good bit from @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social's latest. You can read the full piece here: www.joesheehan.com/2025/11/joe-...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

Is there a double play scorigami databse?

in MLB dot com write ups of Roberto Clemente Award nominees, Liam Hendriks' work with LGBTQ+ organizations was referenced in 2022, 2023, and 2024. there is no mention of it in this year's write up. www.mlb.com/news/roberto... (previous years can be found changing "2025" in the url slug)

i just looked up the win probability graph from last night's bills-ravens game. granted you don't want to put too much stock into probability models, but it really does put buffalo's comeback into a new perspective

Baseball

Live look at me using Concur to book work travel

Once again calling for the MLBPA to designate this day as Curt Flood Day. And a shout-out to all unions, including my local CUPE. Workers unite.

In today's newsletter: everyone is talking about realignment and expansion because Rob Manfred wanted them to. He wanted them to to aid in the owners' anti-labor strategy. Don't take the bait. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Of course I summoned several hundred balloons for @fangraphs.com 20th bday... then I popped some and my jaw dropped. What a delight!

there is nothing more beautiful to me than anders thomas jensen's commitment to making mads mikkelsen look a little weird

Dick Allen was an elite hitter who clashed with a world that was often far too slow to embrace him as either a player or a person. We’re more than ready to celebrate both now, says @jayjaffe.bsky.social.

Rich Hill and Edwin Jackson are tied for the MLB record, each having played for 14 different franchises. Between the two of them, they've appeared on the field for 22 out of a possible 30 MLB franchises.

From the Notgraphs era, a golden time of my life looking back, “La Danse Avec Cinq Raúl Ibañezs,” with an apology to Henri Matisse, of course.

Bryce Harper, on how Dodgers spend money and acquire talent, including their pipeline to Japanese stars: “I don’t know if people will like this, but I feel like only losers complain about what they’re doing. I think they’re a great team. They’re a great organization.”

Elly De La Cruz

Pedro Martínez

Fernando Tatís Jr.

the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up

I learned a lot writing this about feeding 200-plus people at spring training, and wow have times changed! In such a good way: How Giants have blended players’ palates and foods from home cities and countries with nutritional needs www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant... via @sfchronicle

I would love to hear the thoughts of a 5-foot-1 woman named Jackie right now

Blogged about pumping at the ballpark and whether sexism is more like a feeling or more like a brick wall. open.substack.com/pub/somehard...

If Naylor is the Dean Portman to Eugenio Suárez's Fulton Reed, and Corbin Carroll gets a little bit of the Kenny Wu fighting the Iceland guy who's twice his size...

it's the Lena Blackburne rubbing mud article I've been waiting for 😍 "we perform a multiscale investigation of the rheology and tribology of this mud material under baseball-relevant conditions and identify three mechanisms by which the mud alters the surface properties of the baseball"

how much would someone have to pay you to drive a cybertruck for an entire year? i think $50,000 is fair. spend a year revolting your friends and family, then buy the car of your dreams and explain to everyone that you were going through a bad time in your life. i bet most people would accept that

i'm sorry, just too many of us pay attention to these dudes' butts for them to tell us nothing is different about these pants!

polygamy is really tough for a lot of us to understand, much less accept. how would you react if, for example, you found out your uncle was entering a group marriage? you might be confused, and perhaps even resentful. just try to remember that it’s a complicated issue that requires some new aunts

i’m thinking about messing with jack reacher. getting wise with him, interfering with his investigation, threatening his friends, that sort of thing

Rich guy discovers that workers aren’t motivated by making rich people richer.

why is there no baby gromit merch in the world

Spruce Bringsteen

First concert: Weird Al Yankovic Last concert: Weird Al Yankovic Best concert: Weird Al Yankovic Worst concert: - Loudest concert: Weird Al Yankovic Seen the most: Weird Al Yankovic Most surprising: Weird Al Yankovic Next: Weird Al Yankovic