Peter A. McKay 📬🦋

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[Peter A. McKay 📬🦋 @peteramckay]

Moral of the story: You want to be the galaxy that's attracting new stars from the outside, not the galaxy losing them.

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@ThatEricAlper 9/11

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@DeanAbbott Sadly, as an ex-reporter @WSJ & @washingtonpost, I'd say the economics of reviving print are probably prohibitive. Plus, a very underrated marketing prob imho: Culturally, could the industry get comfortable promoting finitude as a feature, not a bug, in an era of info overload?

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@OleTimeHardball Ted and Joe D, because it would be so fun to see the old rivals play together. Then all the $1 guys, for $10 total.

Top of my lineup:

1. Ichiro RF
2. DiMaggio CF
3. Williams DH
4. Snider LF

Brock on the bench for backup/pinch running. 🙃

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@Mikey92D @Mets @baseballhall I don't think they get to pick anymore. The HOF decides.

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@BBGreatMoments A tie among umpteen Yankees in the Hall of Fame tbh. But if I had to pick one...

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@naeSean44 @sowhatsnu1 @Mets Indeed. As a 40-year Mets fan, it's hard for me to muster much anger for the front office right now while I'm still so angry at the players for *that* shit. But I'm in the minority, it seems.

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@RetLuckyLou @Mets That could only be a real curse if they'd won a WS while he *was* on the team.

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@OleTimeHardball Yes! He's the Brooks Robinson of 1B. Wasn't just great defensively; he *re-defined* how to play the position. To play it correctly, to this day, is to play it like Hernandez. Max, there are only 9 players we'll ever be able to say that about. How is that NOT a Hall Of Famer?

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@carney I'd say the trick is that it takes way longer to seep than hot coffee. But this might not happen in a busy shop.

Read this in a post on some foodie site. (Epicurious maybe?) They said to seep at least 12 hrs, which I've been doing at home since. Total game changer. Delicious!

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@GoodLuckIdiots @lady_valor_07 That device is definitely an important clue. But I think it might not be a video thingy at all. Could just be a tuner/radio for that old-school speaker on the right. Which could put this photo further back, into the '70s, as some folks have been guessing on the thread.

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@jdp1073 @OleTimeHardball That's their eras' version of tested vs untested for roids. Huge difference.

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@OleTimeHardball It's tough, but would have to go with Kershaw, as pitching is so important.

Flummoxed by the people who'd pick Morris over him tbh. Yeah, he's already in the HOF. Deservedly so. But if you need a pitcher, he's not even in the same ballpark as Kershaw.

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@AlyssaRose He should also be jealous seeing McLean make four starts in a row for the Mets.

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@ReelyFishy @ThatEricAlper My theory is that, somewhere in the bowels of the U.S. government, which gives thousands of people security clearances to access ostensibly secret info, there is at least one computer with classified info on it that uses "password" as the password.

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@ellafranco0816 I was at that game! Also attended the NLCS pennant clincher and a Subway Series game with my late father.

These are cherished memories, all provided by that 2000 team. I'm forever grateful to all of them, including your dad, in a way words can't fully express. 🙏

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@NoContextBrits As an American, I would say the answer is certainly yes in 2025. Maybe in some earlier era our sheer numbers would've made this a harder call. But not now...
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@ThatEricAlper I'm an absolute **ACE** at cut-and-paste layout/markup for print newspaper pages. 🤷‍♂️

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@SagalNuur @dom_lucre "Business famous" and "popular entertainer famous" are two different animals entirely. So are "business rich" and "popular entertainer rich."

Unsurprisingly, the "business" version of both is better.
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@roywoodjr @GunCorky Not anymore they don't. 🙃

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