Dan Merker

@danmerker.bsky.social

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Humble genius. World traveler. K-State Wildcat. Arsenal supporter in @kcgooners.bsky.social. Baseball nerd - Go Royals! Music & nostalgia romantic. Be kind. Go Birds.

Teams I’ve seen: American & ACC

An orange tabby cat looks up curiously at a partially eaten creamsicle

Japanese fans in the stands of Netherlands v. Japan at the World Cup dressed up as Mario, Luigi, and Toad. No sign of Princess Peach or Yoshi.

Wide shot of a sunny Target Field from the 3rd base stands, for Royals @ Twins on June 6, 2026. Skyscrapers linger over the stadium in the upper left of the shot, while sparse clouds are overhead across the whole image.

Screenshot for “Free season of mlb.tv” with a magenta background from the T-Mobile T-Life app

My personalized Muppet, which, other than having blue skin and eye black on, looks oddly like me — with the orange hair and all — wearing a purple toddler-sized Collin Klein #7 K-State jersey from his playing days.

My orange tabby cat, Otto, casually lays across my shoulders as I’m leaned forward on the couch with a resigned smirk on my face toward the camera.

I celebrate the Eagles winning Super Bowl LIX on Broad St. after the game. I’m in the middle. My friend Brian (left) is wearing a beard, a huge smile, and celebration goggles on his forehead, while Cohen is on the right in an Eagles beanie, glasses, and a defiant, victorious look on his face, holding a single digit in the air to signify being #1. In the background, several people are stood atop trash trucks while the city revels in victory.

An orange cat named Otto lies across my shoulders while I sit. He sniffs me while I have a bemused look on my face.

Screenshot of a MS Teams chat reading “Respectfully, everyone wants everything as soon as possible. That doesn’t make it a deadline.”

In the 2002 K-State vs. KU football game in Lawrence, a dejected Jayhawk football player sits in the foreground of the scoreboard reading K-State 64, Kansas 0. There is 12:26 left in the 4th quarter. Out of frame in a very happy purple corner of the stadium, a much younger and wetter me is having a grand time laughing at their ineptitude and the scale of such a destruction.