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Bob Hille

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40+ yrs in sports journalism (COTXMOSCMO) • Now: 🎯 STL @SportingNews Sr Editorial Consultant • BBWAA gold card • lifelong Liz lover + @CSURams 🐏 fan.

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · Apr 2

“These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such. This is our moral moment. This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested. … Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 39m

#OTD Oct. 14, 1996, cover of The Sporting News (@sportingnews.com). Coupla pretty good players there.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 58m

And just in case you're unfamiliar with Don Larsen, here's a peek at @sportingnews.com's Oct. 17, 1956, coverage of the only perfect game World Series history.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 1h

Welcome to the #WorldCup2026, Cape Verde!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, it's a big stadium, but a 2-3-1 record and fans disenchanted with team's direction since Parsons trade doesn't help much.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 1h

And just in case you're unfamiliar with Don Larsen, here's a peek at @sportingnews.com's Oct. 17, 1956, coverage of the only perfect game World Series history.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 1h

Pulse check in Big D: Washington at Dallas, one of the NFL's great longtime rivalries, this weekend at AT&T Stadium. Get-in price on the secondary market (vividseats) is $21, cheapest on the Week 7 schedule. Whoa.

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 2h

Lions S Brian Branch, suspended one game without pay for starting a postgame fight by shoving Chiefs WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, has been fined 14 times since entering the NFL … in 2023. 😳

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 3h

Just throwing this out there: On this date, Oct. 14, in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 3h

Worth noting and not for nothing: Dodgers starter Blake Snell last night became the first pitcher to face the minimum through eight innings in a postseason game since Don Larsen threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series. 😳

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Oh man. The Dodgers may win this game but this inning is a light for Brewers fans. A problem at closer in the postseason is a PROBLEM

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

SQUEEZE IT!!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

And now we’d do it again. Chirpers gonna chirp!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Roki in the 9th and we’re chirping from the dugout: SQUEEZE IT!!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Roki … sweating

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

And now we’d do it again. Chirpers gonna chirp!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Roki in the 9th and we’re chirping from the dugout: SQUEEZE IT!!

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Roki in the 9th and we’re chirping from the dugout: SQUEEZE IT!!

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

OK, how ‘bout the Play?

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s the deal: If the law says you must carry your papers (Immigration Act of 1940) and you do, but ICE thugs and goons can say, “They’re fake! You’re lying!” and zip tie you and hold you then understand why we’re fucking marching Oct. 18. #NoKings

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20h

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14h

Fox camera work is …

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14h

Bills fans after loss in “Cold Front” unis: Your honor, these should never be worn again.
Me: Motion confimed.
Bills fans in the event of a loss in these throwback unis: Your honor, these should never be worn again.
Me: Motion denied.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14h

Aikman: “This may come down to a Hail Mary”

All Chicago: Too soon.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14h

Live-sports mantra: Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you ain’t seen shit.

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14h

bruce lee is wearing a blue shirt with a white collar

ALT: bruce lee is wearing a blue shirt with a white collar

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15h

Understated Darling analysis: “Sometimes the hitter tells you what to throw.”

Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15h

Nice press box flashback for me: What the fuck did I just see?

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