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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 06:13:29 JST Steve's Place

   I forgot to mention that Christopher Russo probably exploded a few capillaries in a day-long rant about MLB's treatment of Pete Rose.

   "Everywhere you look in Cooperstown, it's Pete Rose! It's a freaking shrine to Pete Rose! The only thing that's missing is a plaque! Every record he set, they sent the bat, the ball, to Cooperstown!" - made-up sample for illustrative purposes only.

   He was spitting fire against MLB. Hit on my favorite re Barry Bonds - no owner ever banned them from showing up at their ballpark to fill the thing and make tons of money for the owners.

   My late father's law partner became president of the California Bar Assn., and the annual audits were time-consuming when dear old dad was handling both of their cases, so they merged into another firm. That firm has as a partner Allen Ruby, Barry Bonds' attorney.

   The then-called legal secretaries had a pecking order for who did the most work for the firm. Allen had over 3 filing cabinets full of open cases. He won.

   So, in addition to being a huge Barry Bonds fan, I might have a minor bias in favor of athletes over league management.

   "Now, everywhere you look, it's Draft Kings and what's the other one? They post the odds with the games! He bet on his own team to win!"

   Pete was a jerk. Barry was a jerk to media. There are far worse people enshrined in Cooperstown who were never banned from baseball.

   Remember when the now extremely pro-gambling MLB banned Mickey freaking Mantle because he was spokesperson for a casino?

   It was a glorious rant.

   #MLB #PeteRose #MadDogRusso

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   martyn_clayton (martyn_clayton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 23:37:36 JST martyn_clayton

   After a few days here I'm really happy with my decision.

   It feels a much more supportive and encouraging place. It also feels less passive, as if we're shaping our own community not having it moulded by algorithms or owners.

   My original intention was to leave my X account with a link here but I think even doing that means some form of accommodation with the platform and what it stands for. So I went on today to deactivate.

   I'm so glad there's an alternative with a very different ethos.

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   Gvido (gvido@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 21:46:19 JST Gvido

   (Please boost for reach, I don't have much of a network, thanks 💕)

   Hi #fediverse
   I've been working on an #activitypub application with some self-imposed ux constraints in regards to instance owners.

   My main goals

   1. Anyone with basic technical skills, in less than an hour, can set up an instance, and keep it running without sysadmin skills.

   3. Besides the domain registration cost, most small instances should be free to host, and should not suffer from bad performance because of this.

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