cardboardgods.net/category/tea... If you want to get a sense of what Wilbur Wood meant to a kid in the 70s, don’t miss this blog post.

RIP Wilbur Wood, 84, a Chicago White Sox workhorse in the 1970s and arguably the best left-handed knuckleballer in major league history. Read his SABR bio: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

Thinking it over, I would like him to die peacefully, in his sleep, on camera, during a press conference.

The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Highly niche post from a Weir-grieving #Celtics fan: the Dead and their counterparts in green . . . (thread)

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

Starting today and lasting until New Year's Day, Barnes & Noble is offering a 25% discount on preorders of "Moses and the Doctor." Offer includes the audiobook and ebook. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moses-and-...

Rewatched the end of "The Stivics Go West" today (free on Tubi). Meathead made me cry when I saw the episode as a 10-year-old, and he did it again today. RIP to a mensch.

Just finished reading Dream by @mirinfader.bsky.social. I thought I was going to be reading an enjoyable sports book, and I was right, but it was also a deeply inspiring story about transformation and how to live a good, meaningful life.

Will buy and read this one immediately, as it hits 3 of my immediate-read principles: 1. I'll read anything by [insert author] (formed in this case upon reading the brilliant Our Team); 2. I'll read anything about the basketball of my youth; 3. Andrew Toney assayed within

Another new episode, another cause for celebration. Nothing is helping me understand the world I live in and love and loathe more than Hickey's deep, beautifully digressive, revelatory exploration of rock.

I'm a reviser, with words, with memories, with reality. In my mind since the game I didn't want to end ended, Alejandro Kirk drops down a stunning, game-tying bunt. It could have worked! I've seen it work! Muggsy Allenson did it! Continue ridiculous game!

from my Kerouacian "scribbled secret notebook . . . for yr own joy," some words on game 7 and Muggsy Allenson: cardboardgods.net/2025/11/02/g...

from my Kerouacian "scribbled secret notebook . . . for yr own joy," some words on game 7 and Muggsy Allenson: cardboardgods.net/2025/11/02/g...

I wasn't rooting for anything last night except for exactly what I got, unforgettable baseball, and it broke my heart anyway. The joy of that slide into home by Clement . . .

This feels weird to say as a Red Sox fan, but I'm bummed I didn't get to see Mattingly celebrate

this game has had everything and is just 2 hours away from going back in time

Holy shit

geddy lee claps for the blue jays in 7/4 time

The three nepo babies coming up big so far for the Jays

Some of my favorite writers have passed away in fairly recent years--Denis Johnson, Andre Dubus, Bruce Jay Friedman come to mind--but I don't actively miss them because I've got their books. But Roger Angell, man. Him I miss bad every year around now.

Bichette with the Kirk Gibson solution to running while hurt

Spaceman could hit. (Can hit--he's probably still playing the field when not pitching for a Vermont town team.)

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.

The fifth issue of my newsletter, This, Not That, just shipped. It covers The Bad News Bears, some seemingly personal ghost stories from Kipling and M. R. James, and Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington's album Blue Rose. Read & subscribe at the link below: this-not-that.ghost.io/issue-5-octo...

Thanks, Levi!

And not for nothing

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

Chewbacca always knows the right thing to say #Chicago #NoKings

Took my son to @freelancewrestling.bsky.social last night. The first thing he said afterward: "That was the most awesome thing I've ever done."

BREAKING TRAINING is a bad movie, but the defense of it by @joshwilker.bsky.social is a work of art.

Trump thinks he can silence critics. Here’s the counterattack that will ram his threats right back down his throat. Trump wants silence. The winning move? Noise he can’t muzzle.🔥🔥🔥 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

🩵!!! COVER REVEAL !!! 🩵 Check out the cover for my forthcoming book, HEARTLAND, about the rise of Larry Bird in rural Indiana, the miracle of his 1979 Indiana State team, and the enduring power and meaning of that team some 50 years later. Coming 3/3/26 from @atriabooks.bsky.social!

Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.

Happy Yaz’s birthday to everyone especially @joshwilker.bsky.social

Great new episode on the MC5 by @andrewhickey.500songs.com Very insightful, as always, and cumulatively laugh-out-loud funny the way handles keeping the episode clean. Kick out the jams [Mark Fidrych]

The great Bill Lee holding court after a screening of the excellent recent baseball flick Eephus. Got to say hello afterward, but even better was when Bill's longhaired grandson chased down my son and me as we were leaving to introduce himself and tell my longhaired son to "keep growing the hair"

Would be really helpful if some MAGA folks have finally entered their "Are we the baddies?" era but I'm not holding my breath

My preorderdered copy showed up this morning, and I can't wait to dive in, knowing that Kate's book is going to help me keep going and growing as a writer.

Sighting of the great book Our Team by @lukeepplin.bsky.social at the Evanston library

"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009. In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇

Today's amazing Immaculate Grid gave me a chance to pay tribute to that classic and hilarious work, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book

My happy place

Five writers who made me: Jack Kerouac J.D. Salinger Denis Johnson Frederick Exley Bruce Jay Friedman Many others and all the time, but those guys got in early and lit my way

Looks like AI companies stole my (and many others') work. Search authors here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...