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John Hickey

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Writer with long stints covering the A’s, the Mariners, then the A’s again. Freelancing now, and not just in sports. Reader, cook, terrible gardener (when forced into it), equally poor house cleaner. Here in part because Elon Musk set Twitter aflame.

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Latest posts by jhickey3.bsky.social on Bluesky

Warriors-Sours As good a November game as you are likely to see. Terrific game and Warrior win

15.11.2025 05:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't speak for all of California, but in filling out my ballot today, the only vote was up or down on Prop. 50. No other state issues. No other county (Alameda) or city or regional issues.
Just Prop. 50
The easiest vote ever. Here's hoping for Yes to win by a landslide.

03.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Simply spectacular seven games to end the season.
Terrific World Series.

02.11.2025 04:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You have to respect the amount of baseball on Bluesky tonight.
Great to see.
And now we see Clayton Kershaw stirring.
Wow

02.11.2025 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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02.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still crazy after all these innings … that seem like years

02.11.2025 03:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s Ernie Clement gotta do to get a hit?

02.11.2025 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yamamoto, then HBP
Get me rewrite … again

02.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Miguel Rojas?
Really?
Baseball surprises never end.

02.11.2025 03:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Game 7 is upon us.
A great series keeps on keeping on.
Who will be Mr. November?

01.11.2025 03:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this. A real two-way player!

31.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Three pitches? What a thing. Who would have guessed?
This World Series keeps drawing you in.

30.10.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That will stand as one of the sickest double plays in MLB postseason history. Glove, wall, great throw then outs at home and third.
Gotta love playoffs baseball

14.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

15 innings to erase 24 years.
Amazing game, that was.

11.10.2025 05:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good postseason baseball is such a pleasure.

11.10.2025 04:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome to our little place of (relative) sanity

01.10.2025 03:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nuts, I say. Just nuts.

28.09.2025 06:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Keep some churros in reserve

28.09.2025 05:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Decent sized earthquake in the East Bay

22.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My wife and I were checking into a hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Checking in at the same time right next to us: Hunter S Thompson.

19.07.2025 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This home run non-derby is more fun than I might have thought

16.07.2025 03:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's too bad that his death comes just a few weeks before his scheduled formal induction into the Hall of Fame, but at least he learned he'd been selected to join the Cooperstown crew a few months ago.
RIP to one of the greats.

28.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A good guy, he not only gave the A's a lefty presence against the right-handed bats of Canseco, McGwire, Henderson, Carney Lansford, and, in the second half of 1989, Rickey Henderson. That club had great team chemistry, and Parker, who'd learned chemistry from Willie Stargell, helped bring it out.

28.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

His best power years were behind him at that point, but, never one to take a back seat to anyone, during one batting practice he challenged Canseco to a HR contest. The catch? Parker, a lefty, would bat right. Canseco, a righty, would bat left. It drew a big crowd. Both guys went deep multiple times

28.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sorry to hear of the passing of Dave Parker. The Cobra played two seasons with the A's, 1988-89, the birth of the Bash Brothers when the A's won a combined 203 games & the 1989 World Series. He hit 34 homers those two seasons, fourth behind Mark McGwire (65), Jose Canseco (59) & Dave Henderson (39).

28.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was 10 years ago that the Orange Menace said he'd provide proof that Melania got to the US legally. It would come in 2 weeks. 10 years.
Forgive me if I don't make much of Trump saying he'll make a decision on war with Iran in 2 weeks.
"2 weeks" is his way of saying, "go away kid, you bother me."

19.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that Kristi Noem and her minions and goons were lying when she and they said Sen. Alex Padilla didn’t identify himself before they threw him to the ground and handcuffed him.

12.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Were they making churros?

08.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When you wish upon a star-sized churro …

27.05.2025 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course it would be. Congrats.

20.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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