@retiredbaumer.bsky.social
Retired after 43 years as AP sports writer. Great memories fading with old age. Studiously avoiding politics for my mental health.
Recommended reading on this NFL Sunday. It’s insidious and destroying so many lives.
12.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmm. Leaves only one team to hate
11.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Gotta love this city…
10.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lived there for 23 years before leaving but this is a reason I still love that city
10.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Moving 1,200 miles in the middle of Armageddon is a great late-life adventure
08.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve got a nephew here with about 20 rifles. I think I can hide there if necessary, despite my political differences with him. I used to babysit him for Christ’s sake
08.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good time to reveal that we are selling our house in this redneck corner of Oregon (more like Idaho) and moving back to Arizona - to Tucson!
08.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0History is made
06.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.
06.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 3517 🔁 1056 💬 100 📌 116Glad I didn’t have to write this one. Although I probably did.,.
05.10.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And there’s this…
05.10.2025 23:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Boy, losses don’t look much uglier than that Cardinals one
05.10.2025 23:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If, and it’s a big if I know, I ever was in position to score a breakaway touchdown, I would run through the damn end zone and never drop the ball until I got home
05.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0…one bad pitch last night, one bad throw today…
05.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Well. That was an all-time Cardinal way to give up a td
05.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even if they are individually nice. Collectively they are evil. And super rich. With a nonhuman leading off
05.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A "The Far Side" comic. A female chimp sits on a branch, picking through the fur of a male chimp beside her in the branch. She says, "Well, well -- another blonde hair. -- Conducting a little more "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
Don't worry, she loved this comic.
RIP Dr. Jane Goodall 🤎
dogs sitting in a trashed room: "thank god you are home, look what antifa did"
29.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 669 🔁 139 💬 16 📌 1I am quite pleased that the U.S. is getting its ass handed to it in front of all those embarrassing ‘fans’ and in front of the most embarrassing man on the planet #rydercup
27.09.2025 20:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Everything Trump touches turns to shit US Ryder Cup edition
27.09.2025 00:42 — 👍 214 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 3Whew.
26.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0True. But the eyes look just like mine did in the 80s
25.09.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s perfect
25.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A ways to go to catch (pun intended) Larry Fitzgerald (21 QBs) but he’s off to a great start
25.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0add stairs to the long list of things that confuse and scare the president of the united states
25.09.2025 00:21 — 👍 1327 🔁 222 💬 62 📌 16He’d do post-game interviews at his locker with a beer in one hand and cigarette in the other. One of a kind
24.09.2025 18:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02 no-brainer first ballot selections
24.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Witnessed this first hand. Could not agree more. A breed apart
22.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will not listen to one word out of that asshat’s mouth. Same with Stephen A.
22.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
