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Still of a Fox Sports West broadcast that shows Clayton Kershaw's Pride Night hat with a bible verse written on it.
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When Basbeall Leaves You Feeling Numb

Back on Friday, June 13th, the Los Angeles Dodgers held their annual Pride Night event. To get the cat out of the bag, I’m not the biggest fan of corporate Pride events. More often than not, they are pinkwashing affairs, meant to distract from actions that the corporation in question hopes you will forget about. […]

Posted on August 12, 2025August 11, 2025 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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The BBWAA Loves Them Some Curt Schilling

It’s become a yearly tradition for Baseball Writers Association of America members to release their National Baseball Hall of Fame ballots and hold their noses over voting for Curt Schilling. The initial reaction I have is similar to others, “why do they keep voting for him? Don’t they care about the victims of his hatred?” […]

Posted on January 13, 2021January 11, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Thom Brennman probably about to say something homophobic in the Cincinnati Reds booth
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Thom Brennaman, Really?

Every once in a while a baseball league or organization makes a decision that leaves you scratching your head. Not quite as often a league or organization makes a series of decisions that make you question whether anyone involved in making said decisions have a shred of intelligence. Typically when an article is started this […]

Posted on December 16, 2020December 10, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Jennifer Diaz poses with a car given to her by Mel Hall Jr.
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The Depressing Tale of Baseball

I keep a notepad with story ideas for this website. It’s quite long and I’m always adding ideas to the notepad. I know that I likely won’t get to every idea, but if I have a decent idea I want to make sure it’s jotted down so that I don’t forget. Some ideas stick around […]

Posted on September 2, 2020September 1, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comments(12)
Otto Hess playing catch.
Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Otto Hess

Right from the get-go, Otto Hess was a two-way player. Okay, okay, okay, not from the very get-go, but in his second year of professional baseball he took on the two-way player cause. It’s unclear what caused this to be the course of action because in 1902 with the American League’s Cleveland Bronchos he was […]

Posted on July 19, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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