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Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: Two-Run Suicide Squeeze

I spend a good chunk of my time on this site writing about things happening in baseball that I find to be fun. It’s time yet again for me to highlight a baseball moment that was lots of fun. Look below and marvel at what took place, The particulars of who was involved with this […]

Posted on July 15, 2022July 5, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Unaffiliated Happenings

Unaffiliated Happenings: 06-13-2022

Welcome to the first edition of Unaffiliated Happenings. For those who missed the question about whether I should do this, here’s a quick breakdown of what we’re doing here. On a semi-weekly basis, I’ll release an Unaffiliated Happenings column where I’ll break down three or so of the most interesting unaffiliated news stories from the […]

Posted on June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Baseball Beyond MLB

Baseball Beyond MLB: Dave Roberts

Some great players have amazing careers that everyone is well aware of. Then there are players who have long careers that have ups and downs but overall end up being really great. We tend to write a lot about the players with amazing careers. Those with longer careers but lower peaks don’t warrant as much […]

Posted on January 27, 2022January 19, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Tsuyoshi Shinjo in the flesh at the press conference introducing him as the Big Boss of the Fighters
Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: The Big Boss

These past few years have been pretty boring as a Hokkaido Nippon- Ham Fighters fan. Losing Shohei Ohtani was a big blow, but one that every Fighters fan knew was coming. Still, following his exit to the Major League Baseball ranks the team quickly entered the realm of cellar dweller. Outside of my Wang Po-jung […]

Posted on November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Baseball Beyond MLB

Baseball Beyond MLB: Julio Franco

Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have even when it’s right in front of us. Despite Julio Franco having a long Major League Baseball career and the majority of that career taking place during my formative baseball watching years I never realized how great of a player he actually was. It wasn’t until recently that […]

Posted on October 14, 2021October 5, 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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