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Darin Downs with the Long Island Ducks
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Three Batter Minimum: Down, but Not Out

Darin Downs was done playing professional baseball to start the 2021 season. He had settled into a new role as pitching coach for the Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks. It appeared that the Coronavirus has helped to end the career of someone who had been playing at the pro level since 2003. Then the Ducks […]

Posted on September 24, 2021September 20, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Esmil Rogers waiting on a ball back from the catcher.
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Three Batter Minimum: An Odd Pitch Count

I absolutely love the ridiculousness of professional baseball. It’s a sport, sure, but it is also a professional endeavor. It’s something that grown adults are partaking in so that they can make money, build a career, live their lives, etc. Yet, at the same time, professional baseball is home to events and happenings that are […]

Posted on September 10, 2021September 9, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Teddy Stankiewicz practicing with Team Mexico.
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Three Batter Minimum: A Bad Week for Teddy

Imagine for a moment that you’re Teddy Stankiewicz. You’re riding high on the wave of leading the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions to the 2020 Chinese Professional Baseball League championship. You’ve spent two winters in Mexico and the Dominican Republic as well as two summers in Taiwan showing that you are one of the best pitchers in […]

Posted on August 27, 2021August 13, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Three Batter Minimum: Parsing Out the Pecos League

The Pecos League is, well, hard to keep track of for lack of a better phrase. You combine a ridiculous streaming price point of $6/game with a website that is straight out of your “I’m firing up America Online in 1998 and ready to surf the net” nightmares and you get a league that isn’t […]

Posted on August 20, 2021August 13, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Milton Harper with the Wei Chuan Dragons
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Three Batter Minimum: The Curious Case of Milton Harper

Not all baseball stories are good baseball stories. Some are awful with a dash of morbidity and confusion tossed into the mix. That’s the best way I can think of to describe the end of Milton Harper’s career and life. The two are intertwined but in reality, not much is known about how his life […]

Posted on August 6, 2021August 1, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
January 17, 2023

Twitter's an unorganized mess without a third party app to show Tweets chronologically, block out ads, & let me resume where I left off scrolling. I'm done here for the most part. I won't be posting much to Mastodon, but if I do you can find me at,

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January 13, 2023

Seems like good ole Elon took away the functionality of the third party app I used to read Twitter. I'll likely be around way less as I really can't handle the non-chronological layout of Twitter on the app or web.

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January 12, 2023

Colonizers gonna colonize.

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