Let’s talk about why this piece on Diego Pavia and what it means to play sports in New Mexico by the incomparable @chuckculpepper.bsky.social is so awesome. ⬇️

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl pushback from MAGA influencers is the latest chapter in a long history of Latino artists facing heat on America's most significant sports events. Think Jose Feliciano's groundbreaking interpretation of the National Anthem at the 1968 World Series www.axios.com/2025/10/04/b...

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Diego Pavia has come a long way to lift Vanderbilt to new heights. His next test comes this afternoon at Alabama.

100 years ago today, these Hall of Fame greats square off…on the mound! In an 8-inning season finale called for darkness, the aces combine for three scoreless innings. The game also resulted in Cobb’s only career save (retroactively), however sketchy. www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLA/SL...

Spooky season in Rogers Park.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

What a hed. Chicago today:

Michigan will raise Trey Burke's number to the Crisler Center rafters when the Wolverines host Ohio State. The Buckeyes did not recruit the Columbus native and watched him sweep the nation's top individual honors as he led U-M to the 2013 Final Four. 247sports.com/college/mich...

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

From @arielparrella.bsky.social: Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Add throwing tear gas from their car in the middle of the street by an elementary school to this list

Not bringing a book to wait for my detained fiance to be released by the gestapo was a rookie mistake

Alderman Fuentes spoke at the opening of Babe’s last weekend and then this today. What a week of covering ground for constituents.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

I too always take a moment to genuflect before Chicago's most powerful local deity

If you're in Chicago, the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture has a new exhibit on baseball! Called Pleibol!, it's a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian. Free to visit! nmprac.org/exhibitions/...

That red brick building is Funston Elementary. They are gassing kids in their classrooms

I can't even begin to articulate how seethingly angry I am rn

I feel like the fact I know a half-dozen women I thought “oh she needs to read this” means I’m doing something right with my life. ⚾️🧹🐈‍⬛🎵

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

A LOT of people went to jail in 1917-20 on flimsy or fabricated charges by an aggressive federal government. And many more lost their livelihoods, too. Adam’s book covers this period well.

"You come for my people, you come through me" - Gov Pritzker last November Today:

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

He was "almost perfect" once for Walpole. He was flawless tonight in New York. Cam Schlittler—a son of Massachusetts—is breaking hearts around New England tonight. #mlb #wildcard #Yankees #RedSox ⚾️

Let the kid have the 9th.

Oh my. What a play by Ryan McMahon.

This pitching matchup is a microcosm of the paradox of modern major league pitching: the pitching is all too good, there’s not enough pitching.

“The Twilight Zone” premiered on this date in 1959.

So many references to Babe Ruth's 14-inning gem in the 1916 World Series. That game was played not at Fenway Park ... but across town at the much larger Braves Field, loaned out to the Red Sox. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

What a stressful 9th inning.

Bucky Dent throwing out first pitch on the 47th anniversary of his Game 163 homer, ahem

“Is his hand off the bag for a millisecond” is not the spirit of the rule. We must get right with the baseball gods and move back to “he was in the vicinity of the bag it cool”

Dansby Swanson's defense this series has been stellar. Multiple game-impacting plays.

mr mal pugh doing the good baseball right now

Dansby Swanson is having himself a day at shortstop.

Jane Goodall didn’t just change how we see animals. She changed how we see ourselves. Amid government shutdowns and attempts at silencing, her lesson feels urgent: what we do matters.

On this date in 1977, Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker invented the high five.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I watch sports in bars a lot, and in the past two years, a new and distressing Type of Guy has emerged: under 30ish, always by himself, scowling silently at the TVs with a pack of Zyns and a Mich Ultra in front of him, not appearing to root for any team in particular

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' @blockclubchi.bsky.social's Mack Liederman & I went in the already rundown apartment. We saw severe damage — doors kicked in, water damage, blood & clothes on the floor etc blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important: -simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago -prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

First pitch for Game 3 between the Cubs and Padres is 4:08 p.m. tomorrow.

Dodgers win so tomorrow will match Oct. 11, 1981 as the only days in MLB history with 3 winner take all playoff games on same day. Those division series games: Expos 3, Phillies 0 Yankees 7, Brewers 3 Dodgers 4, Astros 0

Fun scoring quirk just happened. Officially, Alex Vesia just struck out Will Benson even though Vesia never threw a pitch to Benson.

Mookie Betts with the second three-double game in Dodgers postseason history along with Jim Gilliam in 1953 World Series Game 4 It’s the third 3-double game in a potential postseason round clincher, joining: 2004 WS G4 Trot Nixon 1925 WS G7 Max Carey