“Bobby Shantz Day” in Ambler: Happy 100th Birthday to our favorite Philadelphia A! So glad @amblerrick.bsky.social and I could join your family to celebrate your 100th!

“With him pitching, you hardly need a third baseman” My latest for SABR remembers the 119th and final career win for Bobby Shantz, who celebrates his 100th birthday today. 🎂💯 sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

New @ SABR: Not only did Robinson Canó become the 22nd player confirmed to reach 4,000 professional hits, days later we confirmed #23. Vinicio García played his last game 55 years ago and died in 2007, but we finally found hit #4000 for the 1954 Oriole. Here’s the story. sabr.org/research/art...

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

I think Vought and Carr are really the same guy…

@johnfredland.bsky.social hmmm bsky.app/profile/100y...

- The #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the week ending September 3, 2005, when Mike Gundy coached his first game at OSU was Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together.” - That same day I saw Notre Dame beat Pitt, in Dave Wannstedt’s first game at his alma mater. Wannstedt’s last game at Pitt was … 2010.

Harry Styles completes the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds. He reportedly registered under the name Sted Sarandos.

Basically everyone with more than 5 minutes in the military was calling this for what it was when Wilsbach went on his shaving waiver jihad in ACC last year

LAW AND ORDER

folks surfaced a lot of past brendan carr tweets that seem to contradict his current agenda but i feel like this one got unfairly slept on a bit

The latest 500 Songs Backer-Only bonus episode is now up! The Who! Elvis! The Beatles! Shakin' Stevens! The Teletubbies! Mary Whitehouse! The Greater Manchester Police Obscene Publications Squad! It's the "career" of P.J. Proby

Since Rice Football is playing this evening, please suggest more rice related things for us to update our RICE Scale appropriately.

Were there actually people who thought Republicans and right wing pundits were sincere in their constant whining about free speech? Who didn’t understand it was all a manipulative sham? If so, they’re now getting a painful lesson in right wing dishonesty.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Betty Pfugel of Big Rocks, Wisconsin, isn't going to see this as justified censorship of hate speech. She's going to be yelling at her TV provider about why Jimmy Kimmel isn't on.

The most effective thing that I, a nobody, can do to advance my political goals is to get arrested on camera for clearly-legal behavior. I don't want to get beat up by the cops, but sympathetic-looking people getting beat up by the cops is how authoritarian regimes end.

If your freedom requires everyone around you to like and agree with you, to never even give you a dirty look, much less threaten you, you don't want freedom at all, you want impunity and subservience from others. It's a bad thing to want. You should want to be free.

#OTD 50 years ago, Rennie Stennett goes 7 for 7 in a 22-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Five NFL teams chose not to honor Charlie Kirk. @modestholdings.com chose to defy the governor’s order that his county fly flags at half staff for Kirk. The fact that people are able to stick their necks out to do the right thing puts into sharper contrast just how many are not willing to do so.

All four of these teams won today btw

this is our country. a bunch of people who are furious it's not their country, who managed to win one of three elections they've attempted, and who are desperately envious of the fact that we, their enemies, are the people who make society work, are desperately trying to make it look otherwise.

once the dweeby white dudes they found out he's a dweeby white guy, they decided he was effectively blameless for his decisions and instead the villain are nebulous corrupting "forces" who made him do what he did. so incredibly transparent

This is what happens when you put the wrong podcasters in charge. @griersonleitch.bsky.social would have apprehended the murderer by now. Same with @andrewhickey.500songs.com, @cmolanphy.bsky.social, and @karinalongworth.bsky.social.

The Drizz would have caught the guy by now, just saying.

Now, of course, the question to anyone with half a brain should be, if the Trump administration can’t even keep key parts of their own apparatus safe, how are they supposed to keep you safe?

It’s easier to understand what’s going haywire with our government if you start from the premise “everyone with even a modest degree of fame cares more for their social media presence than their professional and moral obligations.”

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

Reaction online is predictably polarized. Reaction among the not-always-online people I tried to talk to was a unanimous, “who?” I’m still working through that.

Kinda wild that this happened in Utah of all places. Kinda causes havoc with the probably wanted talking point of "we need to go into these democrat states and return order!!"

maybe they do try to do A Politics over this, but in addition to everything else, anyone short of the President being shot is just another day in the US for most of the electorate

If you truly feel someone is cherry picking evidence, the solution is to release it all

all this Nazi posting on main is because they have a massive morale problem and they only have one reference for state propaganda

Alternative history SF novel where Y2K is as bad as people feared, Silicon Valley tech corporations never recover, and we reach utopia.

Often, I wish libertarians actually existed. And occasionally, for fleeting moments, they do.

Honestly I couldn't care less about the name of the American military industrial complex. But it more stands out that they're hitting the bottom of the barrell of things to do in the do something presidency.

“We feel he’s a player of the future”: My new one for SABR remembers Ryne Sandberg, Lee Elia, and a wild Cubs-Pirates game from 1982. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Trying to see if I can get more readers for my new SABR Games Project jawn🚨 than the original game got paying fans. It shouldn't be difficult. OTD in 1951, 2️⃣ is the magic number:

ANDREW HICKEY GETS THE LED OUT!!!

maga has put american companies in a weird bind where even a company that badly needs to update or reassess its image is unable to do so without significant social media backlash from people who never purchased their product to begin with. not a huge capitalism fan but this seems bad for everyone.

It was great to listen to this while I was running this morning, and the “Dazed and Confused” part one episode should be a welcome companion on the commute to work this week.

The Breeders

Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability

i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.

SABR’s latest Origins Committee newsletter has been published, including my story on George Van Alst’s no-hitter in 1868. The recently discovered game is now the earliest confirmed no-hitter on record. Even more incredible, Van Alst never pitched for the Eckford club again; it’s a wild story!

I think there's a first derivative to Orange Man Bad which is that the fruit of his rotten tree will never serve good ends. You can't try and twist his actions to favor the just because they're corrupt all the way down and any attempt only leaves you with current credibility and the stink of failure