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Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration – The Irish Times share.google/mztjpGc2AJqT...

Wow. Picking up some regional bias here. :-)

Hope springs eternal for @tabletopmania.bsky.social

Who's your Player of the Game?

- Danny Thompson; 3-3

- Ted Kubiak; 2-2, 3 RBI, sac bunt
* GWRBI in 7th

- Dick Green; 2-3

- Vida Blue; W, 8 IP, 7 H, 2 BB, 2 ER, 5 K
* 5th pitcher in AL with 20+ wins

Wow. Best Game 7 ever?

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Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Had no idea!

Though Blyleven is way ahead of that!

I see two 20-game winners...

Thanks for your interest & support! I'm certainly excited for the 2025 WS as well as what my last 2 divisional races will reveal. Here's what the AL West schedule looks like for MIN & OAK (subject to change)

9.25
MIN (Goltz, 4-3) @ OAK (Blue, 19-7)

9.26
MIN (Blyleven, 26-8) @ Oak (Holtzman (19-14)

We've completed all games for Monday, September 24, 1973. There are only 6 days & 64 games left in the season!

A's take the opener in the final head-to-head series with the Twins, which increses their lead to 1 1/2 gms. Twins really need to take one of this series.

The fact that dogmatic religionists (of all stripes) and atheists insist on anthropomorphizing natural processes does not make that the appropriate thing to do, nor does it deprive natural processes of the possibility of a meta-consciousness the human intellect is incapable of parsing.

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So apparently that was the first 7-4 game-ending DP in World Series history. And what a thing of beauty it was! @tabletopmania.bsky.social @apbamlb1987.bsky.social @kennjdodgerblue.bsky.social @alexanderraine7.bsky.social @apbareplay.bsky.social @ohhjim.bsky.social @bloggertubbs.bsky.social

For what it's worth, after this series, each team will host an AL West sub-.400 team. A's hosting the White Sox (61-95), Twins hosting the Angels (62-94).

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Late to the party! My mother was in town. Stay tuned for an APBA-RELATED update on her. :-)

GREEN AND GOLD!!! ALL THE WAY!!!

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1875

TENACE'S 2ND HR IS A WALK-OFF IN THE 11TH GIVING THE A'S THE 6-4 WIN OVER TWINS

Twins posted 2 in the 8th to send the gm into extras. A's turned 4 DPs to keep the Twins in check. Hands w/ 3 perfect rf inns.

W: Fingers (7-3)
L: Corbin (6-7)

HR: Tenace 2 (25, 26), Mitterwald (15), Walton (2)

Who's your Player of the Game?

- Danny Walton; 1-4, HR, BB, 2 R, RBI

- Gene Tenace; 2-6, 2 HR, 2 R, 3 RBI, gidp
* Walk-off HR in 11th, after 1st inn HR started the scoring

- Bill North; 2-5, BB, R, 2 RB I
* scored go-ahead R in 11th

- George Mitterwald; 1-3, HR, 2 BB, R, RBI

Scoresheets

A’s are now 1 1/2 gms up on Twins, with 2 gms left in this head-to-head series.

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And yesterday the Mariners pulled a bases-loaded, 2-3 double play. I suppose I must have known at some level that this was technically possible, but I don't think I'd ever seen or heard tell of such a play before. Doesn't come up on my unusual plays chart!

WLB 2022 San Francisco Miners
1st Place West Coast Division

MVP: Ted Williams
BA: Ted Williams.343
HR: Mark McGwire 45
RBI: Ted Williams 142
SB: Barry Bonds 32

POY: Randy Johnson
ERA: John Wetteland 1.91
W: Don Drysdale 19
SV: Rob Nen 27
K: Randy Johnson 285

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YouTube video by Jomboy Media Dodgers almost hit grand slam, ended up with ZERO runs instead, a breakdown

A predictably brilliant breakdown from Jomboy -- it wasn't an unassisted double play, though, just a wildly unlikely one that I cannot imagine any board game could reproduce...

youtu.be/QA7NX1EiMc8?...

YouTube video by The Journal Catherine Connolly's keepie-uppies and basketball skills

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The ghost of Uecker is strong. Milwaukee in 7.

I do not. Who is it?