Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes Twitter profile

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Nationals announce Dr. Anthony Fauci will throw out the first pitch on Opening Day, calling him “a true champion for our country.” #2020

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President Trump was just shown on the video board, and the crowd unloaded all its boos. Crowd now chanting "lock him up."

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A white man just told a Black woman that saying there is systemic racism in the criminal justice system is "an insult" as a fly landed on his head, and that is all I'll say about that.

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Scene as Warren was settling in for a post-debate MSNBC interview in the spin room and noticed she had a water bottle on camera: “Wait a minute, I’m advertising someone’s water here.” (Hands water bottle to someone) “I’d rather advertise democracy.”

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5 years

Booker, asked if he talked to Obama as he finalized his decision: “I miss Obama, and I miss her husband, too.”

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Pete Buttigieg on Chick-Fil-A: "I do not approve of their politics. I kind of approve of their chicken. Maybe if nothing else, I can build that bridge. Maybe I'll be in a position to broker that peace deal."

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3 years

Max Scherzer on the vaccine: "For me, I tend to follow science. I try to listen to what the scientists say, what the experts say. So for me, I see a benefit in it and I can't wait to get it."

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2 years

Spencer Torkelson was born in 1999. His first major league hit just came against Rich Hill, who was born in 1899. Absolutely wild.

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5 years

Nats had already confirmed that while POTUS plans to attend Game 5 (if needed), he won’t throw out the first pitch. Who will? José Andrés, Michelin-starred chef who offered free meals to furloughed workers during the shutdown, fed millions of meals to Puerto Ricans after Maria.

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7 months

Hey there, I’m the other reporter who reported what Arcia said in the clubhouse Monday night. I didn’t name him because I didn’t see who said it. But I’m sick of watching people, particularly colleagues in the media, criticize my friend @Jake_Mintz for it. A

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3 years

A little update: Covering the 2020 presidential campaign was an incredible, unforgettable, humbling adventure and the honor of a lifetime. I couldn't be more grateful for that or for this: starting today, I'll be the national baseball writer at the Washington Post.

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4 years

When you’re getting your hair done but a VP candidate shows up:

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5 years

Ridiculous. Lost for words. Women in baseball clubhouses have such a high tolerance for borderline intolerable things. The idea that anyone would make this up... Also, we define “a difficult time” differently. He gave up a homer. He hadn’t been, you know, beaten up by a spouse.

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@Chandler_Rome

5 years

The Astros just released the following statement.

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5 years

Still stunned at the fact that Juan Soto had the wherewithal to think "If I hit a monster home run here, in Game 6 of the World Series, when I am 21 years old, then I must carry the bat all the way to first to troll Bregman." Like, some things the rest of us just can't plan for.

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5 years

Klobuchar on stories describing an abusive office environment: "Yes, I can be tough. And yes, I can push people. I know that...I have, I’d say, high expectations for myself. I have high expectations for the people who work for me. And I have high expectations for this country."

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5 years

Some news: The Winter Meetings will be my last days on the Nationals beat. Starting soon, I’ll be joining the Post’s coverage of the 2020 presidential campaign, and I’m so honored to have that opportunity.

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11 months

I think about gay players. No one protects their feelings. Gay fans. The little kid that looks out and sees a prominent sports league full of their heroes saying “you don’t have to accept gay people if you don’t want. That’s not something we require.” Humanity is not an opinion.

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5 years

Ryan Zimmerman has been a National since Juan Soto was six.

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1 year

RIP. Reminds me of what I consider one of the greatest lines in the history of the Washington Post, from the great Shirley Povich: “Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday.”

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@AP_NFL

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BREAKING: Jim Brown, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate, has died. He was 87.

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6 years

The Nats put tonight’s game on for their youngsters at their academy in the Dominican Republic. If you thought this crowd went wild when Soto homered... well, this is pretty special.

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5 years

Got the call. Post made a late addition to the World Series roster. Meeting the team in Houston. Not worried about the layoff.

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5 years

Simone Biles just did a casual flip and threw a near-strike in front of 40,000 people so like Olympians are just like us or something.

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2 years

Manfred: "We've agreed to a universal designated hitter and eliminated draft pick compensation."

