Christian Ruzich

God bless the first Chicagoan who, upon looking at an a Italian beef sandwich, thought "I'll just throw a sassidge on there too."

Yes

Rich Hill actually went one more out - no-hitter through 9 and then gave up a leadoff walk-off homer in the 10th!

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Can you post the whole list? I was digging around Baseball Reference and found games where Phil Niekro and Don Sutton faced each other, 20 years apart:

8/20/67
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...

6/8/87
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CAL/CA...

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The 17 states that have never hosted a major league game: Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

#baseball #mlb

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* If you add in recognized Negro Leagues (6 additional states) and defunct major leagues (2 additional states), MLB has been played in 33 states.

#baseball #mlb

* The current 30 teams play in 17 states (plus DC)

* AL/NL games have been played in 7 additional states (Alabama, Hawaii, Iowa, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Nevada, plus PR); Tennessee will be the 8th

#baseball #mlb

(1/3) When the Reds and Atlanta play tomorrow at Bristol Motor Speedway, Tennessee will become the 25th state to host an AL/NL game.

#baseball #mlb

Why does Boog Sciambi pronounce Fernando Tatis Jr's last name with a Z sound at the end?

Glenallen Hill did that (as well?)

YouTube video by Neil Finn Crowded House - Four Seasons In One Day

The official song of March in Chicago

youtu.be/si3dBlNdifE?...

I didn't think we needed a Neville Chamberlain for the 21st Century but evidently Chuck Schumer disagreed.

But why come out of the PSA with a Red Hot Chili Peppers song? Maybe because they have almost no Black artists on their playlist? I guess they can't play Rage Against the Machine every single time... (2/2)

Kudos to @q101chicago.bsky.social for highlighting important black musicians for Black History Month in the current anti-DEI environment. And I particularly appreciate them saying "research and learn more."

Cover of International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers

Dewey Decimal R004.0922 Lee. J

What's the #firstbook in your #library by the Dewey Decimal System? Here's the one from the #Evanston Public Library.

Autogolpe What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos

Today's (and every day's) word of the day: autogolpe

A DVD-R on which someone has written "A Whole Lot of Eckert Tolle"

Seen in the recycling today...is that a promise or a threat?

In the recycling today...is that a promise or a threat?

Thanks, I knew the Bright Eyes cover but not the original..

It's been 20+ years since we lost everything in the Cedar Fire, but I still get PTSDish when SoCal burns. Stay safe everyone, and EVACUATE.

She's not his daughter, but maybe...

Hah, yep!

OK, I guess JTE's death wasn't a suicide per se, it was an overdose due to fentanyl contamination. So that one might not count

TW: Suicide

I have in my favorite #music three songs about suicide by someone who later died by suicide.

So it's a #TopThree:

Loud Family-Slit My Wrists
Justin Townes Earle-Harlem River Blues
Frightened Rabbit-Swim Until You Can't See Land

Others?Saying "any Elliot Smith song" doesn't count.

Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11

Hmmm...if I try to import it into MusicBrainz, it shows up as the wrong artist. The artist is listed as Sugar (SuGar, actually), but it's not actually this one:

musicbrainz.org/artist/e3347...

Excellent, thanks!

@musicbrainz.org asking you because Spotify doesn't have a Bluesky account... I found an album on Spotify that is credited to an incorrect artist, how can that be fixed?

I searched for the release on MusicBrainz but couldn't find it ...

The stock market <> the economy