Argue with a wall.)
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But most of all what I think about is that Clemente could’ve been satisfied with being the greatest right fielder of his era, and perhaps of all time, and a transformative player for his Pirates, and instead saw that as a starting point to keep speaking out about the things he had to think about.
June 20, 2023 at 10:56 AM
But most of all what I think about is that Clemente could’ve been satisfied with being the greatest right fielder of his era, and perhaps of all time, and a transformative player for his Pirates, and instead saw that as a starting point to keep speaking out about the things he had to think about.
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Bowie Kuhn, who wasn’t exactly known for his warm and fuzzy feelings towards Black players, said of him that “he had a touch of royalty,” which I think is what you say when you see a man you consider lesser respectfully asking for and embodying the dignity to which he is entitled for being a person.
June 20, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Bowie Kuhn, who wasn’t exactly known for his warm and fuzzy feelings towards Black players, said of him that “he had a touch of royalty,” which I think is what you say when you see a man you consider lesser respectfully asking for and embodying the dignity to which he is entitled for being a person.
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A man who didn’t forget the rest of the world when he made it. If he had, he might still be with us today, instead of having his number retired across Nicaraguan baseball.
A devoted father, husband, and a Marine, and all that won him was, as my father said, people complaining that he never smiled.
A devoted father, husband, and a Marine, and all that won him was, as my father said, people complaining that he never smiled.
June 20, 2023 at 10:47 AM
A man who didn’t forget the rest of the world when he made it. If he had, he might still be with us today, instead of having his number retired across Nicaraguan baseball.
A devoted father, husband, and a Marine, and all that won him was, as my father said, people complaining that he never smiled.
A devoted father, husband, and a Marine, and all that won him was, as my father said, people complaining that he never smiled.
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This is a man who fought off coaches and executives who wanted to call him “Bob.” (There’s trading cards with that name on it at the Hall of Fame.) A man from whom the simple act of asking a blessing from his parents on camera, in Spanish, on winning World Series MVP, was something akin to radical.
June 20, 2023 at 10:43 AM
This is a man who fought off coaches and executives who wanted to call him “Bob.” (There’s trading cards with that name on it at the Hall of Fame.) A man from whom the simple act of asking a blessing from his parents on camera, in Spanish, on winning World Series MVP, was something akin to radical.
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It’s nothing new, really. The Pirates of Clemente’s day actively sought out talented Black and Afro-Latino players, and those players would make them one of the most feared teams of the ‘60s and ‘70s, but you try telling white Pittsburghers that. Especially in the ‘50s, when Clemente broke through.
June 20, 2023 at 10:39 AM
It’s nothing new, really. The Pirates of Clemente’s day actively sought out talented Black and Afro-Latino players, and those players would make them one of the most feared teams of the ‘60s and ‘70s, but you try telling white Pittsburghers that. Especially in the ‘50s, when Clemente broke through.
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Because if you might have a little Taíno or a little Yoruba in your DNA, you can’t be racist now, right?
This falls apart if you think about it for a second, but that’s the thing: it’s supposed to be a talisman against ever having to think.
Well, Clemente didn’t get a chance to not think about it.
This falls apart if you think about it for a second, but that’s the thing: it’s supposed to be a talisman against ever having to think.
Well, Clemente didn’t get a chance to not think about it.
June 20, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Because if you might have a little Taíno or a little Yoruba in your DNA, you can’t be racist now, right?
This falls apart if you think about it for a second, but that’s the thing: it’s supposed to be a talisman against ever having to think.
Well, Clemente didn’t get a chance to not think about it.
This falls apart if you think about it for a second, but that’s the thing: it’s supposed to be a talisman against ever having to think.
Well, Clemente didn’t get a chance to not think about it.
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For most of my life there’s been a pretty nasty undercurrent in how white Puerto Ricans think of ourselves.
Our way of not discussing, or even thinking, about racism is to take the history of violence perpetrated on Indigenous and African people and say “well, we’re a little bit of everything.”
Our way of not discussing, or even thinking, about racism is to take the history of violence perpetrated on Indigenous and African people and say “well, we’re a little bit of everything.”
June 20, 2023 at 10:27 AM
For most of my life there’s been a pretty nasty undercurrent in how white Puerto Ricans think of ourselves.
Our way of not discussing, or even thinking, about racism is to take the history of violence perpetrated on Indigenous and African people and say “well, we’re a little bit of everything.”
Our way of not discussing, or even thinking, about racism is to take the history of violence perpetrated on Indigenous and African people and say “well, we’re a little bit of everything.”
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Me being me, you know I’ll post about Clemente.
“I am Puerto Rican. I am Black and I am between the walls. So anything that I do first, it would be reflected on me because I’m Black, and second, it would be reflected on me because I am Puerto Rican.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEH5nxSoKc
“I am Puerto Rican. I am Black and I am between the walls. So anything that I do first, it would be reflected on me because I’m Black, and second, it would be reflected on me because I am Puerto Rican.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEH5nxSoKc
June 20, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Me being me, you know I’ll post about Clemente.
“I am Puerto Rican. I am Black and I am between the walls. So anything that I do first, it would be reflected on me because I’m Black, and second, it would be reflected on me because I am Puerto Rican.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEH5nxSoKc
“I am Puerto Rican. I am Black and I am between the walls. So anything that I do first, it would be reflected on me because I’m Black, and second, it would be reflected on me because I am Puerto Rican.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEH5nxSoKc