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This Week in Baseball: 12-23-2019

Patrick Dubuque – Baseball Prospectus ($): Regardless of where you fall on the current Major League Baseball/Minor League Baseball spat it’s pretty clear who really suffers. Fans of affiliated baseball are asked to deal with a lot for their fandom. MiLB games were one way in which they could go watch a baseball game and […]

Posted on December 23, 2019December 19, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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The Latino Role in Baseball

Throughout the history of organized professional baseball there have been two groups of people who are marginalized more than any others. The first group is women and at some point, I’ll dig deeper into the history of women’s baseball on this site. Suffice to say, whether it’s as fans, players, coaches, or front office denizens […]

Posted on November 6, 2019November 1, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)

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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,

@billcubbieblue@mastodon.world

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
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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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
January 12, 2023

Colonizers gonna colonize.

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