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Patrick Dubuque

  • joined Feb 17, 2011
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Former Bill Spaceman Lee Visiting Professor for Baseball Exploration at Pitchers & Poets, and current comedy joke writer at NotGraphs. Mariners fan since the days of Spike Owen. My favorite baseball moment was watching Rickey Henderson get his 3,000th hit as a tiny red dot on ESPN GameCast.

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  • mlb Seattle Mariners
  • nfl Seattle Seahawks
  • ncaaf Washington Huskies
  • ncaab Washington Huskies
  • boxing Manute Bol
  • general Seattle Pilots, Seattle Metropolitans
  • nhl Washington Capitals
  • general Aurora Ajummas
Recent Activity
Montero technically earned 0.014
Commented on 5/19: Chart of Antipathy on May 19 2013, 4:46p - 1 reply
If anyone is somehow still around
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 4:11p
5/19: Chart of Antipathy
Posted on May 19 2013, 4:10p
True fact:
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:59p
If only I'd done a series of time lapse pictures.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:16p - 2 replies
It was basically a giant concrete tomb.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:15p - 1 reply
Hey, thanks.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:14p
There was the one time
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:11p - 2 replies
It seems like it's happening more lately
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:08p
One of these days I'm going to devote a thread
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:07p
Mine has reached the point
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 3:07p - 1 reply
That feels like a 2004 M's metaphor.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:58p
I'm rooting for 7-4
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:48p - 1 reply
That's actually not a bad idea.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:42p - 1 reply
Nah. I'm just grumpy about having to write a recap about this garbage.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:39p - 4 replies
Among this house's many foibles
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:36p - 1 reply
Think of it as allegory.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:34p
Tearing down an herb garden
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:30p - 3 replies
If this is my last thread/recap
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:24p - 2 replies
Maybe I just knew something you didn't.
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:23p - 1 reply
This game coincided well
Commented on 5/19: Felix Day Game Thread on May 19 2013, 2:22p - 1 reply
5/19: Felix Day Game Thread
Posted on May 19 2013, 11:44a
I know this is dangerous thinking
Commented on 20-23: We Continue to Wait on May 18 2013, 10:57p
He clogs bases!
Commented on 20-23: We Continue to Wait on May 18 2013, 10:53p - 3 replies
I know, Logan. We'll just agree to disagree.
Commented on 20-23: We Continue to Wait on May 18 2013, 10:49p - 1 reply
20-23: We Continue to Wait
Posted on May 18 2013, 6:40p
Game Chart is up
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 4:32p
5/18: Chart of Sadness
Posted on May 18 2013, 4:32p
Well, at least we felt something.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 4:04p - 1 reply
Let's talk about bullpen management a little bit.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:57p - 1 reply
Guess I'll make a real WE chart after all.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:48p
We are all witnesses.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:36p
It's fun to find out how slow my feed is.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:24p
Last line's already there.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:20p
Tempted to auction off the rights
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:12p - 3 replies
Maybe this is a stupid question
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 3:02p - 1 reply
Joe Saunders is more of an adjective
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 2:57p
Thanks for confirming the narrative, Reynolds.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 2:36p
I guess we're not the only ones
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 2:34p
He's basically a 43 year-old Rickey Henderson
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 2:30p
This keeps up
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 2:23p
I'm sure Rob Johnson is available.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:59p
McAllister McAllistering.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:57p
Montero caught stealing: 1
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:52p
Brendan Ryan is almost 1/11th of the way
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:51p
Endy Chavez's B-R page sponsorship
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:44p
I've reached the point where I get confused
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:26p - 1 reply
So, we almost had Josh Hamilton.
Commented on 5/18: Open Game Thread on May 18 2013, 1:00p - 2 replies
5/18: Open Game Thread
Posted on May 18 2013, 11:44a
My voice sounds so much better in my head.
Commented on OT--May 9th, Merry Month of May ed. on May 16 2013, 11:05p - 1 reply
Let's be diplomatic and say
Commented on Some Histograms Eric Wedge Might Not Like on May 15 2013, 5:02p
Some Histograms Eric Wedge Might Not Like
Posted on May 15 2013, 11:57a
I lump them together as one show.
Commented on OT--May 9th, Merry Month of May ed. on May 13 2013, 2:18p
Hitting himself with the ball outside the batter's box.
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 6:49p - 1 reply
Beware the catchers
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 4:38p
If we're lucky
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 4:31p - 1 reply
I like this Tommy Milone way better.
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 4:29p - 1 reply
Pretty certain it was.
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 4:25p - 1 reply
Still can't believe Milone has 41 strikeouts
Commented on 5/12: Open Game Thread on May 12 2013, 4:17p
5/12: Open Game Thread
Posted on May 12 2013, 3:22p
I enjoyed Spaced
Commented on OT--May 9th, Merry Month of May ed. on May 10 2013, 5:50p - 1 reply
I wouldn't have as much of an issue with Swisher money
Commented on OT--May 9th, Merry Month of May ed. on May 10 2013, 5:17p - 2 replies
My favorite British comedy of all time
Commented on OT--May 9th, Merry Month of May ed. on May 10 2013, 5:12p - 1 reply
Not On This Day, Twenty-Seven Years Ago
Posted on May 9 2013, 12:00p
This is true.
Commented on 5/8: Open Game Thread on May 8 2013, 2:34p - 1 reply
He's going to run into the Kevin Brown problem
Commented on 5/8: Open Game Thread on May 8 2013, 2:27p - 1 reply
Poor Andy Hawkins.
Commented on 5/8: Open Game Thread on May 8 2013, 1:53p
for No
Voted on May 7 2013, 5:59p
I think that's where you cross into the general protests
Commented on A Treatise on Booing on May 7 2013, 11:47a
But at the graduate level, you can blame them!
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 6 2013, 10:50p - 2 replies
It's always awkward when the teacher requires it
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 6 2013, 10:46p - 1 reply
I was right there with you.
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 6 2013, 10:41p
As a fellow introvert
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 6 2013, 10:39p - 2 replies
I think at some point, there's a certain amount of irony in booing.
Commented on A Treatise on Booing on May 6 2013, 5:01p
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller actually discussed this
Commented on A Treatise on Booing on May 6 2013, 4:56p - 2 replies
A Treatise on Booing
Posted on May 6 2013, 12:00p
Most of my favorite movies are actually plays.
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 4 2013, 8:07p - 1 reply
I'd go higher than Holman with Chris Warren
Commented on OFF/ON-TOPIC: Mariners & Other Things on May 4 2013, 7:53p - 1 reply
That was my way of fixing the line breaks.
Commented on We up at does on May 3 2013, 11:15a - 1 reply
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