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Michael Shopoff

@mshopoff.bsky.social

Sports data scientist seeking professional/collegiate/consulting opportunities. I follow most sports but root for Astros, Longhorns, Rockets, Red Wings, USMNT, and USWNT (he/him)

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Michael Shopoff@mshopoff.bsky.social · yesterday

1. “Ryan throws 7-hitter” was an all timer headline 2. I totally forgot about Bo Jackson being in on this. How you don’t immediately evacuate is beyond me. 3. Ventura was absolutely the precursor to Joe Kelly’s “I’ll start shit and not back it up at all”

Baseball by BSmile@bsmile.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today In 1993: 46-year-old Texas #Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan takes care of business after Robin Ventura makes a bad decision to charge the mound after getting drilled by a fastball! #MLB #Legend #Baseball #History

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Tyson, OLD 🍉@tymo214.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone on threads made a list of the most unlikeable athletes in all the major sports and had Jose Altuve for MLB. I get not personally liking Altuve because “ASTROS” or whatever, but Jose Altuve isn’t even the most unlikeable MLB player in his own car when he’s driving alone…