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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 · 9h

A shame that all three of them passed on some time ago.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 11h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 12h

I used to get him confused with Lou Jacobi, who played the guy into cross-dressing in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex."

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 13h

For a couple of weeks now, when I thought of Sasaki I was reminded of Calvin Schiraldi and Byung-Hyun Kim. I'd say, "Come on, brain! Don't be such a pessimist!"

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 13h

"Who the hell needs 'base-cam?'" asks Charles Conlon (and Ty Cobb and Jimmy Austin).

The famous Charles Conlon shot of Ty Cobb sliding into 3B under Jimmy Austin.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 14h

I am here for all your H-B deep cuts. Do "Grape Ape" next!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 14h

Rare a cameraman is so excited by a deep drive that he just slaps his camera so it does a disco-ball spin instead of showing us the play.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 14h

I have never had a neighbor that great. Just a Hall of Famer there.

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Sarah Wexler @sarahwexler.bsky.social · 14h

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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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 14h

What are we having, and is there dessert?

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

It coyld reflect my own preoccupations or my cancer-compromised vision, but every time a ball is hit to left I see a big sign for "Humpy.com."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

Like the famous scene in "Spartacus."
"I am Sal Frelick!"
"I am Sal Frelick!"
"I am Spar--I mean, I am Sal Frelick?"

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

One of the most famous plays in baseball history was the time Babe Herman of the Dodgers doubled into a double play. It wasn't his fault, but it stuck to him anyway. Well, 99 years later the Dodgers kind of did it again!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

I have yet to hear anything interesting or informative in a single one of those interviews.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

Manager Joe McCarthy, who won 8 pennants, was very terse w/the media, so his in-game interview would have been
Q: How long can your starter go?
A: Let me worry about that.
Q: What do you think of your hitters' approach?
A: That’s between me and the players.
Q: And Ohtani?
A: I'm fond of him.

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 15h

If you subscribed to Baseball Prospectus, you knew about Quinn Priester's road map to excellence alllll the way back in April, thanks to @mariodelgadogenzor.bsky.social:

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TA: Can Priester Answer Milwaukee's Prayers? | Baseball Prospectus

Finding some reasons to believe.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 16h

Instead of making us read William Faulkner and Thomas Hardy in high school they should have given us Ring Lardner and Nathaniel West.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 17h

That's why the experienced 7-11 Man of the World brings his own turkey!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 17h

Slip a tenner to the guy behind the counter at your local deserted 7-11 and you too can witness this miracle of poultry!

Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 17h

They 100 percent cooked that entire turkey on the hot dog rollers in the press box.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 17h

At some point the opposition has been to Varland and they're ready for a different sort of vacation.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 18h

You know what would be slightly more believable is that Jack Smith planted Eric.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 18h

And we used to sing that it was love that made the world go 'round.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 18h

I was stuck away from the game. What do the Mariners know about Yesavage that totally eluded the Yankees?

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 18h

I worry that freeing hostages abroad while taking them at home will cause cognitive dissonance for his target audience of marks--confusion that somehow always resolves in his favor.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18h

Recent polls, Trump approval, drop since last poll:

Ipsos/Reuters 40%-58% (-18) 1 pt ⬇️
Econ/YouGov 39%-56% (-17) 2 pts ⬇️
CBS 42%-58% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Civiqs 40%-56% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Morn Cons 45%-53% (-8) 2 pts ⬇️

So far shutdown ain't working for Trump.

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 19h

you can stop managing the san diego padres with this one weird trick

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 19h

Via ESPN. The "toll" really has altered him dramatically. Maybe for the better?

ESPN headline: Padres' Shildt retires, cites 'severe toll' of job' accompanied by a bespectacled woman wearing a CPAP machine and looking fairly miserable.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 19h

Via ESPN. The "toll" really has altered him dramatically. Maybe for the better?

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