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@colinivan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

And thanks to @docrevan.bsky.social for sharing it and giving it oxygen. It wouldve been just another monday morning column otherwise, forgotten by the time the kids got home from school

@colinivan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thanks to everybody who read this piece. Its intimidating writing about somebody elses sport, so to have so many read it and not be apalled meant something. Ive been writing about a lot of heavy things lately. This world series made me reconnect with the poetry of sport in a way i never expected

@colinivan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thanks to everybody who read this piece. Its intimidating writing about somebody elses sport, so to have so many read it and not be apalled meant something. Ive been writing about a lot of heavy things lately. This world series made me reconnect with the poetry of sport in a way i never expected

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 11mo ago

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
@colinivan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Learning nothing from Gaza, we ignore the West Bank & peddle Israeli tropes of "terrorists" & "prisoners" to justify. Instead, every conversation about Palestine should begin acknowledging their legal right to resist occupation. todays @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Western reporting fails to include right to resist Israeli occupation

Journalists who, one can only assume, entered the profession inspired by a motivation to tell the truth are repeatedly failing in their duty — not even to pick sides, but to simply call things what th...

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