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Jacob Pomrenke

@buckweaver.bsky.social

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Curling, cats, and crimes. And occasional baseball. (Also, baseball crimes.) Living in Chicago with @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social. Never quite sure which century I’m in. https://jacobpomrenke.com

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · Nov 9

Well, this escalated quickly. Welcome to Bluesky, y’all. Here’s a starter pack of SABR members I could find who appear to be active here: go.bsky.app/4oQpXLh

And if I accidentally missed somebody and you want to be added (or removed), please let me know.

Bluesky starter pack: list of SABR members

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The Herd Chronicles @herdchronicles.bsky.social · 2d

Pete Hill was born #OTD in 1882. The Baseball Hall of Famer starred for various Negro League teams in the early 1900s. Lived the latter part of his life in #Buffalo, playing semipro ball for Pete Hill’s Colored Stars and Buffalo Red Caps. Read more here: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 10h

Sending good thoughts!

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JJ Cooper @jjcoop36.bsky.social · 10h

Closest I can find to tonight's GIDP:

Cleveland 9-2 GIDP in 1919 (Aug. 15). And a Reds' game that had a 7-2 in 1933 (June 4, Game 2).

Those are the only two GIDP I can find that end with the ball in the catcher's hand and began with the ball in an outfielder's hand.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 11h

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 11h

Pitchers to face the minimum through 8 innings of a postseason game:

2025 NLCS G1 Blake Snell
1956 WS G5 Don Larsen, perfect game
1914 WS G2 Bill James
1910 WS G1 Chief Bender

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Sarah Wexler @sarahwexler.bsky.social · 12h

Max Muncy's "GIDP" fly ball (404 feet) traveled more than 40 feet farther than Freddie Freeman's home run (362 feet).

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 13h

This is the best thing I have watched on TV in years, maybe decades

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 12h

We should all be so lucky to live in the same building as a kind chef who likes to drop off little “care packages” from time to time.

Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 12h

Lemon garlic chicken rice, with tzatziki. And dessert is still the homemade mooncakes our neighbor brought us the other day.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 12h

Because the batter cannot officially reach first base on a force play (regardless of how it’s scored) unless the runners in front of him also safely reach their bases. Which they did not.

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 13h

That insanity goes down officially as a grounded into double play, making it the only batted ball hit over 350 feet for a GIDP in the pitch tracking era (reg. + postseason).

Max Muncy grounded into a 404-foot double play.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 12h

OK, I came back to everyone talking about a double play on a ball that was clearly not caught on the fly. This is the part of the play I still hadn’t seen (glancing over while cooking dinner.)

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13h

So it's a double play, an out at home (out #2) and an out at 3rd since Will Smith did not advance from 2nd (3rd out)

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13h

"what the fuck just happened"

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 13h

I think many people also don’t want to consider the possibility that someone in their own family simply … made up a story and/or passed down a lie, because it was just easier that way.

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Christina Kahrl @christinakahrl.bsky.social · 15h

Do you want to work in Sports at the San Francisco Chronicle? Our summer internship application has opened up & we'd love to see yours. The previous 4 sports interns all landed jobs in the industry; we gear this internship to help make sure you will too! eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sports Reporting Intern, Summer 2026

Would you like to work with world-class journalists at a digital media company seeking to reinvent the way it covers news and reaches readers? The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for a reporting in...

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Ryan Woodward @ryangw27.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! SABR's Native American Major Leaguers is now out and I am most honored to have my brief bio of Yolande Teillet's included. Check it out: sabr.org/ebooks Dirt Forever in the Skirt! #SABR #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ReadBaseball

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 19h

To celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, check out our newest SABR Digital Library book: Native American Major Leaguers tells the story of 40+ players who appeared in the big leagues, plus essays from and about Indigenous people and communities: sabr.org/latest/sabr-...

Native American Major Leaguers, edited by Rob Daugherty and Bill Nowlin

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 23h

Love my neighborhood.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

400 Rogers Park Neighbors Rally After ICE Arrests 4, Including Tamale Vendor

Neighbors lined Clark Street on Saturday as a show of support after multiple immigration arrests. "We've seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less," a neighbor s...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse. Can’t tell if This Old Cat is extremely comfortable or the opposite. Not sure it really matters when it comes to nap time.

An elderly gray tortoiseshell cat lays in an awkward Q shape on a patterned red rug with a small cardboard box beside her head. Her body is curled into a ball with the back paws pointing toward the 3 o’clock position and her tail outstretched toward 7 o’clock. One eye remains open in a creepy way.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there’s a segment of every generation that decides whatever way it’s being done now is unfair, and maybe we should try it another way. But of course, that way is also unfair for different reasons.

Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Since 1924, it’s been 2-3-2 in every WS … except war years 1943 (3-3-1) and 1945 (3-4). Before then, it varied and coin flips usually decided site of final game. 1921-23 subway series were 1-1-1-1-1-1-1. 1918 (also war) was 3-3-1. 1914-17 were all 2-2-1-1-1.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi...

2. bsky.app/profile/roya...

3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

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