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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · Nov 17

Can You name these teams based upon the starting lineups?

If you can then you will enjoy our new Game "Starting9"

I plan on introducing new sets of 9 puzzles weekly. This week we have our 14th Series "Niekro".

Starting9 game link:

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 4m

of which 3 are v the Phillies (2008 & 09 NLCS)

schmenk-bsky @schmenk.bsky.social · 9m

Manny 11

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Slack

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 24m

Was there any security involved? perhaps a FOIA could provide a paper trail of the invitations.

Spooky Ghostsulias 👻🎃🧙🏻 @stacegotsbaseball.com · 31m

Maybe someone should ask why all of these Nazis were invited to the inauguration?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 46m

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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NPR @npr.org · 30m

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts. n.pr/4nYSLHq

A book vending machine provides an outlet for D.C.-area authors after funding cuts

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 29m

I am now more interested in # of PostSeason HR after 33rd birthday.

schmenk-bsky @schmenk.bsky.social · 48m

Bryce Harper is 33 today. Schwarber will turn 33 in March.

In MLB history, most postseason HRs by a player's 33rd bday:

T-1) SCHWARBER, Altuve 23

T-10) HARPER, Jeter, Thome 17

A lot more postseason now, esp. compared to Mantle's day.

stathead.com/tiny/Doyff

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 31m

congrats Keith O!

Looks like a great event all around as well.

Keith O’Brien @keithob.bsky.social · 43m

What a fun night at the Ohio Book Awards—with Gov. Mike DeWine, the First Lady Ohio, my date for the evening (my mother!), great writers like @timothysnyder.bsky.social, and people fighting to defend books.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

Soy Bean sales are not hurting ADM - up 25% in 2025:

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Google Finance provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, up-to-date financial news, and analytics to help you make more informed trading and investment decisions.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

Between now and November 4th feel free to cart as much junk out of there as possible.

Chip Chantry @chipchantry.bsky.social · 2h

I love those little free libraries almost as much as I love those little boxes in front of people’s houses where you can take free mail.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

"The Morning Show" s4e5 powerRanks

1) Mia
2) Chris Hunter
3) Bro Hartman

X) Tunde
Y) Alex
Zed) Cory

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Jhoan Duran was the 2025 team leader in Saves for BOTH the Phillies and Twins, splitting his 32 saves equally between the squads 16-16.

www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/du...

www.baseball-reference.com

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

gets me wondering how many players have led the league in saves for multiple teams.

In my brain the number of closers that bust for their FA teams seems kind of high.

GW-RBI @gwrbi-baseball-fan.bsky.social · 3h

A random card from my TCDB collection: 1991 Topps John Franco #cardsky

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Do the students have a WordPress/TikTok/Whatever is in vogue now website set up yet?

Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social · 14h

Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 3h

Is the name Governors Public Health Alliance (GPHA)?

Is there any chance Health Insurance Companies will be part of this alliance? - note: Connecticut is among the Alliance

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 3h

Voting for JF grants PA cons permission to claim they are more open minded than progressives.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 3h

46% approval isn't exactly popular (not exactly unpopular either)

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 3h

I understand Creedence gets associated with Bayou Country but to me it is winding roads in Fall along Creeks & Streams with changing leaves.

I can see Cheap Trick & the Kinks being return to school soundtracks

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3h

bands I associate with fall for reasons of my own:
- Cheap Trick
- The Kinks

today's commute was a combo of In Color and Dream Police and next week I foresee some Kinks entering the rotation.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1d

US facility that builds Truck & Van body parts.

www.pennlive.com/business/202...

‘Unforeseeable circumstances’ force Pa. company to temporarily close facility, lay off 92

The layoffs are expected to take place in December.

www.pennlive.com

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 14h

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The Shlabotnik Report @shlabotnik-rpt.bsky.social · 15h

In honour of Spooky Month, share a four would horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"The user knows SQL"

John Kott @johnkott.bsky.social · 16h

In honour of Spooky Month, share a four would horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"My girlfriend can sing"

-scary dr. booty @justbrady.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

it’s a concurrent delay

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 15h

WAS

Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 15h

2008 Phils won with 2.

And I'm not seeing the 3. Bryce was a pretty good RFer.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 16h

3 different players that cannot play in the field doesn't seem prudent.

Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 16h

If he's *in addition to* Schwarber, I'm all for it.

Skimp on catcher, move Bryce back to RF, just spell him a lot over the course of the season. Lineup could be amazing.

Yes, Pete's a goober. He's also the best concievable RH bat we could concievably add. Assuming Tucker is a nonstarter.

jim @tagjim.bsky.social · 16h

I do not want Pete Alonso and his weirdo ex-Met energy on this team.
Acceptable ex Mets Tug McGraw Roger McDowall Zach Wheler that is all

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 16h

The Time Photo is not that big of a deal.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 17h

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 17h

Is Yamamoto the eldest of the group?

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 17h

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 5th pitcher to throw his first career MLB complete game (reg or post) in the Postseason, joining:

Marco Estrada G1 2016 ALCS, 8.0 IP
Josh Beckett G5 2003 NLCS
Liván Hernández G5 1997 NLCS
Jim Beattie G5 1978 WS

h/t @EliasSports

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 20h

groan... then applauded.

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 20h

everyone helps out with the memorial service so they can say they had a hand in it

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 20h

When a puppet dies and you feel sad even though it wasn’t a real person the phenomenon Is called “felt loss”

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 21h

perhaps it has friendly ghosts

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1d

US facility that builds Truck & Van body parts.

www.pennlive.com/business/202...

‘Unforeseeable circumstances’ force Pa. company to temporarily close facility, lay off 92

The layoffs are expected to take place in December.