Jersey Shore snow day

Wow weird I guess the Mets' offseason wasn't over on Dec. 10 after all. Funny how that works.

It's good for my marriage that I agree with this almost entirely, but I just keep coming back to a point I've been making since last winter: Watching Pete Alonso whiff on 95 mph fastballs in a Mets uniform in 2028 was going to be way more depressing than letting him leave now.

felt like I haven’t had my best writing fastball for a minute. It’s back. On Pete Alonso for @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Up next in the American medical system's attempts to scare me away: I just called the office of a doctor I'm supposed to start seeing in two weeks to confirm my appointment and was informed that actually that office shut down permanently last month. They just...didn't tell me.

The deranged Mets fan conspiracy theories almost have me jealous of whatever fantasyland they live in if they weren't so damn miserable about the stories they've invented.

Everyone remembers that the Mets won 83 games last season, right? And missed the playoffs? That's the team you want to run back?

"David Stearns made an active decision not to make what he viewed as an overbid on a player" is really, really, really not the same as "the Mets lost." I know everyone loves to play LOLMets but we have to stop pretending.

I think if you call a professional athlete a traitor for signing a contract, your MLB.TV subscription should be automatically canceled.

If the Mets had wanted to re-sign Edwin Díaz, they would have.

My doctor's office has not answered the phone or their internal messaging system in a week and if you told me that the goal of the American medical system was to ensure that no one actually goes to the doctor, I would not question it for a second.

ELSBETH did a Totally Not Bill Belichick/Jordon Hudson episode this week with Lana Condor and this show truly just makes me so happy.

Who is the person who actually wants hold music? Who decided that repeating six lines of elevator music is better than silence?

I have been yelling about the phrase "makeup concerns," particularly when it comes to amateur scouting, for a decade. You do not know these people. You do not know their morality system, their conscience. Who is quiet vs. who's an asshole. Who just had a shitty day. www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Jarrett got to pick our offseason show this year so we have now started a CHUCK rewatch.

My least favorite free agency storyline every winter is "X player is from Y city, he obviously must want to go play for a team that's vaguely in the general vacinity."

Send help, I'm about to get talked into like my sixth LETTERKENNY rewatch.

@daynperry.bsky.social wrote about Rob Manfred. www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/rob...

If anyone is interested in learning about Devin Williams beyond his ERA www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dev...

Wrote about the long history of baseball’s salary cap fight, which dates back to the 1800s: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...

I've been making my way through HOUSE OF GUINNESS and greatly enjoying it but you simply can't say "Cloonboo" as often as they do and expect me to take you seriously.

I have never been ashamed of what I don't know. In fact, I'd rather admit I don't know something than try to wing it. There's a lot I don't know! That's fine and I will never pretend otherwise. But there's just something about the people who try to make everyone else feel stupid.

Praying for some discount Jesus Christ to come save you from yourself All Time Low | Hammerstein Ballroom

Man I did not think anyone was going to take Brandon Nimmo's contract.

I've gotten even more neurotic about comma usage and placement than usual lately and I'm sure that is not at all reflective of my precarious mental state.

I have a lot of problems with the vapid capital-J Journalism Discourse online but the actual biggest problem is that most people participating are insistent on pretending that the only journalists are the handful of famous ones they "read" via screenshots on social media.

An extremely important discovery deep in the Getty archives.

It's been a while since a new show ended up on my Top 10 draft as quickly as TASK did. Tom Pelphrey was great but just keep rolling out Mark Ruffalo with a new ensemble and this show works forever. deadline.com/2025/11/task...

There are few feelings as wonderful as being vindicated for a long-standing hatred of a stranger without particularly great reasons.

John Wells AND Debora Cahn having political dramas on the air is how I know the TV gods still love me. deadline.com/2025/11/netf...

There are few feelings as wonderful as being vindicated for a long-standing hatred of a stranger without particularly great reasons.

I realize I am becoming part of the problem but oh my god you people have to shut up about a stranger on the internet who got put in time out for 72 hours. The world carried on.

You know what word I hate? Tradable. There should be that extra E in there.

Mental health check: I've had the new Hilary Duff song stuff in my head for like three days.

I had to do the math this morning on how long ago I graduated while talking to a college student and reader, I did not enjoy the results.

There is absolutely no reason for a Bowling for Soup cover of Taylor Swift's Charli xcx cokehead song to exist and yet I have never been so happy. youtu.be/yiRccXX5RHs?...

You shouldn't be allowed to bet on the speed of a pitch anyway.

My greatest accomplishment of the year is finding a way to wear one of my Eras Tour outfits again.

Here's my ranking of this year's top 50 MLB free agents: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ran...

Okay the Bad Blood bumper music was very funny.

This World Series has been stupid in many very specific ways.

Milling about with all your buddies and puffing your chests is way more pathetic than just moving on with the game.

I thought the odds of the Blue Jays re-signing Bichette were pretty high anyway, but there's no way they let him walk now.

Have greatly enjoyed The World Series, brought to you by SCHITT'S CREEK (tm).

I appreciate this (obviously) non-Ticketmaster website that makes a big deal when you sign in about the measures it takes to block bots from buying tickets, but it kind of kills the mood when the website doesn't actually load for me or the bots.

I don't care what the rules are, "nope sorry can't get that ball" is a spring training move.

I have mostly given up on pretending we still live in a polite society, but the kids really don't bother saying Trick or Treat anymore?

Blake Butera is the first MLB manager younger than me, which is a milestone I could have done without this morning.

Every time I see Andy Garcia, I am morally obligated to share the clip of him and Cher singing Fernando to each other in MAMMA MIA 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9r...