we find it necessary and we know we shall win as we are confident in the victory. Of good over evil

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

I wrote up the latest happenings with the WPBL and recapped last night's inaugural draft!

everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow

hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."

This is a remarkable clip.

Kelsie Whitmore, Ayami Sato, Mo'ne Davis, and Ashton Lansdell are among the names who went off the board in the first round. In total, players from the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., Curacao, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea were selected for the inaugural season.

I asked Grok whether Elon deserves the prestigious title of Biggest Douche in the Universe.

This is the shit right here. bsky.app/profile/the-...

#WPBL NEWS — I asked the PR director for clarity over the use of past tense, indicating that the draft has already happened ahead of the draft this evening. "Correct, the players have already been selected for teams," the WPBL PR director told me. "They are not chosen in real time tonight."

More info on how tonight's WPBL draft will operate. You can watch live on their YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram channels. Links are the top of their page. #WPBL www.womensprobaseballleague.com/draft-primer/

NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1. thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...

have this handy, where horizontal lines are the +/-1 standard deviation range for that pitch type. Surprise Factor is indexed to 100, same as Movement Spread & Velocity Spread, so anything above 100 is good and ~120 is truly elite. It does vary some by pitch type. For PtP I think ~65% is average

Some rules of thumb for the Arsenal Metrics by pitch type:

is anyone in Pilsen missing a cat? specifically this one

Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:

as a reminder, each writeup of a player in the Free Agent 50 also includes a (park neutral, rates only) PECOTA projection, which is a perk for our subscribers:

Further reminder that nominating your own work is not just allowed but encouraged. If you wrote something you’re proud of, make sure to nominate it!

Hey, SABR hasn't put both its feet into bluesky yet (I know, a lot of its people have) but this is a good time to remind you that the SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards are open for nominations. When you have a few minutes, please nominate some of your favorite baseball research from 2025.

“Hey, Spike, thanks. I’ll put this next to my poster of Pippen dunking on Ewing.”

Important educational content

There were a lot of great moments from tonight but the best by far was Miz hanging out well after the allotted time for the event was over and ripping cards with a kid wearing his jersey. They even pulled a Miz!

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You can do it here, as a gift:

buy a baseball fan a subscription to @baseballprospectus.com why don't ya

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

the third image in this is powerful

Post you from a different era (late 90s??)

DePodesta is, undeniably, a trailblazer directly responsible for the modern executive. He has a whale of a challenge in front of him—modernizing that Rockies organization; solving Coors Field; and so on. Tall task for anyone, let alone somebody nearly a decade removed from an MLB front office.

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

Want to present your baseball research at the SABR Analytics Conference in Phoenix? There's just 2 weeks left to submit a presentation abstract for the 2026 conference; the deadline is November 21. Here's all the details: sabr.org/analytics/pr...

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

New Arsenal Metrics content! Hell yeah! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

In that piece, I used the newly fleshed-out arsenal metrics at @baseballprospectus.com to show why #Cubs clearly feel Brad Keller's great year was more repeatable than Kittredge's. Also dug into those to explain the Imanaga Saga, at BP itself today. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Hazel’s expanded her zone a bit, having been seen yesterday afternoon at Century and Aviation. Once again asking this be shared with folks in L.A., especially in Westchester, Inglewood and surrounding neighborhoods. Shareable Instagram post: www.instagram.com/reel/DQpBhSu...

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

I cannot

This would increase voter turnout and voter satisfaction

sandwich shifted wake effects actually made this more dangerous -- @themagnuspi.bsky.social is launching sandwiches in his lab right now to establish the increased lethality

The whole piece is great and y'all should read it: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

the #WPBL draft will be held on Nov. 20 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, according to their instagram.

Yes that’s right, the $5.25 billion in the contingency fund is insufficient. If you take CBO’s projection of FY2026 total SNAP costs and divide by 12, you get $8.9 billion. Ofc, admin can legally transfer money into SNAP contingency fund, like they did with WIC, but there’s a limit.

anyway, enough about that ...

Or it is an Azerty keyboard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY