Judge is batting .500 in the playoffs with a 1.381 OPS but people are STILL saying he's "choking". Being superhuman doesn't help when the rest of your team are basically the 1962 Mets with an inner ear disorder.

I am so horrible at reading hits off the bat in person. Sitting there with my scorebook at the stadium: "WOW, he really got ahold of tha-" (scribbles F-6 in his book)

Y'all can hate on this EA deal all you want, us old-school haters are still pissed about how they did Origin dirty.

Lunchtime Escape The Everpresent Horror thoughts: Would Coco Crisp batting against Rocky Cherry be the tastiest-sounding at bat in MLB history? I gotta think it's up there somewhere.

I haven't seen the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man go at each other like this since Annie.

There is nothing more midwestern than hearing the opening chords of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and coming to straight-backed attention.

Love this color. Birmingham Pen Company Ohio River.

I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.

Finished building a PC for my boys last night, and it's officially a project after the requisite blood sacrifice.

Why would anyone even want an incandescent bulb anymore?

Some Saturday nib pr0n. Platinum President 18k Medium.

Update from the front lines - got Whammed at the dentist yesterday. This breaks a decade-long streak of surviving.

Of all the things I did not expect to add to my list of weekly grievances, metal fatigue was pretty high on the list.

WHY IS THE CON-40 SO SMALL GRAAAAHHHHH

Not gonna lie, pretty happy with my lettering on this last one.

Ok, FB ad feed - I don't know what you think I'm up to, but... no. Just no.

Holiday hack: replace your cranberry sauce with IKEA lingonberry sauce. Think about it.

Heard that Anderson Pens is going out of business and that makes me very sad. Great place to find repair parts and some pretty unique odds and ends.

I am, in fact, Puts His Readers On To Play On His Switch years old.

@davidjroth.bsky.social in 2010 some friends and I were at Yankee Stadium and saw a guy in the stands in a Doug Waechter KC Royals jersey and I have to tell you, we spent a LOT of time trying to decide if it was actually Doug Waechter or not. What an odd choice.

DBacks/Rangers is like beige sand and desert ecru fighting it out for the right to be on a suburban living room wall

Been practicing my handwriting and I'm pretty happy with where it's going. Pen is a Sailor 1911L medium-fine. Ink is De Atramentis Atlantic Blue. Paper is a Franklin-Christoph Greypad.

Just picked up a Franklin-Christoph Model 20 Marietta with their SIG Fine nib, and I gotta tell you, this is the nicest-writing pen I've ever had. Just a gorgeous piece of work. #fountainpens

Anyway I just swapped out my monitors for a single 34" super wide and there is no going back anymore.

Setting: Abby's bat mitzvah party Nathan runs up to me. Nathan: I AM EXTREMELY TIRED Me: I bet, it's late. Nathan: AND I AM EXTREMELY HYPER Me: I can tell! Nathan: THIS IS A TERRIBLE COMBINATION

Some people have a fidget spinner or a worry stone. I've got a Lamy 2000.