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150 years of baseball, all in one place: a Puerto Rico free since the Grito de Lares. Powered by Out of the Park Baseball.
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Q: What is the LNP?

A: it's an #OOTP #baseball league, set in a Puerto Rico freed in the 1868 Grito de Lares—which in our world failed more or less instantly.

The Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña began play in 1871, and soon became its world's best baseball league.

It's our job to tell its stories.
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If, by the grace of God and the kindness of strangers, we hit our goal—my current triviathon record of $3,317—I will select one random donor and, during the fundraiser, dramatically read a poem they choose.

So get it done! Five days left to make it happen!
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1st Annual NSP Fundraiser! – No Substitutions, Please
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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With five days left until our fundraiser, and despite Louisa's and my best efforts, we're still not where we want to be.

So we're busting out the big guns.

For each new organization you pledge for, I'll post a Clark pic.
For each new state, I'll post a Minnie pic.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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One week left! We've added another org, another state, and another few dozen dollars.

Will you be the first from your state? Seven days until Louisa and I compete to answer 66 trivia questions and—hopefully—raise lots of money for food banks across the States!
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Gente, if you tried to donate overnight, we ran into some technical difficulties with those dastardly WPForms and, as a result, did not receive your kind entry.

Could we trouble you to try again?

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November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Day 5:
I'm sure there are English words that express my gratitude, but it's late, I'm tired, and I don't have them just now.

This is wonderful—but we'd have to get all 66 questions right for that, and I want to get food banks as much money as possible.

So help me do that!
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Day 4: I know I speak for my co-host when I say we are blown away by the incredible generosity our donors have shown.

I do *not,* however, speak for her when I say that I would really like to catch up to her lead!

Help me get a little closer, won't you? Pledge here:
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November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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You know, I expected to see a bit of a jump in Day 2.

I did not expect to see this. Our potential max is up to nearly $700, before matching!

So why not join us? Just twelve days until Louisa and I go head-to-head to raise money for local food banks across the US:
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November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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ANNOUNCING:
The 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Thanksgiving Fundraiser!

Louisa and I will go head-to-head answering 66 trivia questions. We're asking people to pledge money for their local food banks for each one we get right.

Want to participate? Check out the form:
forms.gle/WSbvEkrJACxA...
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Plus, in the spirit of @adapalmer.bsky.social, I'm matching the first $500 in donations.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up, pledge some money, and in two weeks from today you can have an absolute blast watching two nerds get outrageously competitive about food trivia!
ANNOUNCING:
The 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Thanksgiving Fundraiser!

Louisa and I will go head-to-head answering 66 trivia questions. We're asking people to pledge money for their local food banks for each one we get right.

Want to participate? Check out the form:
forms.gle/WSbvEkrJACxA...
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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By the end of Day 1, our wonderful donors have pledged a potential max of almost $200 for food banks in their areas—and that's before any matching we do!

Join us! 13 days left until Louisa and I go head to head to help feed people this Thanksgiving:
forms.gle/VtgTXMHooaY8...

Details below!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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:

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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
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
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 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
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 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
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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
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!
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International Waters: Game 86, vs. Cotorras de Río Grande (51-39)
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September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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
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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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September 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
July 3, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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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.
July 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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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
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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
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September 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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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.
September 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM