Amanda Lane Cumming
@amandalc.bsky.social
I write about baseball. Lookout Landing alum. 2021 SABR Award Finalist. I read a lot of old newspapers. Can solve a Rubik’s Cube. She/Her. Aries ☀️ Aquarius 🌙 Cancer ⬆️ Tacoman
Newsletter on all things PNW baseball history: https://www.nwbaseballhistory.com
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Amanda Lane Cumming
@amandalc.bsky.social
· Sep 25
A Brief History of How the West Was Won
From 19 long years of frustration to a 24-year drought, a celebration of Seattle Mariners division championships.
www.nwbaseballhistory.com
Had so much fun winning the West last night I went back and relived the other three times the Mariners have won the American League West Division Championship. It's a brief history, but a fun history!
I also love this picture so much, there was no question which one would be the main photo!
I also love this picture so much, there was no question which one would be the main photo!
Coffee. I thought it was very cliched and dumb that Seattle was so caffeinated and I refused to participate in coffee culture on principle.
(I didn‘t buy coffee until I was almost 30, and didn’t drink it regularly until after kid #1 was born, now I can’t survive without it. It’s a slippery slope!!)
(I didn‘t buy coffee until I was almost 30, and didn’t drink it regularly until after kid #1 was born, now I can’t survive without it. It’s a slippery slope!!)
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Coffee. I thought it was very cliched and dumb that Seattle was so caffeinated and I refused to participate in coffee culture on principle.
(I didn‘t buy coffee until I was almost 30, and didn’t drink it regularly until after kid #1 was born, now I can’t survive without it. It’s a slippery slope!!)
(I didn‘t buy coffee until I was almost 30, and didn’t drink it regularly until after kid #1 was born, now I can’t survive without it. It’s a slippery slope!!)
Every sentence of this article made me scream in a bad, bad way. This is the most BookTok-iest shit I’ve ever read.
It’s just so wild…romance has been the best-selling type of books for forever and people seriously come in all the time like “Let’s reinvent the wheel, except make it terrible!”
It’s just so wild…romance has been the best-selling type of books for forever and people seriously come in all the time like “Let’s reinvent the wheel, except make it terrible!”
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Every sentence of this article made me scream in a bad, bad way. This is the most BookTok-iest shit I’ve ever read.
It’s just so wild…romance has been the best-selling type of books for forever and people seriously come in all the time like “Let’s reinvent the wheel, except make it terrible!”
It’s just so wild…romance has been the best-selling type of books for forever and people seriously come in all the time like “Let’s reinvent the wheel, except make it terrible!”
7 year old is thrilled with the MLS calendar change because Minnesota United won’t like it. He’s so good at holding sports grudges already ♥️
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
7 year old is thrilled with the MLS calendar change because Minnesota United won’t like it. He’s so good at holding sports grudges already ♥️
The worst thing you can tell me to do is "Just write a sentence or two to tie this up." Bro. I'll either be paralyzed at writing one sentence for months, or I'll write 800 sentences. I have absolutely zero ability to be normal in that situation.
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The worst thing you can tell me to do is "Just write a sentence or two to tie this up." Bro. I'll either be paralyzed at writing one sentence for months, or I'll write 800 sentences. I have absolutely zero ability to be normal in that situation.
Oh good. Here come Yankee fans to be assholes in random people’s mentions. Just be happy your guy won!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oh good. Here come Yankee fans to be assholes in random people’s mentions. Just be happy your guy won!!
Aaron Judge is going to get booed so hard in Seattle next year. It’s gonna be amazing.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Aaron Judge is going to get booed so hard in Seattle next year. It’s gonna be amazing.
*Extremely Ichiro voice* Who the fuck is Aaron Judge?
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
*Extremely Ichiro voice* Who the fuck is Aaron Judge?
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I won’t remember a single thing Aaron Judge did this year, but I’ll be talking about Cal Raleigh’s season forever.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I won’t remember a single thing Aaron Judge did this year, but I’ll be talking about Cal Raleigh’s season forever.
Well, it’s more motivation for next year. You know athletes love the whole “Nobody thought we could do it/everyone was against us” stuff. The Mariners are gonna have a big ole motivation board in the clubhouse next year!
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Well, it’s more motivation for next year. You know athletes love the whole “Nobody thought we could do it/everyone was against us” stuff. The Mariners are gonna have a big ole motivation board in the clubhouse next year!
I’m sorry to say I’m mostly rooting for Cal to win MVP because otherwise the discourse may kill me. So I’m just rooting for life here.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I’m sorry to say I’m mostly rooting for Cal to win MVP because otherwise the discourse may kill me. So I’m just rooting for life here.
