Daniel Shank Cruz
@shankcruz.bsky.social
🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes. #Mets #LGM #haiku danielshankcruz.com
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Daniel Shank Cruz
@shankcruz.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I’m excited to have three poems in the new issue of #FemkuMag, which you can read here: 69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_9...
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I’m excited to have three poems in the new issue of #FemkuMag, which you can read here: 69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_9...
😆😆😆 Don't let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya, Brandon. Let's go, Mets!
Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
😆😆😆 Don't let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya, Brandon. Let's go, Mets!
Nimmo was becoming a defensive liability and he never put it together completely offensively AND he’s the less hot player in this trade, so I’m happy with this trade. #LGM #MetsSky
One thing we’re all ignoring in the Nimmo/Semien trade is that the Mets are getting the hotter guy outta this
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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People just don't get how good Francisco Lindor is. I feel for the Mets (maybe Guards too) fans that have to justify him.
Ranked by post-integration fWAR all-time:
Ranked by post-integration fWAR all-time:
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
People just don't get how good Francisco Lindor is. I feel for the Mets (maybe Guards too) fans that have to justify him.
Ranked by post-integration fWAR all-time:
Ranked by post-integration fWAR all-time:
A few weeks later and I'm still mad about this Hall of Fame ballot 😆😭 Here's one more head-to-head of a more-deserving player getting left off: Dwight Gooden (let's go, Mets!) had a better career than Fernando Valenzuela. Neither is a HOFer in my book, but still. #LGM #MetsSky
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m not a fan of the 2025 Topps design so I hadn’t bought any, but after a lot of hemming and hawing I decided to buy a Mets team set, and it’s fascinating that Topps chose to use the NYM abbreviation (blech) for the horizontal cards and Mets for the vertical ones. #CardSky #MetsSky
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This post has ended up being one of the most polarizing posts I've ever seen on BlueSky 😆
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This post has ended up being one of the most polarizing posts I've ever seen on BlueSky 😆
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Cal Raleigh had the best season for a catcher in MLB history. He deserved to be AL MVP over Aaron Judge. But Judge plays for the Yankees, so tough shit for the rest of us
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Cal Raleigh had the best season for a catcher in MLB history. He deserved to be AL MVP over Aaron Judge. But Judge plays for the Yankees, so tough shit for the rest of us
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I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
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one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
I hope that all the people who said they were going to leave NYC if Mamdani was elected actually do! The city will be a better place for the rest of us. 💙🧡
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I hope that all the people who said they were going to leave NYC if Mamdani was elected actually do! The city will be a better place for the rest of us. 💙🧡
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
Here is the #writing activity I accomplished in October: danielshankcruz.com/2025/11/02/w...
Writing Activity, October 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do som…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here is the #writing activity I accomplished in October: danielshankcruz.com/2025/11/02/w...
Ugh, and now the dark winter begins 😭😭😭
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Ugh, and now the dark winter begins 😭😭😭
This ballgame, damn.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This ballgame, damn.
BENCHES CLEARING IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
BENCHES CLEARING IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!
Game 7 living up to the hype thus far, wow.
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Game 7 living up to the hype thus far, wow.
(Grumpy old person voice): Back in my day, the home team wore white in the World Series. (I’m still rooting for the Blue Jays, but come on.)
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
(Grumpy old person voice): Back in my day, the home team wore white in the World Series. (I’m still rooting for the Blue Jays, but come on.)
I’ve been reading UniWatch since it was on Slate, and I still remember columns that I read on it more than a decade ago (the one about the Cubs batting glove Bill Buckner wore during the 1986 World Series still blows my mind), and it brought me plenty of joy over the years. I’m sad to see it go.
This one's a gut punch.
I can honestly say there would be no Beauty of a Game without UW. Kudos to Paul and Phil for what they created and have done over the years. To say they will be sorely missed is an understatement.
uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...
I can honestly say there would be no Beauty of a Game without UW. Kudos to Paul and Phil for what they created and have done over the years. To say they will be sorely missed is an understatement.
uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...
Uni Watch: 1999–2025
After a long run, Uni Watch’s coverage of athletics aesthetics is coming to a close.
uni-watch.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’ve been reading UniWatch since it was on Slate, and I still remember columns that I read on it more than a decade ago (the one about the Cubs batting glove Bill Buckner wore during the 1986 World Series still blows my mind), and it brought me plenty of joy over the years. I’m sad to see it go.
If I were the MLB Players Association I would be looking for new leadership immediately: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Sources: Feds eye MLBPA venture over spending
Players Way was cited in an anonymous whistleblower complaint last November that triggered an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.
www.espn.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If I were the MLB Players Association I would be looking for new leadership immediately: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS