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'I'm gonna vomit': Reliving the wild 2022 baseball season through my text messages

'I'm gonna vomit': Reliving the wild 2022 baseball season through my text messages

It started with a lockout. How did it end up like this?

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Brendan Dentino
Feb 26, 2023
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On December 1, 2021, a few hours before Major League Baseball owners took the ball and went home, I reached for my phone to message the only person I knew who would understand. “Scherzer was spotted a couple weeks ago visiting GOP Senate offices,” I said to my dad. “I wonder if he’s doing an inside job.”

It was my first text of the 2022 baseball season. …

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