As a former 15 year old girl, I’m the same age as Britney Spears and Anna Kournikova and I remember all the stuff people said about them on tv, sports radio, and newspapers, full mainstream. It was gross then and now, and I don’t really have a point, just, yeah, you're still a child when you’re 15.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As a former 15 year old girl, I’m the same age as Britney Spears and Anna Kournikova and I remember all the stuff people said about them on tv, sports radio, and newspapers, full mainstream. It was gross then and now, and I don’t really have a point, just, yeah, you're still a child when you’re 15.
I just want to share that my hair looks fantastic right now, just one of those moments when the curls decode to behave perfectly. So of course this happens on a day when it’s raining buckets and I have to leave my house. RIP to my perfect curls, I hope you decide to show up again someday.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I just want to share that my hair looks fantastic right now, just one of those moments when the curls decode to behave perfectly. So of course this happens on a day when it’s raining buckets and I have to leave my house. RIP to my perfect curls, I hope you decide to show up again someday.
Since it’s MVP Day, I naturally thought back to that time when Alex Rodriguez didn’t win in 1996 because a Seattle writer voted for Ken Griffey Jr instead and justified it because Alex did the false modesty “I‘m just going out there and doing my best, but the real MVP is my veteran teammate”.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Since it’s MVP Day, I naturally thought back to that time when Alex Rodriguez didn’t win in 1996 because a Seattle writer voted for Ken Griffey Jr instead and justified it because Alex did the false modesty “I‘m just going out there and doing my best, but the real MVP is my veteran teammate”.
Just keep going outside and taking pictures of the cloudy sky in the vain hope that a pretty color will break through somewhere. Alas 😔
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Just keep going outside and taking pictures of the cloudy sky in the vain hope that a pretty color will break through somewhere. Alas 😔
It's strange for me to say something nice about Bellevue, but this library? I love it. I spent a lot of my life there, sitting down in the aisles and reading books straight from the shelf, studying, writing, researching. It always felt like such a magical place.
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
'A place where you feel welcome': King County Library's biggest branch turns 100
What began as a humble collection of 300 primarily discarded books in 1925 has since grown to become the biggest branch within the King County Library System.
www.seattletimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's strange for me to say something nice about Bellevue, but this library? I love it. I spent a lot of my life there, sitting down in the aisles and reading books straight from the shelf, studying, writing, researching. It always felt like such a magical place.
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Oh good. It's time for the Annual Scott Boras Stand Up Comedy Festival.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Oh good. It's time for the Annual Scott Boras Stand Up Comedy Festival.
Monday on a Wednesday is better than Monday on a Monday, but I’m still going to need all the coffee.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Monday on a Wednesday is better than Monday on a Monday, but I’m still going to need all the coffee.
I’m really sad there are too many clouds to see more pretty sky lights. It’s very unfair. The one time I don’t want clouds!!
The only way the weather can make it up to me is by snowing a lot this winter.
The only way the weather can make it up to me is by snowing a lot this winter.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m really sad there are too many clouds to see more pretty sky lights. It’s very unfair. The one time I don’t want clouds!!
The only way the weather can make it up to me is by snowing a lot this winter.
The only way the weather can make it up to me is by snowing a lot this winter.
Very faint without a camera, but hey! Still exciting to “see” the aurora!
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Very faint without a camera, but hey! Still exciting to “see” the aurora!
It’s really wild to read about what people got paid for articles and stories in magazines in olden times, and it’s way, way more than anyone gets paid now.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It’s really wild to read about what people got paid for articles and stories in magazines in olden times, and it’s way, way more than anyone gets paid now.
The Wreck of the Seattle Pilots
Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Wreck of the Seattle Pilots
I like the Rookie of the Year award because the winner is either a future Hall of Famer, or some guy you’re never going to hear about again until you play Remember Some Guys. Anyway, salute to Kyle Lewis, we’ll never forget you.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I like the Rookie of the Year award because the winner is either a future Hall of Famer, or some guy you’re never going to hear about again until you play Remember Some Guys. Anyway, salute to Kyle Lewis, we’ll never forget you.
Just finished reading my 69th book of the year, so you can’t say I haven’t accomplished anything nice in 2025.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just finished reading my 69th book of the year, so you can’t say I haven’t accomplished anything nice in 2025.
I swear I never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald until several years ago and now it’s like a national holiday, it may be the real reason why we don’t have school today.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I swear I never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald until several years ago and now it’s like a national holiday, it may be the real reason why we don’t have school today.
I have a weird habit of scheduling kids doctors and dentist appointments early AF on Monday mornings and I always hate it when we’re getting ready to go and swear I won’t do it anymore, but it’s the best once it’s done, so yeah, I’m gonna keep doing it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have a weird habit of scheduling kids doctors and dentist appointments early AF on Monday mornings and I always hate it when we’re getting ready to go and swear I won’t do it anymore, but it’s the best once it’s done, so yeah, I’m gonna keep doing it.