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YusufToropov

@YusufToropov@toot.community

Managing director, Cara-Wordsmith.com.

Author of #SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS, the novel JIHADI, and the play AN UNDIVIDED HEART. #Ukraine #baseball #jg20mvp #1947League #mlb #gratefuldead #neurodiversity #beatles #blacklivesmatter #demsabroad #democratsabroad

Hi. I'm ...

a writer,

a US #expat living in #Ireland,

a #baseball addict,

an adult recently diagnosed with #adhd (which, looking back, explains a lot),

a #teampete enthusiast.

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YusufToropov, to Dogs
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Hello humans. My name is Commander. | was brought into the White House to live with my dad. Sadly it turned out | was untrainable as a White House dog.

So my dad didn’t shoot me - he gave me a new home with friends. Cause he is a decent human.

In November vote for my dad.


GottaLaff, to Arizona
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🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️Via Kyle Griffin:

The GOP just selected state Sen. Jake Hoffman — a fake elector indicted last week for his efforts to overturn President Biden's 2020 win in Arizona — as a national committeeman for the Republican National Committee. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-gop-taps-fake-elector-rnc-post-rcna149719

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@GottaLaff it's like half the country needs to be committed to a @#!@ insane asylum

YusufToropov,
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@GottaLaff Way ahead of you.Typing this from Ireland. Democrats Abroad = the bluest state nobody remembers

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@GottaLaff so sorry for your loss. travel safe when you make the big move

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: Supreme Court denies release to former aide Peter , serving sentence for contempt of Congress. Chief Justice Roberts previously denied the request. Now, court has without noted dissent.

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@GottaLaff *relief yes?

YusufToropov, to college
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President Biden unveils Biden-Harris administration's plan to deliver #studentloan #debtrelief to 30 million more people.

#BidenHarris2024
#college
#education #debt #studentdebt

@uspolitics

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/08/president-joe-biden-outlines-new-plans-to-deliver-student-debt-relief-to-over-30-million-americans-under-the-biden-harris-administration/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14dzSmbF_1-oRbKomavC5ruY8E8HyOzp6VcMAEsM0IlnChWuhYx9SyT5I_aem_Aek95WuWjMUVRS13vnn2SnOhKd6Zfa4hTS-El9sFhfkePz6JaSVr9jVNU_5nfbQ66SMlqFv9rIwsQ445DTYpdnnS

YusufToropov, to Oakland
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@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices @Beatlesandworms

I post this in the aftermath of 's 4th of a possible 155 victories in 2024.

Shea Langeliers drops not one, not two, but 3 HRs against Texas.

objective judgment

selfless action

willing, engaged acceptance of all events

https://youtu.be/5VuLMKZiTMY?si=KyvmvEwTf32g_rBX

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

question:

With a .346 lifetime average, you'd think today's hero, Buck Leonard, would have a spot on the all-time BA leader board. Buck doesn't have the required plate appearances. Name the highest-ranking Black star who does...and tell me where he ranks.

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Nolan just got this!

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices
When we were growing up, most of us had a flawed sense of the career major-league in ...because we weren't counting all the major leagues in .

Now we are.

Time to acknowledge: beats everyone on this list, bar Ty Cobb.

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

When I started this dice-and-cards APBA replay three years ago, I asked God for two good pennant races.

Let's hear it for answered prayers! Gotta celebrate those.

Now I want another World Championship for before the franchise decamps to (sigh) Sacramento. Please.

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

PHILS TOP RED SOX IN EXTRAS

Two hard-luck pitchers (Watson 4-10, 3.47 for PHI; Barnhill 3-5 3.39 for BOSR) settled in for an old-fashioned extra-inning pitcher's duel--the best kind. Watson came away with the win.

PHI(53-32) 0000000101 261
BOSR(36-49)0000001000 142

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Today's game brought to you by @tabletopmania and the one, the only, ....

https://youtu.be/Rbm6GXllBiw?si=Y0UlMPkvYA_PIUh_

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

The East-West All-Star Game was the contest of the year, usually held in Chicago. Debuted in 1933.

Somewhat less structured, and less profitable, was the North-South All-Star Game, which debuted in 1939.

What city was THAT held in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_All-Star_Game

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Off day for . Catch you tomorrow!

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Go Wolves!

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Wow

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

The annual North-South game, inaugurated in 1933, was held in New Orleans. (I would have guessed Kansas City or Washington, DC, too.)

Cliff got it right. Of course. :-)

https://www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues/NorthSouth.html

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

SOX AVOID SWEEP, TOP PHILS

Boston took the fourth and final game of their Fenway series against Philly.

Ted Williams's 11th HR, a two-run shot, provided the winning margin ... and ended his 0-14 batting slump.

PHI 000002030 561
BOSR00040020x 683

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

By the time Ted Williams faced Satchel Paige in a regular-season MLB game, Paige was 41 years old.

Ted's lifetime batting average: .344.

Song pick tomorrow goes to the first person to tell me, within 10 points, Teddy Ballgame's lifetime batting average against Satch.

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

... and the (perhaps predictable) outcome of our trivia contest today....

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

So this exists, and I think that's actually going to be a problem for me...

https://youtu.be/t28A6cnPxUM?si=YZaGfloxIlQCyaw0

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Predictably hilarious breakdown of the Rays/Brewers brawl from

https://youtu.be/u4Ad7XEY80A?si=gh39-5VjP6FStUdW

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

SCANTLEBURY, GIANTS TOP BROWNS IN 10TH

P Pat Scantlebury helped his own cause with a 10th-inning RBI single, then shut down the Browns for the CG win. Browns lead over NYY now just 1 game.

NYG (43-40) 0020010001 471
STLB(50-36)0100010100 393

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Today's game brought to you by my buddy Cliff and .

The version of this song that became a hit for Seger was a remake of this original track... I think I prefer his first effort.

https://youtu.be/8_Lb7imIq7Y?si=dgdox87FqoQLB--2

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@tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

question:

In what year did Pat Scantlebury make the East All Star Team?

One guess.

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