We could have that Knicks-level civic unity for baseball too, if you dead-enders would just give up on the "Mets" already.

Totally fascinating life and career for Bumpus Jones. sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

I’m old enough to have seen a few different very good Knicks teams but they *never* won painlessly or easily. This last month has felt delirious.

I tried Silksong again because I love making myself furious. This is why I play games: to get so angry I can't see straight.

Subscribe to Defector dot com: Never artificial, and only occasionally intelligent. defector.com/the-written-...

It's not possible to overstate how important Sean has been to Defector, and how he's made each of us better. Hopefully we've made him worse. defector.com/numbers-guy-...

This is all so undignified

Wow, I did not see this coming, but the votes have been counted and it's officially Opeth's "Deliverance."

This is a great blog. defector.com/nathaniel-bu...

I’m more sympathetic to late Metallica than most but I think enough time has passed to say ‘Hardwired’ is a really good album, full stop.

Insane to see the Knicks not playing with their food. Very unknicksy.

Ted Turner-adjacent memory: I was baited into going to the Goodwill Games on a 90-degree day to see a mediocre WCW mini-house show.

I was obviously hoping for the Rangers but the Leafs winning is a very funny lottery outcome.

The sweetest cat in the world turns 15 years old today. She's started to show her age, but at least she's finally grown into those ears.

It’s fine to compose directly in the CMS. It won’t eat your draft unless you’re impure of heart.

John Sterling died this morning. Reupping this from his retirement: defector.com/john-sterlin...

Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen. defector.com/vindicated-a...

Back in the day if you wanted to know even the most basic piece of information about a movie, like who was in it or what it was about, you needed this mf's 900-page book.

Ironclad rule of business: A successful company needs multiple smart people in it. We’re hiring a second one.

If you had told me nothing about the origins of this playlist I still would have triangulated it to Bergen County.

Everybody's talking about the 1998 film 'Fallen'

Listening to Portishead and it really paints a picture of how depressing it must be to live in Portishead

Good reminder that Dan Simmons’s ‘The Terror’ (or at least the first three-fourths of it) is so so good.

Finding possible evidence of life elsewhere in the universe has turned out way more confusing and boring than movies made me think it'd be. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BIG BLOGS

Hugo spritz is really having a moment

NHL fans love complaining when there are actually good first-round matchups

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:

A few years ago, I was attacked by a dog. It changed a lot about me, including the book I was writing. I tried to describe it all here:

Give him the chair, that’s what I say. Now what’s this about an indictment?

Goddamnit we had a whole set of meetings and PowerPoint decks to tell Roth never to say we are “extruding” blogs.

Today should be a national holiday.

I would like to announce that I am also blockading the Strait of Hormuz

Finally learned today, after literal years of hearing my coworkers talk about her, that Helen DeWitt did NOT write a book that got turned into the Tom Cruise movie.

Cat checking her bowl as if she might've somehow missed wet food being served. Motherfucker, not once in your life have you slept through a can opening.

Really good Albert blog

You just gotta serpentine

I just wish Angine de Poitrine were like 30 percent less ... Quebecois about the whole thing

Lmao this is such a funny lie. "Uhhhhhhh the cops are investigating him for bad reporter-ing." www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Love the Evil Building.

Can’t believe I just got to watch an earthset live. What a cool species we are.

If you're new to the Moon fandom, you should read Seveneves. It has one of the wildest first lines in a book. www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04...

It's always kind of freaked me out how the Moon appears "upside down" to viewers in the Southern Hemisphere. Like I get it but I don't Get It.

This really got me.

cc @jloeppky.com

At the very least, listen to the embedded audio of Apollo 10 astronauts giggling about the zero-g turd that escaped its waste bag and was floating around the cabin. defector.com/artemis-bold...

watched Boat again this morning, almost cried, became randomly angry as shit, and now feel cleansed and energized. god bless you, Boat. defector.com/the-sports-h...

Boldly going where no toilet has gone before

Still watching the Artemis coverage and just heard, “Houston, toilet is powered.”