Nick Scott

Business degrees, civil servant heart.
Fmr/Future Civil Rights Investigator.
Posts don't reflect/inform my views.
Be well, do good work, keep in touch. (he/him)

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

State run media, state owned enterprises, prosecuting political opponents, gifts from foreign countries, selling pardons, massive amounts of money flowing into the President’s bank account, and banners with his head plastered on government buildings. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.

[Chris Cochran @bestcoastbias]

Managers need to let their dudes be dudes especially in September. I promise you if you put a microphone in front of Munoz right now he would say he wanted to be out there in the 10th. Same with Speier. Speier has thrown 23 pitches over the last 2 days.

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@TridentTrue Update: Tough One Tonight

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@TridentTrue I get that Ward is more expensive, but it hasn't worked. Why is he starting? Lefty/righty is outweighed when you're below .175

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

Mariners take the lead in the 10th, and BAZARDO WARMING UP IN THE PEN. Y'all. Be so serious right now. Munoz can go 3 days in a row. Probably needs to, after yesterday.

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@JoeVeyera It saved me zero minutes when I left after the anniversary weekend, but it was off peak time.

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@BenRanieri10 It was such a treat having him and @GaryHillJr call an away series on TV last year. Gonna make sure Radio is going the rest of the season, just to soak it up.

[Punchoutpitch @Punchoutpitch]

The Cardinals players are wearing their hats crooked tonight

Last night Doug Eddings demanded that pitcher Hancel Rincon (in his MLB debut) straighten out his hat

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

👟 Repost to Win 👟

It’s Fan Appreciation Night, so we’re giving away two pairs of Air Griffey Max 1 shoes signed by The Kid himself! All you need to do is hit that repost button for a chance to win. #TridentsUp

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@alexSSN The first couple years watching Servais learn when to make the call were rough but this has been brutal

[Cowboy @COWBS]

The mariners are serving Jimothy cocktails in a trash can with a raccoon tail and they all sold out before the first pitch.

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@JimHawley5 @alexSSN It's not the Trident's fault. It actually says "Turn the Tide"

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Hayden Panettiere died at 36. Toxicology is pending, and I won't speculate about what killed her. But I want to say something about what her death should force us to confront, because I think we're going to get this wrong the way we always do.

She had already done everything we tell people to do. She spoke publicly about addiction. She named the postpartum depression. She wrote the memoir. She was told her liver damage could kill her within five years and she said it out loud, in interviews, to an audience of millions. She did the disclosure. She did the reckoning. She got the applause for being brave.

And she died at 36 anyway.

Here's the uncomfortable thing I need you to understand: that is not a contradiction. That is the disease. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder with high fatality rates even among people who have insight, support, resources, and genuine periods of sobriety. Relapse is not a moral failure or evidence that someone wasn't really trying. For a substantial percentage of patients, it is the expected clinical course. The body does not care how eloquently you articulated your trauma, or how many people celebrated your journey.

We have built an entire cultural performance around public recovery, and we have quietly confused disclosure with protection. Someone tells their story. We call it progress. We share the interview. We buy the book. And we feel, collectively, that something has been solved. Nothing has been solved. The underlying drivers remain exactly where they were — untreated or incompletely treated psychiatric illness, unaddressed trauma, easy access to potent opioids, the neurobiology of tolerance and craving that does not respond to insight, and the systems and people who enabled it in the first place.

A memoir is not a treatment plan. And I want to say something specific about naloxone, because it's the piece most misunderstood. Naloxone reverses opioid-induced respiratory depression. It is extraordinary. It saves lives when it reaches someone in time, and everyone reading this should have it and know how to use it. In most states you can get it at a pharmacy without a prescription. But naloxone is harm reduction, not treatment. It buys minutes. It does not rewire the circuitry that drives someone back to the next dose after years of trying to stop.

And in my own field, I'll add the part rarely said: opioid overdose kills through respiratory arrest that becomes cardiac arrest. By the time the heart stops, hypoxic injury to the brain and heart may already be irreversible. The window is measured in minutes. Which is precisely why the drug has to already be in the room, and why someone has to be there to give it.

Here is what actually reduces mortality, and it is unglamorous:

Medication for opioid use disorder — buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone. These substantially reduce overdose death, and they remain badly underused, badly stigmatized, and hard to access. If you take one clinical fact from this post, take that one. Treating the psychiatric illness underneath, properly and continuously — not as an afterthought to the addiction. Naloxone in the home, in the bag, at the workplace, everywhere. And sustained care long after the public has moved on — which is the thing our attention span is structurally incapable of providing.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died of this same physiology, under the same mechanism, without a single headline. We notice when the face is familiar. We extend more grace when there's a redemption arc attached. That selective attention is itself part of the problem — because it means our response is shaped by narrative rather than by mortality data.

Toxicology will eventually clarify the mechanism. It will not answer the harder question: why a woman who had already named the danger, with every resource available to her, still ended here at 36. That question belongs to all of us — to medicine, to an industry that consumed her from childhood, and to a culture that prefers the drama of a fall and a partial recovery over the tedious, expensive, imperfect work of keeping people alive for decades.

Addiction is not a story. It is a high-mortality disease. We should treat it like one — with medication, with sustained care, with naloxone in every home, and with a great deal less applause for disclosure and a great deal more funding for treatment.

Rest in peace, Hayden. Thirty-six.

[Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins]

Having gambling adds on the wall in the Field of Dreams game is a tough break for Shoeless Joe Jackson

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@groldrush

[Val @Val_Italo]

Final seconds before totality in Spain, featuring the huge prominence that stole the show!

Watch to the end for a close up!

[PHILADELPHison @AddisonDJenkins]

a good what

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

So wait he's not injured anymore and we didn't bring him back up??? Why are we wasting him down there??

[Tacoma Rainiers @RainiersLand]

RYAN BLISS RACES INTO THE RECORD BOOKS!

Bliss has 95 career stolen bases with the Rainiers, setting a new career franchise record! Congrats, Ryan!

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

The Constitution does NOT give you rights. You already have them.

The Constitution simply tells the government that it cannot take those s rights away.

I wish more people understood this.

[Nick Scott @NScottMT]

@SMB_Attorney Montana has a philanthropic helicopter rescue team that will go anywhere in the region to help, with no bill. Two Bear Air, administered by a fmr Sequoia Capital guy, Mike Goguen.