Very excited to open this baby up in the next few days: ⚾️ πŸƒ

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️.

Orioles #194: a single and my first triple (!!!). I love that this game allows me to use my knowledge of the current team while learning about the previous generation.

“Zone Control”
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πŸ†Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #170 took me a few more tries but I got there just in time πŸ’ͺ

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lol Liverpool ✌️ #ChampionsLeague

This VaultX album for my Topps trading cards is awesome, if somehow much larger than I had anticipated πŸ˜…

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A Fantasy Baseball update

A Fantasy Baseball update:
My draft was on Sunday, mid-afternoon, so I had to draft using the Yahoo Mobile App, while being out and about, hanging out with friends.

Here’s what I got β€” wish me luck!

Batters:

  1. Salvador Perez
  2. Luis Arraez
  3. Maikel Garcia
  4. Max Muncy
  5. CJ Abrams
  6. Jackson Merrill
  7. Michael Harris II
  8. Nolan Jones
  9. Shohei Ohtani (Batter)
  10. Vinnie Pasquantino
  11. Matt Chapman
  12. Yandy DΓ­az
  13. Carlos Correa
  14. Connor Norby
  15. Evan Carter

Pitchers:

  1. Logan Gilbert
  2. Aaron Nola
  3. Jeff Hoffman
  4. Matt Strahm
  5. Reynaldo LΓ³pez
  6. Merrill Kelly
  7. Max Scherzer
  8. Clayton Kershaw

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️ 3-day streak: LFG πŸ§‘πŸ–€.

Orioles #193

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Connections: Sports Edition | Puzzle #169
Getting better at this β€” there’s always a category that is much harder than the others, but after connecting a few dots and tip-toeing, the picture gets clearer.

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πŸ“Ί Onside: Major League Soccer ⚽️

Recently finished Onside: Major League Soccer, the documentary series on ο£ΏTV+ about the past MLS season.

It was a nice and refreshing view compared to team-specific documentaries I’ve seen in the football (⚽️) world, and I really enjoyed the variety of discovering different teams, personalities, and players!

For someone like me, based in Europe, it was super useful to learn more about this league and its personalities. I wish more teams were covered, but I’m assuming that this would be the case if the show was to get renewed for another few seasons… MLS has definitely had the perception of being the “soon-to-be in the Top 5 of football leagues in the world” for 15 years now and we’re still waiting to see it happen, but at least the marketing has been good and the level of play has increased significantly. Though there’s still a lot of work to be done at youth level for the sport to become as mainstream and universal as it is in the rest of the world.

Next up on my watchlist:

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Finally a Connections: Sports Edition puzzle I could solve β€” and perfected it in one go!

Puzzle #168
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Nice little Daily Walkoff today ⚾️ Orioles #192

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Orioles #191

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Fun day out today: friends, bike rides, and long walks in our former neighborhood 🌞 πŸ§‘β€πŸ§‘β€πŸ§’

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Orioles #189

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Gonna be partaking in #FantasyBaseball for the first time this year (outside of Sorare)… anything I need to know? Any strategy or tips? ⚾️ 🧑 πŸ–€

Delightful weather, sun, and light these past couple of days so we were able to to set up the balcony.

I was even able to hang out there for a little break from work and read thru my acquisition of Obvious State’s reprint of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven πŸ“š

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Found some of my old journals β€” in notebooks I never truly completed, dating from the time (2017-2018) when I started dating my now wife, a time when I traveled around the world by myself for 9 months. Will be going through some “archiving and digitizing” of these across Day One and the built-in camera’s text scanning feature.

Very excited to revisit some of the most exciting time(s) of my life and our story!

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Quick Duolingo update

Ending the stretch of 4 games in 7 days with a third loss sadly 😒 m.acmomento.com/mo/o6LU8o… @acmomento