Andrew HELL-son
@ninesnorth.bsky.social
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Baseball history and soccer writer, former Let’s Get Two, Sota Soccer, and Moin Moin Moin USA, producer for Ballpark Nation, war/board gamer, sometime vintage base ball & futsal player, cat owner, collector of soccer and baseball hats and jerseys.
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Bill Nye remains based.
Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is
wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king
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"Those who give the perpetrator a place also carry his guilt - no place for Boateng!"

The Südkurve München on reported plans for former Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng to do a coaching internship at the club. A Munich court found Boateng guilty of domestic violence in 2024.
Taking in der Klassiker with FC Bayern Minneapolis-St. Paul and a couple of members of Südkurve Toronto
Define your music taste in eight artists/bands:
Descendents
Jason Isbell
Bad Religion
Drive-by Truckers
Dillinger Four
The Replacements
Lucero
The Sword
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Boards of Canada
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Horse Lords
Fat White Family
Magdalena Bay
Radiohead
Men I Trust
Pink Floyd

(just thinking about this was stressful, ha ha ha 😅)
Define your music taste in eight artists:
OK Go
Steely Dan
The Beatles
Sum 41
Beastie Boys
The All-American Rejects
Huey Lewis and the News
John Williams
Hadn’t thought about OK Soda in a minute, but then the new Dillinger Four album reminded me: youtu.be/C_xF82TBEyc?...
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This is hardly a new observation; Katelyn Burns did a piece on this a few days ago ( www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu... ). But every day shit like this happens Pritzker is undermining his own position. You can't be outraged at one flavor of state based terror while greenlighting another.
Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops
Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...
www.burnsnotice.com
Sure is a choice by Napoli to go with a Goatse tribute for their Halloween kit this year. 🫢
Re-tooled my defense on hearing that Quansah is doubtful and Wahl is out.
Thanks for the heads up! The BL Fantasy app is so bad about tracking player status.
It’s Friday, so here’s your weekly reminder to set your #FantasyBundesliga lineup! Don’t forget, you get unlimited transfers since we’re returning from an international break. Here’s how I’m lined up for #Bundesliga Matchday 7 ⬇️
Happy Birthday, Bob! Love the new Sugar single!
Would not have guessed that we would get new music by Dillinger Four and Sugar this year, but here we are, and it’s pretty fuckin’ great! 🤘
SC Freiburg will be playing in special jerseys that commemorate 50 years of their women’s team on Sunday!
ℹ️ Wir spielen am Sonntag im Sondertrikot "50 Jahre SC-Frauen" - hat bei den Frauen gegen Frankfurt ja schon Glück gebracht.
We can not use AI, for one.
“What can we do?” - Share Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline with Congress

Tell them: Read it. Act on it.

Call, write, email—then send this link ⤵️
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics, or a pdf of the report (available online)
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
Be there, brother! Oooooooooh, yeah!
Little buddy hung out with me all morning, until my wife got up, and then he shot up out of my lap as soon as he heard the bedroom door! 😂
Mystery solved (thanks to @crunkchocolate.bsky.social)! It’s SC Moosbrunn, a team in the 5th tier of Austrian soccer. They’re currently 11th place out of 12 in the 2. Klasse Ost-Mitte.
Does anyone know what team this jacket is for? I think it’s Austrian, but might be German. Haven’t been able to find anything searching for SCM 1907. (This isn’t mine, it’s for sale on an app.)
Thank you! You’ve got some strong search fu skills, sir!
Does anyone know what team this jacket is for? I think it’s Austrian, but might be German. Haven’t been able to find anything searching for SCM 1907. (This isn’t mine, it’s for sale on an app.)
Polar Bear cuddles happen every day, but Bowie cuddles are rare and special, so now I can’t movie until he wakes up.
Polar Bear (little spoon) and Bowie (big spoon)
If Minnesota United were a car, which one would they be and why?