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As a former media columnist who covered the tabloid wars, watching a predatory hedge fund continually gut the Daily News is heart-wrenching. Everyone there cared deeply about this city and their paper—the people’s paper. My heart goes out to them. New York is lesser for this.

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

@brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social, thanks for your comments about book writing on the pod today. For my first one, I was sooo obsessed with hitting the daily word count. For this one, that number has dropped, but the prose is so much cleaner…

Following me of the darkest days in Cincinnati sports history, @theathletic.com gives us 8 minutes with our beloved Votto. Or Moppo. Thank you! www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...

Taylor Sheridan was the cornerstone of Paramount’s streaming future. Then came the the new bosses. My profile on his rise to television power player for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Eric Young Sr. Sits Down To Talk Managers and Managing blogs.fangraphs.com/eric-young-s...

This is the letter that #Bengals owner Mike Brown wrote me in 1992. I had asked his counsel on whether to forgo architecture school and pursue a course that would lead to become an NFL GM. It’s real, heartfelt and practical. In other words, Mike Brown. Happy Birthday!

1915, the day they changed their name to the Cleveland Indians. There’s nothing honorific about this.

The truth is the White Male Novelist was preeminent for more than a century *because* he represented the unfettered human, our Zeus, and Zeus's problems (whether internal or external) represented the human condition, our kernel crisis, so hells yeah, White Man write! That was always bullshit.

Mel Allen on Dave Parker in 1985: “Number 39 is Mighty Fine!” An understatement for the ages…

The world is lesser without Dave Parker. They’ll talk about a lot of on-field things when he goes into the Hall. But we owe him a debt for what he did for a generation of Black players. My 2024 piece for @espn.com’s Andscape: andscape.com/features/dav... :

The Latino Alumni of Northwestern University have rallied behind the family, sharing a fundraising campaign to help fund a legal challenge to the parents’ deportations.

This is Eric Davis doing something awesome for the #Reds in 1988. Because that’s what Eric Davis is: Awesome. youtu.be/_DkdFUNFo_g?...

Because of @jeffpearlman.bsky.social’s PressBox Chronicles on the 1984 #Padres, YouTube fed me this tonight. Glorious. Just F—in glorious. youtu.be/fuJZ3gYrRVA?...

I love Chicago State—its faculty. Its students. What’s happening here is truly, truly terrible.

The world is terrible. But Reuters bringing on badass Michael “Nuke” Learmonth is not! What an amazing get for an amazing organization!

Trump welcomes 49 white Afrikaners today as “refugees” from South Africa… The racism is a feature, not a bug.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

A brush with immortality. The Hall of Fame Yearbook, featuring cover art by James Fiorentino, is now available online and at the Museum. ow.ly/rAaR50VEFxc Receive a free copy with your Museum Membership: baseballhall.org/join

"At Michigan, students have been told the casualties include orientation events for new Latino, Arab and Asian American students, along with the LEAD Scholars program, a financial aid award for Black, Latino and Native American students." These things harm no one. He just wants nonwhite suffering.

Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here. www.kqed.org/news/1203596...

The best thing to ever happen to Pablo… Leaving ESPN He’s good at this!

Major League Baseball and the Dodgers will be lavishing praise on Jackie Robinson today. Spare me. These same folks have had nothing to say as the Trump administration tries to erase Robinson and everything he fought for. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

On this Jackie Robinson Day, my piece from @andscape on his last fight. In the midst of personal tragedy, he stood what was right. My hero. An American Hero. He cannot be erased. #jackierobinson #mlb #gop #dodgers #blackhistory andscape.com/features/jac...

On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

For people who want to bring back cursive…spend your Sunday reading a bunch of these. #booklife #mlb #yankees #redsox #baberuth

The podcast conversation we all need right now….

Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely wapo.st/4hkbEB6

Many of us have seen previews of Yuriko Romer's outstanding "Diamond Diplomacy" film project on US-Japan baseball ties. Her previously approved grant funding is now in limbo because of Trump's awful and cruel cuts to NEH.

AMERICAN KINGS, a varied and thorough look at what it means to be a quarterback, will be out 9/9. Waterfield, Elway, Unitas, Caleb Williams, Moon, Manning (and Manning, Manning and Manning), Steve Young, Colin Hurley, Shack Harris, Vanita Krouch, and more! www.amazon.com/American-Kin...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

The Worrell card was in my very first 87 pack! It was the first pack I remember buying in the summer that I found baseball. 87 was my year. Eric Davis’ year. I love these cards and these packs. Thanks for posting!

Share if you think Opening Day should be a holiday.

All kinds of awesome…

@immaculategrid.com any word on the glitch?

@profloumoore.bsky.social. This is your fault…(coming in the mail)

@kenli729.bsky.social, the man who gave us “The Fast and the Furious” franchise on his Subaru Outback: “It’s Dope!”

My baseball. My year. My man. God bless Eric the Red.

No one has ever explained to me why the #reds which hosted the first two Civil Rights Games—which they should bring back—and is so active with its Urban Urban Academy, doesn’t wear Cincinnati Tigers Negro League uniforms once a year.

Jackie Robinson stealing home in the eighth inning of Game One of the 1955 World Series

Think the Yankees beard move was big? Let’s go back to 1999 when Greg Vaughn dragged the Reds into the modern age. From @msheldon.bsky.social: www.mlb.com/amp/news/gre...

A 30-for-30 short I missed. But the story of Glenn Burke and The High Five is just, well, it’s great. And we need things that are great. vimeo.com/183033618

Thank you to @alysonfooter.bsky.social for encouraging me to resurrect an old blog post I wrote about my connection to my dad’s career in the music business, & giving it a wider audience. www.mlb.com/news/robert-...