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Editor @TB_Times, a newsroom that won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in 2021-2022. Former: @oregonian @cironline @journalsentinel @ocregister

Joined September 2009
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I’ve got a Barrelman bobblehead in the home office and this is By FAR my favorite coffee mug. But go #Rays tonight. Let’s see three more baseball games in 2026. #RaysUp #worldseries
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Worst case scenario, as I told my kid today, we get to watch our local @MLB team, predicted to finish last in their division, play one more baseball game tonight — on Oct. 27. Millions of fans of this beautiful game only wish they could say that. #RaysUp #Rays #WorldSeries
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Best case scenario, an improbable — but not impossible — comeback starts now.
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Brett Phillips is loosening up in the Rays bullpen. #raysup #WorldSeries2026 #worldseries
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Pretty much everyone who predicted the Rays to finish last in their division are predicting them to lose the #WorldSeries #Raysup I like it.
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Complain all you want about Walls’ hitting. But it’s time to shut up now and forever. The dude is a magician on defense. #raysup
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I don’t care if he never gets another hit in his life. #raysup
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Informal research at the Trop: based strictly on what fans are wearing so far this crowd is 99% Rays fans. #Raysup #ALCS26 #ALCS
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I hand counted 13 tickets available for tonight’s Game 6 on the @MLB ticket site as of 30 seconds ago. #RaysUp
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And Yankees fans have the audacity to whine about C rings. #Raysup
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Yankees Twitter already losing their minds. #Raysup
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You’d think @MLB would have their best umpires calling balls and strikes at this stage, but seeing all these calls overturned — and by a lot — makes me think otherwise. #mlb
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No one has mentioned this yet that I’ve seen but note how #Raysup SS @dt_walls reacts before and after Wells approaches second base. Pure brilliance decoying the runner. And both throws were insane. Walls catches it just a few steps from second base and delivers a pea to third.
Luis Rojas was holding up Austin Wells the entire time. A terrible decision Wells will have to live with forever
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I’m bookmarking this tweet forever …
One of the worst baserunning mistake you’ll see this year
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I’ll say this: it’s a heckuva lot easier to get out of the Trop parking lot when there’s just 10,000 fans.. #Raysup
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We’ll see about that. … #RaysUp
Cam Schlittler on Tropicana Field: “I wouldn't say there's really too much of a (home) crowd here. I expect there to be a lot of Yankees fans. In some ways, you are, to an extent, kind of playing at home. I feel like the guys are excited to have that atmosphere here.”
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Regular season Rays fans are like Labrador puppies. Postseason fans are like rabid wolves. Not sure Yankees fans grasp what Drew Rasmussen means calling the Trop the loudest place he’s ever seen. But that’s it in a nutshell. The Trop will be wild tonight. #Raysup
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Yankees players are already dismissing the Rays crowd based on the regular season when Yankee fans are split 50-50 here. But an hour before first pitch I’m counting 90% Rays fans based on what people are wearing. Unless all the Yankee fans are stuck on the 275. #Raysup
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We have made a great many improvements to our news app. @tb_times apps.apple.com/us/app/tampa-…
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After a hurricane wiped out our longtime @tb_times newsroom in St. Pete, we’re in our new home at @poynter on #electionday and it very much smells like pepperoni.
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