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I want to pitch a miniseries to HBO about the friendship between Christy Mathewson and John McGraw (and the hijinks and exploits of the 1900s Giants) with “imagine Dick Winters and Lewis Nixon if they were 78% less in love with each other” as the selling point
— Oct 25, 2025 05:19PM
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Katie Dowd
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the phrase “high church of baseball” solidified my take that baseball is the most Episcopalian sport
— Nov 01, 2025 11:26PM
Katie Dowd
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choose your fighter: the superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum saying in the 1890s that baseball “gives the lunatics a new kind of crazing to relieve them of the malady which afflicts their minds” vs. my therapist saying to me last month, “for the sake of your health you need to give up on the Mets and get a girlfriend”
— Oct 17, 2025 08:10PM
