Listening to Thinking Fast and Slow on audiobook while moving my yard, just as I'm sure the author intended

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Ted Turner started with some billboards, and turned them into a redefined television landscape, a revived bison population, a bunch of angry rich dudes, and literally Jane Fonda. At the center of it all? "America's Team," the Atlanta Braves.

I was playing gin with my son before school and he told me he wanted to spend 50 gold pieces to pick a specific card out of the deck and I was like holy shit he just reinvented Balatro from first principles

Carlos Correa is broken. The Houston Astros are broken. Things just break eventually.

Since it’s going to be a plot point on the next episode of Five & Dive, and because podcasting is an audial medium, here, sans context, are the contents of a package of Skwinkles

Carlos Correa is broken. The Houston Astros are broken. Things just break eventually.

Going to bump this one more time for the evening crowd, because I don’t write like this often and because I was pretty happy with it. Come for complaints about the modern media landscape, stay for the inference that an episode of Murder, She Wrote is more of a game than Battletoads

In a year when the strike zone has shrunk, no less. Which leads to the question: How small would the strike zone need to be for the Giants to take bases on balls like a normal team

Martín Pérez should be required to turn around and watch home runs hit off him, or get fined. No one else, just him

We need to know the details about Matthew Boyd's injury. Specifically: what shitty board game was he playing with his kids when he hurt himself. Was it Doodle Dice, or Pizza Party. Or was it one of those nightmare games of Mastermind where the kid wants to do the code but keeps giving wrong answers

All players should be untouchable. C'mon. That's gross

When a pitcher breaks a hitter's bat, they should get to keep it. And then at the end of the year, if they clinch a playoff spot, they should get to pile all the wood on the mound and have a big bonfire

The only version of the Odyssey I want to see is one about an actor being late to the set on the first day of shooting, and then he keeps getting lost and wandering into other movies on his way there

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Today I broke out the old newsletter and wrote about 1000xRESIST, an excellent video game about protest, adolescence, sacrifice, and living with a group of clones in an underground bunker to avoid a race of giant, disease-bearing aliens. It's also about how we need to stop needing games to be fun.

leading @matrueblood.bsky.social to ask, why not the White Sox? Who also have some breakouts on the pitching side:

it's an unofficial White Sox day at @baseballprospectus.com, with @bradleywoodrum.com writing up the young(ish) core that's backing up Murakami's power production: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The league as a whole hits 10 points better in wOBA when they have a runner on first and less than two outs than they do with the bases empty Caminero's wOBA differential is six points lower in those situations, which feels both too high and too low

Today I broke out the old newsletter and wrote about 1000xRESIST, an excellent video game about protest, adolescence, sacrifice, and living with a group of clones in an underground bunker to avoid a race of giant, disease-bearing aliens. It's also about how we need to stop needing games to be fun.

In honor of Ted Turner, let's all go out and get suspended by Major League Baseball today

Today’s BSB I wrote about Framber deciding to quit and the only exciting “I’m going home” moment of my retail career.

(noticing a typo missed by a copy editor in an article I've read somewhere) eh, it's one o'clock in the morning somewhere

New episode of Five & Dive is up for your listening enjoyment. @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com, @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social and I chatted about the Rays, Orioles, AL Central, and I didn't have enough time to explain all the ways the movie Green Book kind of sucked.

After a hot start and a recent slump, Chandler Simpson is exactly where he was last year. Except for one key difference that has transformed him into a very good player -- and it's one you often can't even see.

After a hot start and a recent slump, Chandler Simpson is exactly where he was last year. Except for one key difference that has transformed him into a very good player -- and it's one you often can't even see.

Reading Death Comes for the Archbishop. Not sure if I ever remember being so grateful for the title of a book

apathetic guidance counselor:

Therapy, but instead it’s just someone to tell all the jokes that are too dark to inflict on your friends

I know everyone's done this by now but I tried to nod a few that I haven't seen on many lists MST3K Yes, (Prime) Minister Fleabag Police Squad Taskmaster Freaks and Geeks Get a Life Archer Futurama Monty Python Mr Show Northern Exposure Late Night w/ David Letterman Review The 2001 Seattle Mariners

prayers up for patrick

As a society we're overcorrecting from the once ubiquitous mound visit count

Today at @baseballprospectus.com I continued my project to restock my current supply of Guys, looking at pitchers who probably aren't good, but would be fun to watch become good:

Today at @baseballprospectus.com I continued my project to restock my current supply of Guys, looking at pitchers who probably aren't good, but would be fun to watch become good:

Kids these days don't realize that back in the 80s we didn't call it baseball, we called it

Pulled from my running list of anime-themed baseball articles

I wrote about Roki Sasaki's new splitter, how it fits into his arsenal, how it's both fun and rare to get to see this level of adaptation/development happening in the majors, and why he still is a long way off from living up to the hype. Huge thanks to @srbrown70.bsky.social for his help on this one

We're at that point in the season where the numbers still aren't real, but you can start kind of hoping they might be real. I went and looked at some hitters you can have fun squinting your eyes at, especially if you love some post-hype prospects.

The only pitcher with more than four innings who has yet to give up a batted ball in the triple digits is Mason Miller. Look buddy sometimes fun facts are also obvious ones, you can't cherry pick all the time

We're at that point in the season where the numbers still aren't real, but you can start kind of hoping they might be real. I went and looked at some hitters you can have fun squinting your eyes at, especially if you love some post-hype prospects.

if pitchers want to challenge they should rub their belly to signal to the catcher to pat his head

Remember: If you catch a foul ball, sign it, then give it to a kid

Anyway, why settle, as if $100 million for homering off Skenes and $50,000 for nothing are the only two options. See if they’ll pay you $750,000 to make him laugh at a bawdy limerick. Or $2 million to beat him at Warcraft 2

Every time I see one of these I always think of the 15-minute time-killing lesson I carried in my back pocket when I was a substitute teacher. $50,000 x 2,000 = $100 million, but $100 million isn't worth 2,000 times as much as $50,000. Take that cash, pay off your loans, get a fresh start on life

Today at @baseballprospectus.com: Mason Miller has allowed no runs and only five baserunners while striking out over 60% of the batters he's faced so far. He's allowed a .185 OPS has a negative FIP. If he keeps it up, can he contend for the Cy Young Award?

Sure the Braves feel good now but just wait until the Marlins unlock currency on the tech tree

EDITOR: you get the cover for the Little League rule book? PHOTOGRAPHER: Sure did, boss, real— EDITOR: You’re fired

reading the quotes on this: oh so suddenly developer's intent doesn't matter anymore. I see

Wrote up the Giolito and Walker transactions, both of which move baseball closer to its natural state.

This should be one of the least controversial things I’ve ever written and will probably be one of the most controversial: live scouting is dead. @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...