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Mike Bates

@mikebatestwibh.bsky.social

Podcaster for This Week In Baseball History (@TWIBHistory.bsky.social). Almost used to be A Guy. Enthusiastic SABR member/evangelist. Proud and grieving dad.

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Mike Bates@mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you want to read the most galling statement ever after three people were mowed down by a drunk driver, here's his fixer saying that the drunk is the real victim in all of this.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

15/ In court, a lawyer emphasized that Cruz was one of baseball’s “five highest-rated prospects internationally.” The accident, he told the judge, “hurts the whole town, Oneil above all, who for this will have to go to professional therapy so that he can cope with the trauma.”

Mike Bates@mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 7d ago

Heading to the Minnesota State Fair tomorrow. Gonna see some seed art and some farm animals and some butter sculptures, and will eat as much food as my mind and body can handle given I'm on a GLP-1. Going to give my daughter and her friend some Midway tickets and some cash and let them run wild.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

She wrote a handful of the greatest songs ever written, and the first thing so many people think of is not those towering achievements, but how good a person she was and how many people’s lives she improved

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Mike Bates@mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 3w ago

1) Pray for Mojo 2) Celebrate the birth of your country by blowing up a small part of it. 3) Sure it isn't 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow might bring? 4) I think it must have been that bean I had for dinner. 5) Come, family. Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Dave Zirin@edgeofsports.bsky.social · 3w ago

The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: 5) Milhouse: My Dad’s a pretty big wheel down at the cracker victory 4) McBain: Ice To See You 3) You Don’t Get Friends with Salad 2) Homer: And who can forget rat boy? 1) Comic Book Guy: “Is there a word in Klingon for lonliness? Oh yes. ‘Aag-plach!’”