Dave Doyle
@davedoyle
Sports card writer. Recovering combat sports reporter. Fort Worth by way of Boston and LA. 🏳️🌈
Checking in from Downtown LA, that place right-wing media tells you is a war zone, where today’s big scary thing is (checks notes) people shopping at a farmers market
This thing must have been beyond its sell-by date by the time it was published.
Still blown away by Anika Nilles’ performance the other night. Total badass.
Here’s Anika Nilles crushing it on *that* part of Tom Sawyer last night in Fort Worth.
RIP “The Duke of Dorchester” Pete Doherty. Absolute legend of my childhood in Boston.
David Wells’ listed weight is so wildly off that I wonder if I should trust anything else on Baseball Reference
I’m not sure why exactly “post a pic from 2019“ is trending, but right around this time in ‘19 I was in the middle of AIDS Lifecycle from SF to LA, and also had not shaved since I started training five months earlier.
Thrilled to finally grab a copy of my friend @patrickwyman.bsky.social ’s new book!
Mike Beltran still having the braids feels like some things are still right in this world.
I ran a 5K in Dallas today and told this guy I’m gay and asked him what exactly makes taxes gay and he stammered and hemmed and hawed as I passed him. He’s finally done with the race a half-hour after me.
Went hiking out to a waterfall in the Mojave Desert near Tecopa, Calif. yesterday!
Hiking in the Mojave Desert today and can I just say that this big ol’ bear loves little desert wildflowers?
Anniversary of the best live wrestling show I ever attended in my childhood! Jim Crockett Promotions’ Boston Garden debut.
I’ve been meaning to tell you as a fellow appreciator of critters that you might like this book I recently read about how rare species of fish and amphibians survive in the Mojave Desert.
They're also dunking on this over on The Bad Site. Rare is a take so putrid it can unite Bluesky and Twitter.
West Coast travel pro tip: Not only is the train the best way to get from Downtown San Diego to DTLA, but the views from SD up to about San Clemente are some of Amtrak’s best.
I want one of these to flash next time someone does a bad job trying to bullshit me.
Had a pretty awesome afternoon hiking at Anza-Borrego State Park about two hours east of San Diego, where the desert wildflowers have already begun to bloom.
Thanks to Google search AI I know now that Chipper Jones became a "Met Killer" by hitting a grand slam against Montreal.