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2 years

Dusty just slipped out of the Astros celebration to meet Aaron Boone at the door to the visitors’ clubhouse. Boone came to give champagne-soaked Dusty a hug. “I always love you, you know that,” Dusty told him.

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Sir Patrick Stewart just gave Pete Buttigieg (who is hosting Jimmy Kimmel) a signed, original Star Trek Next Generation script, and I haven’t seen Buttigieg look this happy since an Iowan asked him about sewer systems.

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3 years

Scherzer: "This is where my family started. I came here without kids, now I've got three kids...it's been a very fun experience for me being in DC. What can you say about the fans? That's where that championship will always mean something to all of us."

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5 years

Q: “What can a president do to reverse the anti-intellectualism in this country?” Harris: “Read.”

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5 years

Buttigieg’s campaign announces it hit the 65,000 donors required for a place on the debate stage.

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@chelsea_janes

7 months

And if the Braves let this be the story of their series, that’s on them. Win and it goes away. Period.

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4 years

Harris answered a shouted question about how she and Biden plan to win the Hispanic vote. Amateur footage here.

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2 years

“My hands are tied… I don’t make the decision,” Soto said. He is under, uh, close supervision.

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Buttigieg has taken four questions from voters so far at a town hall at Grinnell. One said his campaign is “spreading lies” about higher education, another has asked him what he was thinking during his handling of South Bend shooting because it “really upset her.”

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@chelsea_janes

3 years

Max Scherzer saw me on the field in Arizona: “I thought I got rid of you!”

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@chelsea_janes

2 years

MLB announces its owners have agreed to provide housing for all minor leaguers except those with major league contracts or making more than six figures. Estimates that will be 90 percent of all minor leaguers at all levels.

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4 years

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7 months

Shouldn’t say that with cameras around? 2) Suggesting you shouldn’t report something said in the presence of MORE THAN A DOZEN reporters because it “wasn’t meant to get out?” is suggesting reporters should be protecting players from themselves. That’s not our job. It’s theirs.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

@BruceBartlett Having never met you, I would never want to assume you’re implying that I can’t understand politics just because I understand sports. Would love to chat and reassure you sometime. I’m easy to find.

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@chelsea_janes

7 months

And 3) HE SAID ATTABOY HARPER. It wasn’t a slur. It wasn’t hateful. It was trash talk and the only reason anyone cares that it got out is because they know it would motivate Harper to beat them. Which implies the Braves do not feel they can handle a motivated Bryce Harper and are

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@chelsea_janes

2 years

Dusty Baker just brought out the lineup card for the Astros. The Nationals sent out… Darren Baker.

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3 years

Terrifying moments. True colors.

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2 months

Walked into the Nats clubhouse to see everyone circled around, Riley Adams wearing latex gloves, and people yelling at intervals. Apparently they all put in money on box of rare baseball cards and it finally arrived.

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@chelsea_janes

3 years

A woman will be Vice President of the United States.

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@chelsea_janes

11 months

$800,000 x 81 home games = $64.8M Current A’s Payroll, per Spotrac: <$42.7M Not a math major, so it’s possible I’m crazy. But isn’t it slightly wild this number was made public?

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11 months

We are proud to donate all ticket revenue from tonight’s game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and the Oakland Public Education Fund to support their impactful work in the East Bay!

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2 years

Steve Cohen on whether his Mets will go over the Cohen threshold: “We probably will.” On having the tax named after him, informally: “It’s better than having a bridge named after you.”

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7 months

I didn’t say something sooner because I thought this was overblown. And frankly, I thought it wouldn’t help. But I am genuinely disgusted by the way some media members are acting like a reporter was in the wrong for this. He wasn’t.

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Warren: "I’d like to talk about who we’re running against - a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Michael Bloomberg."

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@chelsea_janes

8 months

Shohei Ohtani broke a sign last night. The Mets are not over it.

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2 years

Buck Showalter on whether Darin Ruf has a shot to be on the playoff roster: “Everyone here today has a shot…all of God’s children have a chance. They’re all somebody’s son.”

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

Max Scherzer is in tears. He’s crying. Nobody puts more into this than he does. And nobody deserves this more.

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Buttigieg was asked if anything makes him angry: “It’s an important discipline in my life to not get overly animated over the things that piss me off, but that’s precisely because there are so many of them.”

