This sucks

I propose Cal and Judge settle this debate by swapping positions for the final series of the season. Let’s get the gear on ya, Aaron!

Ever wonder what happens to kids who wash out of travel baseball in high school?

2025 makes shitposting impossible Ryder Cup team is off to a disastrous start and I'm jokingly thinking "The Big Man is gonna head over and start making some changes" and like five minutes later Air Force One is actually flying over the course.

Mike Macdonald is wasting Sam Darnold's prime. Is this anything?

I agree who is Taylor Swift?

By fWAR Aaron Judge is 50.7% better than the 2nd-best right-fielder (9.8 to 6.5) Cal Raleigh is 219.5% better than the 2nd-best catcher (9.0 to 4.1)

in August at his number retirement ceremony, Ichiro urged the 2025 Mariners to "seize the moment" new for Yahoo Sports, on Seattle's successful embrace of the mantra, and Cal Raleigh delivering another storybook swing (or two) to clinch the AL West at long last: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

Happy the Seahawks won.

This was back in Aug 9

the answer is easy: vibes based mvp, you know who wins immediately

It's gonna be an awesome week next week for The Light Bat; Playoff preview, multiple podcasts, heretofore unknowable shenanigans, etc. We're getting closer and closer to 1,000 subscribers. You can drop $5/mo to help out or get on board totally free! Thanks y'all! thelightbat.substack.com

Announcement: I have unilaterally exercised my authority and am hereby claiming all the good and cool parts of College Football Blue Sky (the best sports community on this site) as Mariner fans for the remainder of the season. Welcome to the fold, friends.

BONUS LIGHT BAT: There is no precedent in baseball history for a player having Cal Raleigh's season and not winning the MVP. After last night, the award is his. open.substack.com/pub/thelight...

You can cast almost all blame directly on John Roberts and the Supreme Court if Cal Raleigh wins MVP. Their brazen politicization and willingness to defend Trump’s illegal acts at every turn means the American public’s respect for Judges has never been lower.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. No seriously this is the American League's best baseball player

"most valuable" argument: the Yankees have shown plenty of times this century that they can win the division without Aaron Judge, but the Mariners could only do it with literally Ichiro Suzuki around that one time. Ergo Cal Raleigh is like if Sisyphus actually got the boulder all the way up the hill

Good morning this still me

@stevengodfrey.bsky.social happy for you and your Mariner fandom tonight brother.

Hang the banner.

cal can swear as much as he wants on the air the fcc is too busy fighting with comedians

I haven’t heard this many people arguing about Raleigh vs. Judge since Sir Walter was accused of trying to remove King James I from the throne and was ultimately sent by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury to the Tower of London in 1603.

Dan Wilson hitting me with scripture when my baseball team wins the pennant

Yeah just broke down. I am weak and haven’t felt this with baseball in a long, long, long, long time. I hope you enjoyed it.

Simply the greatest regular season by any mariner ever. I have no idea how to put it into context. Go crazy folks.

I had the Mariners Whole Deal in an absolute rocking chair rhythm for pretty much an entire decade up until 19 days ago and now I simply do not know how to think or feel (complimentary)

The ol’ credit card thinking about all the tickets and shirts and memorabilia I’m buying the next month or so

Done with work. Time to get in the zone

Playoff-bound Light Bat: Over the years the Mariners (and God) have turned me into an existential mess haunted by history. Yesterday - with a big old hat tip to the Colorado Rockies - was a good kick in the ass to remember the present. open.substack.com/pub/thelight...

Baseball is a beautiful game. Yesterday was a Top 10 regular season moment in Mariners history and for 2/3 of the night the team was being completely dominated by a pitcher with a name from Super Mega Baseball.

Me IRL when the Mariners rally off the following sequence: HBP, BB, HBP, 2B

Mariner fans deserve this and so so so much more. What a fun team.

Mariner fans being forced to the brink of calling 911 on a home plate umpire is basically I wanted when I circled this series against the Rockies back in May.

“The Rockies bullpen is up”

Here on Rapture Day, I should tell you about my $3 ebook that includes an 80-page "the Rapture happened, and a group of ex-evangelical young women were left behind" novella, spinning off of my novel. Only available here:

Rapture II: HELL RAPTURE (Starring the Houston Astros) has already happened btw

If you don’t get got in the Rapture today, that’s ok. You have plenty of time to catch up on all the lore and content still to go. 1,007 years until the main event, actually. See below

it's called NFL REDZONE because it's for communists, and it has no commercials on it, also because it's for communists

Fact-finding

THE WINDS ARE HOWLING AND THE WOLVES ARE AT THE DOOR YOU HAVE NOT EATEN IN A WEEK WHERE IS YOUR HEAD AT CARLOS

Ready to wrap up the AL West

I really missed kicking the absolute piss out of other football teams

Rumors of Seahawks

The early football is confirming my long-held belief that all quarterbacks are bad (besides Daniel Jones of course)

The Mariners are in a great position no matter what happens today, but the difference between a win and loss in this one is still pretty massive. It's almost impossible to lose the division with a win today.

the Mariners win 13 of their last 14 and look what that causes

I’m a pretty stoic sports fan these days but yesterday was big “Nathan makes loud noises at a well-attended birthday party to the surprise and alarm of many” hours for me and my good friends the Seattle Mariners.