Colonel James. 🎖️

I’m the handsome, lovable, sweet guy who owns the Christmas tree farm in your hometown, in the Hallmark movie of your life. Honorable Kentucky Colonel.

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@TheSports_Shift Nobody does throwbacks like the @SFGiants

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@LarrySabato

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@JimA6to4to3 @Seth_3773 LTNS - Let’s not. Nerds suck.

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@TheSports_Shift Billy Paultz

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@Motivational__G This is my answer

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@JimA6to4to3 @Seth_3773 Hey Jim. LTNS.

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@Seth_3773 All true!

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@jfortner88 For a second, I thought that was Jeff Rosenthal

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@NatashaCL7 D*mn.

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There was only one Yogi.
@lindsayberra @YogiBerraMuseum

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"When Phil Rizzuto became ill towards end of his life, he was put in assisted living facility, 30 minutes away from where Yogi lived.
Every single day, because teammates were important to him, Yogi would drive there and play cards with Phil.
When Phil would start to fall asleep, Yogi would hold his hand."
Micheal Kay.

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@CanadianBeave13 @OfficeofSteve Correct. Never. Nope.

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@shegone03 @MLBPA The hill to die on in these negotiations is in restoring the minor league system. The colleges are not producing players with basic fundamental skills or a baseball IQ.

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@shegone03 @MLBPA “The Owners are not to be trusted just like they were when we went on strike in 1994!” 94 was right after Selig and Reinsdorf were convicted of collusion. What trust? (That’s right kids, before he was commissioner, Bud Selig got caught colluding to lower player salaries)

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@Jimfrombaseball Isn’t this the Gates Brown hot dog story?

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@shegone03 @TheJudge44

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My latest. Sorry, it’s not baseball. Read it anyway.

[Herald de Paris ⚜️ @HeralddeParis]

THE SHADOW CONSTELLATION
Today’s wars are shaped less by armies than by satellites, algorithms, and the economic calculations of the states that deploy them. The Shadow Constellation investigates how this new architecture of conflict emerged — and why its consequences reach far beyond the regions where fighting is visible.

A new article by James Sved
https://t.co/F7hQ0R5AAE

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@pnaught13 @ClintHurdle13 @20Hojo The NYC media would eat your BC *ss for lunch. Look what they did to Bo.

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So the Mets need a manager. I can think of two good in-family candidates among my Twitter friends - @ClintHurdle13 and @20Hojo

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@theliamnissan Always, Datsun

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What I don’t understand is how he is showcasing female baseball talent by striking them all out.

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Ichero is remarkable.

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Ichiro Suzuki is 52 years old.

He last played in the Majors in 2019. He's already in the Hall of Fame. He has nothing left to prove to anyone on a baseball field.

On Sunday at the Tokyo Dome, he threw a complete game shutout.

127 pitches. 17 strikeouts. Zero runs.

Here's what the game is. Every year, Ichiro hosts an All-Star game against the best high school girls baseball players in Japan. It was created to grow women's baseball in a country where girls have had almost no path in the sport, and it's become one of the biggest showcases they get. Ichiro doesn't show up for an inning and wave. He pitches the whole thing, at full effort, because he believes treating them like real competition is the entire point.

And he was better this year than last.

In 2024 he threw a 116-pitch shutout with nine strikeouts. This year, two years older, he threw eleven more pitches and struck out eight more batters.

One Japanese fan summed it up perfectly online: what's most monstrous isn't the strikeouts, it's that after 127 pitches his velocity and command never dropped off.

Then he walked off the mound, sweat still on him, and did a 30-minute talk show, cracking jokes the whole time.

This is the same guy who, last month, hit eight home runs in the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby. At 51.

Afterward, he explained why he keeps doing it.

"I wanted to see what my current limits were, and this gave me confidence in myself."

Ichiro collected 4,367 professional hits between Japan and the Majors. He's one of the greatest hitters who ever lived. And somehow, at 52, the more interesting story is what he can still do with his arm.

The man simply refuses to be done.

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