Daniel Shank Cruz
@shankcruz.bsky.social
🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes. #Mets #LGM #haiku danielshankcruz.com
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Daniel Shank Cruz
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I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
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one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
I hope that all the people who said they were going to leave NYC if Mamdani was elected actually do! The city will be a better place for the rest of us. 💙🧡
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I hope that all the people who said they were going to leave NYC if Mamdani was elected actually do! The city will be a better place for the rest of us. 💙🧡
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
Here is the #writing activity I accomplished in October: danielshankcruz.com/2025/11/02/w...
Writing Activity, October 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do som…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here is the #writing activity I accomplished in October: danielshankcruz.com/2025/11/02/w...
Ugh, and now the dark winter begins 😭😭😭
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Ugh, and now the dark winter begins 😭😭😭
This ballgame, damn.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This ballgame, damn.
BENCHES CLEARING IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
BENCHES CLEARING IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!
Game 7 living up to the hype thus far, wow.
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Game 7 living up to the hype thus far, wow.
(Grumpy old person voice): Back in my day, the home team wore white in the World Series. (I’m still rooting for the Blue Jays, but come on.)
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
(Grumpy old person voice): Back in my day, the home team wore white in the World Series. (I’m still rooting for the Blue Jays, but come on.)
I’ve been reading UniWatch since it was on Slate, and I still remember columns that I read on it more than a decade ago (the one about the Cubs batting glove Bill Buckner wore during the 1986 World Series still blows my mind), and it brought me plenty of joy over the years. I’m sad to see it go.
This one's a gut punch.
I can honestly say there would be no Beauty of a Game without UW. Kudos to Paul and Phil for what they created and have done over the years. To say they will be sorely missed is an understatement.
uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...
I can honestly say there would be no Beauty of a Game without UW. Kudos to Paul and Phil for what they created and have done over the years. To say they will be sorely missed is an understatement.
uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...
Uni Watch: 1999–2025
After a long run, Uni Watch’s coverage of athletics aesthetics is coming to a close.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’ve been reading UniWatch since it was on Slate, and I still remember columns that I read on it more than a decade ago (the one about the Cubs batting glove Bill Buckner wore during the 1986 World Series still blows my mind), and it brought me plenty of joy over the years. I’m sad to see it go.
If I were the MLB Players Association I would be looking for new leadership immediately: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Sources: Feds eye MLBPA venture over spending
Players Way was cited in an anonymous whistleblower complaint last November that triggered an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If I were the MLB Players Association I would be looking for new leadership immediately: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
I don’t care if he’s the best hitting coach in the world, the Mets should not have hired him because of who his father is 😆 www.mlb.com/news/troy-sn...
Troy Snitker set to join Mets as hitting coach (source)
NEW YORK -- The Mets made another significant staff addition on Monday, bringing on Troy Snitker as hitting coach, according to a source. The club has not confirmed the news.
Snitker, 36, will serve u...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I don’t care if he’s the best hitting coach in the world, the Mets should not have hired him because of who his father is 😆 www.mlb.com/news/troy-sn...
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Chin up, Dodgers. Being down 9 runs Canadian is only like 6 runs US. And after the tariffs, you’re only behind by like 3, 4 runs tops.
#worldseries #bluejays #dodgers #wantitall
#worldseries #bluejays #dodgers #wantitall
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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If the Blue Jays win the World Series they will be the first expansion team with 3 titles. The Mets, Marlins, Royals, and Astros* also have 2. The Mets have been to the most WS of this group (5). I guess I’m saying that although being a Mets fan can be torturous, by some measures it could be worse.
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If the Blue Jays win the World Series they will be the first expansion team with 3 titles. The Mets, Marlins, Royals, and Astros* also have 2. The Mets have been to the most WS of this group (5). I guess I’m saying that although being a Mets fan can be torturous, by some measures it could be worse.
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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Wow, what a pathetic showing by the Brewers thus far in this series. Hopefully whoever wins the ALCS puts up a better fight.
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Wow, what a pathetic showing by the Brewers thus far in this series. Hopefully whoever wins the ALCS puts up a better fight.
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Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.
That double play is a great example of why I still love watching baseball after forty years. You never know what is going to happen!
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
That double play is a great example of why I still love watching baseball after forty years. You never know what is going to happen!
I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!
October 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!