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

I’m leaving for Iowa in a few hours. So for now, I leave you all with this:

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3 years

A similar tweet was not sent to the current president about Opening Day 2017.

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@Nationals

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We look forward to hosting President-Elect Biden on Opening Day of the 2021 season. @JoeBiden // #NATITUDE

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

The Nationals have spent about 90 percent of this season and postseason somewhere between miraculously alive and not quite dead yet, so this game is actually very on brand.

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@chelsea_janes

3 years

Tatis and Machado let fans into the dugout for safety

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@andrewcgolden

3 years

Here at Nats Park as fans are making their way out of the stadium. Talked to a fan who said the spectators in section 112-113 ducked down when they heard gunshots and everyone followed suit. Tatis and Machado opened the gate to the field and took fans to the dugout.

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7 months

Willing to suggest that is why they lost the other day. Otherwise, why not laugh it off? And frankly, shouldn’t everyone in the Atlanta clubhouse have far greater concerns after an 10-2 loss than whether Bryce Harper is mad at their shortstop? They lost by 8!

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1 year

Kyle Schwarber, almost jovially, on being just the second team to be no-hit in the World Series. “I really don’t give a shit.”

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5 years

Davey on Zim hitting their first World Series homer in Nationals history: “I’ll be honest with you, I got a little teary eyed for him.”

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3 years

Fernando Tatis Jr. keeps running over to the bucket of balls and grabbing a bunch so that he and his teammates can throw them into the stands. Good. For. The. Game.

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@chelsea_janes

4 years

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, a Harris endorser, praised Harris’s temperament on the stage “because I would have body-slammed Tulsi. That’s why she’s running and I’m not.”

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@chelsea_janes

3 years

Juan Soto is in the front row at Dodger Stadium tonight with Scott Boras. He’s wearing a Trea Turner jersey. Wanted to come support his former teammates.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

You’re welcome.

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7 months

1) He yelled the phrase when cameras and recorders were rolling. I have audio. Had he done it at a slightly different moment, a camera sending an interview live to the truck might have caught it. Would you be eviscerating that network? Or would you say,

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6 years

There is no doubt in my mind that DC needed this moment to remember why it fell in love with Bryce Harper...and that Bryce Harper needed this moment to remember that he's still the guy they fell in love with.

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2 years

Guy who graduated from one of Canada’s best business schools with really good grades

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5 years

Think of what the Lerners have been through. Think of how Zim has seen this franchise grow. Think of how Davey had a foot out the door. Think of how Strasburg changed his legacy. Think of how Rizzo cemented his.

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@chelsea_janes

7 months

Cameras were rolling. Recorders were rolling. In fact, last night, I asked Arcia if he knows recorders are rolling in the clubhouse. He said, through his interpreter, that “there are. I don’t know that they have to be there, but they are.”

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1 year

Kyle Tucker on what he said to McCormick as he was lying in center field after the catch. “I was like, come on Chas, get up.”

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@chelsea_janes

3 years

Something I hadn't heard from a player before: Pete Alonso just told reporters his theory, which he says is widespread among players, that MLB manipulates the baseballs year-to-year based on free agent class. Pointed to juiced ball of 2019 before a lot of pitchers hit the

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4 years

Buttigieg just cancelled his trip to South Florida tomorrow. Had three fundraisers scheduled.

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1 year

If you had drawn up a worst case Nats five-year scenario entering Bryce Harper's free agent winter, I would say Harper and Turner in Philly, Scherzer as Met, Strasburg battling potential career-ending injury, and Soto long gone would be close to it. If not for the title in '19...

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5 years

Anthony Rendon takes matters into his own hands after watching his best friend, Trea Turner, be wronged. Wow.

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5 years

Davey just got thrown out of this game. He had to be restrained. And everyone in DC is living vicariously through him.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

Here comes Doolittle. Nats are hoping he will actually do a lot. I will not apologize for this tweet.

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3 years

Trea Turner said he didn’t know Soto and Long were coming to the game. Said it was one of the coolest things that’s happened to him and probably will ever happen to him.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

Well, that was fun. Nats world, I know you’d thought you’d gotten rid of me, so thanks for putting up with me for a couple extra weeks. Time to board a flight to Iowa. See you from the campaign trail soon.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

I don't usually say that, but in this case, it's egregious because it changes the game so dramatically. Turner ran straight down the first base line on the dirt. That's an absolutely unacceptable call.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

That is a horrendous call.

