Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

He's coming back

It's Bluesky. We can say Happy HondaDays here.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Señora Partridge… y la perdí.

Guess the 49ers used all their sandbags on Colin Kaepernick.

There’s a very rich and heart-felt thread here, from almost exactly one year ago. That’s how long I’ve been asking and trying to knock this out. Can you help or share? It’d mean the world to me

He did promise to make America grate again.

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

Bregman will need to replace the tequila in his salsa with malort.

Logging onto this app full of Twitter refugees every day to see what they have to say about Twitter posts.

If you put in the local area code and 867-5309 at checkout, there is not a grocery store in America where you will not get member savings.

Joshua Tree National Park after the rains.

Uniquely L.A. experience to get stuck behind the city of South Pasadena Rose parade float.

It won't, of course, but this should absolutely be the end of that other website. I don't know why anyone halfway decent still willingly chooses to spend their time around those people.

My mother taught me to drive by going to the Wright State University parking lot and driving straight into the middle of a snowbank, and then I had to get us out of it. At my very worst, as a fifteen-year-old, I was better than this.

I did fairly well with this. I could do better. I'm on the fence about how much time I anticipate spending on BlueSky in general in 2026, but I intend to post photos regularly while I am, starting with this. [Reposting because I forgot alt text.]

Obsolescence isn't the last peak on the hike to mortality, but its view of the trail is often the clearest.

The way I know without looking that this guy has a degree in business administration.

Los Angeles has largest IU alumni association chapter in the world and Alabamans are afraid of immigrants.

leave it to the most despicable team in the history of organized sports to sign someone literally named "i'm ai"

R.I.P. MetroCard

If you start watching Game 5 of the 2024 World Series at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.

Emmanuel Clase cannot compete with A Man Who Will Chase

old Zack Greinke stuff

Last photo of 2026 is a self-portrait. This was a year of tremendous struggle and of tremendous growth. Next year I'm just going to take the extended warranty and see if that changes anything.

I don't think some of you were bullied enough this year.

I missed the announcement that World Series champion Max Stassi is the Angels' new catching coach.

In a week and a half, it will have been a year since Matt lost his home in the Altadena wildfire. Can I get ten people to give $76 each to help him rebuild and get back to work? Sharing is the next-best thing to donating.

In The 12 Days of Christmas, the singer receives a partridge in a pear tree 12 times, not 1. It is mentioned on all 12 days. As a result, the most copious gifts are 6 geese-a-laying and 7 swans-a-swimming (42 each), after which returns diminish. Thus, the optimal days are, yes that's right: 6–7.

Caught a pretty bitchin' sunrise this morning in Venice.

Whittingham only follows five women on Instagram and he's related to all of them. This is a W.

This guy right here thinks we didn't notice that he sank them in the contest and then encouraged them to get together so he could secure a house band. Forget it, Eephus. It's Waterville.

UCLA plays their home baseball games at Jackie Robinson Stadium, which sits on part of the ten acres they've leased from the VA. They open their season at home against UCSD on Feb 13. A.D. Martin Jarmond has said he is "confident" that UCLA will play its 2026 season at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

stinks

Alex Bregman to the Seattle Mariners is going to be the funniest fucking thing.

The Astros have such a strong tradition of second basemen. Jeff Kent, Craig Biggio, Joe Morgan, Jose Altuve, and probably the best of the bunch, Kaz Matsui.

Dusk at the Happiest Place on Earth.

I really did not appreciate Hanukkah enough as a kid because right now, as a 48-year-old man, few ideas are as thrilling as receiving eight days' worth of free socks.

This has reminded me that Ryan Weiss has the best Baseball Reference 'pronunciation' in the game.

Spent the weekend working on my backlog of photos to edit. Taking things in a new direction in 2026.

Am I just doomed to deleting ten to twelve 3-second voicemails every day for the rest of my life, then?

who is lewis hamilton and how can i be lewis hamilton

$1190 to go!! Can you help or share?

I'm raising funds for Movember. Can you help get me to $2k? movember.com/m/14670988?m...

Just seeing the news about the Dubón and I guess my big question is how the hell did Nick Allen get four hundred plate appearances last year?

In a departure from writing about the Big West, I used the Grayson Rodriguez trade to look at the winner's curse, and how it affects MLB draft rooms. bigwestdugout.com/2025/11/19/d...

This is something I've been thinking about for a little while now, and the Grayson Rodriguez trade seemed like a good reason to blog about it. Not Big West-related: How the winner's curse affects MLB Draft rooms. bigwestdugout.com/2025/11/19/d...

One week left! We've added another org, another state, and another few dozen dollars. Will you be the first from your state? Seven days until Louisa and I compete to answer 66 trivia questions and—hopefully—raise lots of money for food banks across the States! nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...

I love November Baseball because it's got perfectly reasonable people calling Taylor Ward an 'impact bat.'