New Jersey born and raised. Notre Dame Class of '98. Sports editor/writer. SABR member.

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Joined August 2009
Hinchliffe Stadium has reopened. I took a look back at its history through the 29 baseball Hall of Famers (plus a few others) who are part of its story. mlb.com/news/featured/a-hist…
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ChipPurr Jones with the cutest first pitch you've seen all year.
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Had a pretzel bite the other night that looks like an old-timey baseball glove. #winning
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Great stuff.
Throwback Thursday. The 1992 NBC broadcast of Notre Dame - Boston College checked in on the filming of Rudy, with scenes being shot at halftime. Cris Collinsworth thought they should put him in.
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Still not sure he would do it.
Notre Dame should just say screw it, you’re on.
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Oh man, this was a surprise. Such sad news. He was really nice talking to me a couple years ago about wearing No. 42. mlb.com/news/former-mlb-play…
We are saddened to learn about the passing of former Met Butch Huskey.
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There were 48 trades in the final 28 hours before the deadline h/t @NJ_baseball
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I always try to stop in for a drink at the Fire Bar (except for Induction Weekend, of course)
There may be no more chill spot on the planet, in my opinion. Just a few blocks from @BaseballHall.
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I think most impressive is the Mets have a .526 winning percentage when he's there!
Replying to @MattMonagan
His log sheet is a treasure trove of data: 13 no-hitters, 200-plus games a year since the late 80s, nearly 3,000 Yankee games, matchups in Australia, Japan and London. AND … 42% of all Mets games ever played. Shouts to @eddiesofficials for putting it all together.
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Of COURSE noted weather enthusiast Mike Trout homered off Weathers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! h/t @NJ_baseball
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Angel at the Tomb of Christ, by Benjamin West, 1813, 📸 by @HancockPhoto
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"We had a lot of fun with the #Yankees, because winning is fun. But we didn't know what real fun was until we joined the #Mets." - Grammy Carmen 🙏⚾️❤️
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This just sold for $10 million
On the Road' Original Scroll (image: Christie's) Jack Kerouac would’ve been 104 today, and his “Original Scroll”—the first draft of his seminal novel, On the Road—is once again on the auction block. Written in just three weeks in April 1951 on a 120-foot scroll made from sheets of tracing paper cut to size and taped together, On the Road debuted Kerouac’s signature jazz-infused “spontaneous prose,” tapped into the long tradition of the continental odyssey in American fiction, and inspired a “rucksack revolution.” The Jack Kerouac Estate first put the Scroll up for auction in 2001. It was purchased for $2.43 million by Jim Irsay, late owner of the Indianapolis Colts and avid collector of objects associated with legendary figures in history, music, film, literature, and sport. Murmurs of misgiving circulated throughout the Kerouac community; some expressed concern that such an important artifact would end up locked away in a vault and nobody would get to see it again. To assuage these fears, Irsay released a photo of himself holding the Scroll, and announced it would be going on tour, making stops in cities across the country where it would be on public exhibition, free of charge. It was displayed at the New York Public Library, alongside Kerouac papers and other artifacts from the Berg Collection. The Scroll, along with many other items from the Jim Irsay Collection, toured the country many times until Irsay’s death in May of 2025. Now the On the Road Scroll—along with the rest of Irsay’s collection—is on the auction block again. Bidding at Christie’s Auction House in NYC starts today at 5pm EDT. Christie’s estimates the Scroll might sell for $2.5 – $4 million.
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Happy 104th birthday, Jack Kerouac. mlb.com/news/featured/jack-k…
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We went to this event last year, and it's a blast! My only critique about the article is that it didn't mention the Pumpkin Drop, when they hoist a giant gourd up several stories with a crane and drop it onto a field behind a school. (Unless it was nixed this year.) nytimes.com/2025/10/25/style…
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