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Harris said her new usual “let’s look at the rap sheet” on President Trump. A woman in the audience yelled “but I have to be somewhere at 5!” It’s 11:30 central time.

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5 years

Harris on Trump's role in the shootings: "No, he didn't pull the trigger. But he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition."

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2 years

Players are currently considering walking away from the table, per a person familiar with their plans. Made what they felt was a substantive offer and owners rejected it. Players furious.

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9 months

BREAKING: A puppy is eating Adley Rutschman’s shoe. The vibes in Baltimore are… unparalleled.

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3 years

Soto hit the longest homer of the first round at 520 feet. Some call that "sneaky pop." I, having watched him hit an opposite field bomb onto the train tracks against Gerrit Cole in the World Series, call it unsurprising.

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5 months

If Shohei Ohtani chooses not to go to the Dodgers because Dave Roberts told the truth about their unspoken but incredibly obvious pursuit of a once-in-a-lifetime talent, then we will all learn a lot more about Shohei Ohtani from that than from anything he’s said in years.

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In the greatest evidence yet of the massive damage 2020 caused to the space-time continuum: the Iowa caucuses were A YEAR AGO today. Feels like it’s been a decade.

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@chelsea_janes

5 years

They should have known you would misinterpret this, and they’re sorry if you’re offended.

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The Astros say reports of them losing the first two games at home are "misleading and completely irresponsible."

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Lot of planes carrying big banners flying over CBP this week. Spotted this afternoon: “Dr. Oz is a Yankees fan. Vote Fetterman.”

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3 years

Braves fans booed former really solid Atlanta ballplayer Dusty Baker, who didn't have anything to do with Astros scandal. So that's where tonight has started.

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Hearing this Philly crowd is confirmation of one of the driving principles of my approach to life: The angstier you are at all times, the happier you are at the best times. Words to live by. This place is so alive.

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2 years

I’ve typed and deleted so many tweets about this, but honestly it’s just profoundly disappointing. Totally unsurprising. Profoundly disappointing.

Sports by Tampa Bay Times

@TBTimes_Sports

2 years

In an effort to make their commitment to the LGBTQ+ community more visible, the Rays added rainbow-colored logos to their Pride Night caps and uniforms. But not all players wanted to be included. #Rays #PrideNight

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1 year

“Can you touch your hair?” this child just asked @JeffPassan , in one of the more incredible winter meetings scenes I’ve seen.

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4 years

Another voter is now telling Buttigieg that he’s been “disappointed” by what he calls Buttigieg’s backtracking on progressive policies during his campaign, particularly the Green New Deal. Asks how voters can trust him at a time when big change is needed.

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Dodgers PR guarded Ohtani’s locker as he changed, then told reporters he would not be speaking. When reporters surrounded his locker, asking if he had a second anyway, he walked by and out of the clubhouse saying what the Japanese reporters translated as “have a good night.”

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2 years

MLB announced the Nationals will face the Phillies in next year’s game in Williamsport.

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2 years

As expected all year, Kyle Schwarber steals the first base of the World Series and secures free tacos for all of America.

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4 years

Kamala Harris tested negative for covid-19 again today, per her campaign.

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5 years

I have been at a campaign event for five minutes. I have already had a conversation about Bryce Harper.

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4 years

Don’t know what I’m supposed to feel, but watching players kneeling, DC Washington singing, Fauci...trying and Max warming made me pretty emotional. The world is scary and overwhelming and requiring so much of so many, and a game is just a game. But I’m still so glad it’s back.

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6 years

Trump impersonator met Kim Jong Un impersonator, and they left peacefully together. The Olympic Spirit at its best.

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6 years

Look who’s here. (Not really.)

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6 years

Mike Rizzo just reached out with this message: "Bryce is not going anywhere. I believe in this team."

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5 years

The Astros are falling apart and if you're a Nats fan who doesn't believe in magic you might want to start rethinking things now.

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5 years

What I love about baseball is that so many people rush to be first to explain why X team isn’t good enough to do X, etc and meanwhile the right prediction for 2019 was “Anibal Sanchez will pitch the Harper-less Nats to a shutout win in Game 1 of the NLCS.”

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