Dan Okrent

Post a random baseball card. And the more random the better. I’ll start:

Even the Russians are mocking Trump’s disaster of a parade. This one’s going to sting.🤣

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@thorn_john You’re a wonder, Thorn. But she throws like a girl.

Who would imagine that Cap Anson was captured on film playing baseball? Here's a link to the Oakland Oaks Opening Day Parade (opponent: San Francisco) and ballfield antics of April 2, 1918. Making a ceremonial first pitch is female baseballist "Doraldina." archive.org/details/Oaklan…

@JoeBinder Cool!

Pope Leo XIV made the broadcast while at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series

@TristanSnell @jefftimmer Completely meaningless stat. Arizona has 15 counties, and 61 percent of the population lives in one of them.

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

@DM_Rubenstein @Orioles C’mon, Joe — “reasons that I cannot begin to explain”? How about this: because he’s an egomaniac with the self-control of an infant.

And if you want a bobblehead of yours truly, see you on April 19th. Go @Orioles!

@_everythingism @mattyglesias But for Joe Manchin, the majority leader during the first two years of Biden’s term - the two truly productive years - would have been Mitch McConnell. I guess that was what you were wishing for.

@mattyglesias So "abundance" is about electing people like Joe Manchin? The mask comes off...

@KBAndersen @DavidFMarchese @nytimes What the fuck???

As a big fan of @DavidFMarchese, I’m even more disappointed in whomever at the @nytimes decided to bowdlerize the great, famous Philip Larkin poem that constitutes his lede. Inexcusable. (Especially since, as I documented in 2021, the Times as published scores of fucks.).

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This is a map of the shift to Trump in NYC. The surge didn’t happen in places like the Upper West Side or Park Slope. It happened in Washington Heights, the West Bronx, Flushing, Richmond Hill, Bensonhurst—working class communities of color. 1/2

If present trends continue, this Trump victory will swamp all the micro-explanations. Shapiro as VP wouldn't have changed this. Keeping Arab-Americans in Michigan wouldn't have changed this. It's all the big stuff -- defeat in Afghanistan, a porous border, inflation, and (yes, this really matters) Biden's refusal to acknowledge reality and step aside in time for Democrats to have a real primary.

@Vegasdave59 @nut_history He was even worse in private. Nasty, self-aggrandizing, and in the case of his son, hateful and cruel. Otherwise, a great guy.

@nut_history Tommy Lasorda without doubt. He was a Giant Richard with the Public away from the stadium 🏟️.

Not trying to attack anyone with this thread but I’m just curious which athlete do you think was/is the biggest jerk?

@Johnubacon 6-6

A few thoughts on Michigan football at mid-season. I predicted 10-2, but the roster proved to be weaker than expected. That's partly due to relatively late departures of coach and QB, no fault of Sherrone's. With his current QBs, he's riding a three-legged horse. (1/3)

@dr_huffer @Jimfrombaseball I’ve met him, and he’s a delightful, engaging, and generous man. Weird, sure. But also all those other things.

@Jimfrombaseball Never met him, but he comes across as an insufferable idiot.

“It was real hatred. Fisk hated Munson. Munson hated Fisk. Everyone hated Bill Lee.” Don Zimmer Zimmer said that the only person he would never let in his house or even open the door and acknowledge their existence was Bill Lee.

@tedgioia I once heard an interviewer ask Benny to tell him about his friendship with Clifford Brown. I thought, just listen to the song, man, just listen to the song.

Here's saxophonist Benny Golson, who left us yesterday at age 95, pointing to his image in the famous 'Great Day in Harlem' photo. With Golson's passing, Sonny Rollins is the last living musician in that iconic photo of jazz greats taken in 1958.

@HankCampbell Nice! Thanks, DO

I don't have a lot of old magazines, just ones that are important. The TIME from 1948 when it was revealed that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier? Yep. Two magazines from 2016, one certain that Trump had lost and one certain Clinton had won? Of course. I have this "Inside Sports" from 1981, but not because of Reagan. It's instead because this was the first introduction for most of the world to 'fantasy baseball.' @okrent, and that wonderful title, is reason enough.

@LarkinWarren No - that was GREAT! The more he talked, the better for our side.

YES!!!