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Casey Stengel biographer. Shanty Hogan chronicler. Infinite Inning podcast host. Baseball Prospectus author and Consulting Editor. Collector of far too many books. | https://www.baseballprospectus.com/show/the-infinite-inning/

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hey! I'm Steve. My podcast is The Infinite Inning, which combines baseball, history, politics, and culture. My books are Forging Genius, on the early career of Casey Stengel, and Baseball's Brief Lives, biographical essays. Between, there's been a whole lot of my beloved home, Baseball Prospectus.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · Nov 11

Infinite Inning Episode 306: A pitcher goes through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a catcher suffers, the William Tell Overture is played on the harmonica but no strikeouts are recorded, and somehow this tells us something about where to go from here. www.baseballprospectus.com/podcasts/inf...

Infinite Inning 306: The Pitcher Who Refused to Go Home | Baseball Prospectus

After the week we’ve had, we’re all once again in the Infinite Inning, but is there a way out? Follow along the winding path as a Yankees ace puts his head through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a...

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 4h

I know Tighe has done bigger and more important things (Sport Sullivan in "Eight Men Out!"), but "Emergency" repeats were a big part of Saturday afternoons when I was a kid. I remember them so fondly I'm afraid to look at them again.

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 17h

If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 4h

Lobby poster for the 1964 horror film "Children of the Damned," with glowy-eyed telepathic kids staring out at you.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 4h

I seem to recall the Republicans accusing FDR of doing this back in the day. Everything they've weaponized can boomerang on them... unless they intend never to leave. That seems like a very reasonable inference to make at this stage. Whether they can do it-or if we let them-is a different matter.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 5h

What Teri did would've been a dealbreaker for me too. She abused her position. Reminds me of someone who worked in a background capacity at at a certain publication. They felt they should be out front and went to great disruptive lengths, but they WEREN'T A WRITER so it ended in disaster.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 5h

What did Teri do?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Subject of Investigation: Are some Congressional Republicans Nazis
Means of Investigation: look at them
Conclusion of Investigation: yeop

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 12h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 12h

As ever, Mike, all my love and empathy to you and yours.

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Mike Bates @mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 12h

I lost my son to a fentanyl and opioid overdose, and killing a bunch of Venezuelan fishermen wouldn't have helped him in the least. Fuck off, you fucking ghoul.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

One of the formative experiences of my very young baseball life was seeing the Yankees win the first two games of the 1981 WS against the Dodgers and thinking, "This is in the bag!" And it wasn't! So, as it was said in ancient times let it be said today: it ain't over 'til it's over.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby coin a Perlstein's law: when a movement flushes out a critical mass of never-before activists-- like the Christian Right and BLM both did--serious possibilities for change open up.

We shall overcome.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

I am totally with you. It's just that one place it set something up and then didn't deliver.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

He sends his friends, not the same thing, so he can respond to a "rift," which is a Marvel "portal" but horizontal. Which is defeated by another guy typing. It missed what would have been such a wonderful and important catharsis.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Responding to an ad for this year's Superman film: I enjoyed it. Unlike other recent attempts, it loved him rather than sneering at him. The biggest miss was at the climax, a little kid raises an S flag. An oppressed people chants his name, but the film DOES NOT HAVE SUPERMAN REWARD THEIR FAITH.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if they are or aren't but I feel like in either case the mature thing to do is to grasp towards acceptance.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Missed opportunity to shout "Dave Cash!" in return.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Someday these same monsters will claim they were "just following orders," and from their perspective it will be true in that they were chosen because they were exactly the sort of people who would unquestioningly follow Miller's blueprint and even enjoy it. Not everyone would be so compliant.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to generalize about any group incl cops. What I think has more utility is to note that the group you (that is, Stephen Miller) get is the one you sort for, so if you look for sociopaths, then give them permission (Miller again) to be brutal, this is the result-evil people doing evil things.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

They deride their imagined enemy "Antifa" to obscure that they're anti-human.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

The Griffey Jr at the organ commercial brought to mind the Dave Winfield plays Chopin ads from 100 years ago. youtu.be/h7cVu25Etek?...

Dave Winfield plays Chopin Polonaise Opus 53 in A flat (and B flat and C flat....)

YouTube video by DaveWinfieldHOF

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is a selfish request on my part, but I wish that broadcasters would lay off the cameras mounted on the catcher's or ump's bobbing head as for me it is indistinguishable from a make-Steve-pukey-cam.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

"Scientists still perplexed at plummeting birthrates worldwide. In other news, four out of five adults who described themselves as 'sexually active' said they 'find other people unnecessary.'"

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

It did occur to me that being a caring friend would mean wishing that he DIDN'T get it, and yet I think there is a LOT of low-hanging fruit w/fixing that team if the new guy is allowed to have some common sense about things. I wrote about this recently: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Living on a Thin Rays Line | Baseball Prospectus

Tampa Bay's ills have been laid at the feet of roster churn and bridge traffic. But it might also be a matter of je ne sais quoi.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Rooting for my former @baseballprospectus.com colleague!

Passanthallich @passanthalbot.bsky.social · 1d

🔁 @Ken_Rosenthal retweeted
@Britt_Ghiroli Ex-Astros GM James Click among those who have interviewed for Rockies’ top job: Sources https://t.co/udweuhxniK

🔁 @Ken_Rosenthal retweeted @Britt_Ghiroli Ex-Astros GM James Click among those who have interviewed for Rockies’ top job: Sources https://t.co/udweuhxniK

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Was probably the equivalent of, "Now batting for the Yankees... Number Three... Nero!!!" You'd be saying, "Where the F is Judge?" "Oh, the emperor had him murdered so he could play." "Boooooo."