this is maybe the loudest baseball crowd I’ve ever heard on television.

If you don’t love the WBC, I hate you

People are in tears of joy in the stands for winning a quarterfinal game. I love this event so, so, so much, man.

Make that nearly 49 years!

We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland. Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.

I'll tell you, if a woman who cared about sports had written this, it would have been taken as evidence that she didn't understand sports.

Report: Country That Has Never Taken WBC Seriously Does Not Take WBC Seriously

Misspoke? Dude if you fuck up like this you need to own it.

Italy and Mexico tomorrow night knowing they can both advance with certain scorelines: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrac...

Pool B takes a dramatic turn

tbh, I think about that just about every day

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

the feeling I'm getting using Claude at work is that if you're a good engineer with deep knowledge of the codebase, it can make you a lot more productive. if you're a mediocre engineer with surface level knowledge of the codebase, it can also make you a lot more productive, which is BAD.

@harrypav.bsky.social i found it like immediately after I asked, ha www.thescore.com/mlb/news/263...

BP Job Postings: Milwaukee Brewers Senior Software Engineer www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

I hope the rest of the world just says fuck off to the World Cup and Olympics here.

NEW: I spoke to the journalist and researcher Pat Ellington, Jr., whose singular work expands the fullness and depth of Black history through Francisco Lindor, Ronald Acuña, and the global impact of baseball. issa very, very special BHM edition of [eyeblack]:

ICE and DHS are at ogilvie transportation center by the food court heads up

so after buying MLBtv through ESPN Unlimited ($15 discount) I wasn't seeing it reflected in any of my MLB apps. Turns out you have to link your ESPN and MLB accounts (understandably), and there are directions to do that here for anyone in a similar situation: support.mlb.com/s/article/Ho...

Actually, 2006 is the first PITCHf/x year, with a smattering of data from late in the season and playoffs.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

It’s the first time the US men’s and women’s hockey teams have won gold in the same Olympics 🥇🥇

put it in the Louvre

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Laila Edwards shot, HILARY KNIGHT DEFLECTION Play Free Bird, motherfuckers!!!!!

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Proud to say I was in attendance at one of those puking on the mound games. @statsinthewild.bsky.social still gets emotional when we reminisce about it.

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

I think one of the clearest parallels to the AI industry is that guy who said his horse could do math

YouTube, man. Here is home video footage of Roberto Clemente just weeks before his death (Nov 22, 1972). He was actually in Nicaragua managing Puerto Rico in the Amateur World Series. The footage was taken by Norbert Jaeger, a member of the German team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RerR...

we kicked off our 2026 Previews with last year's World Series participant Toronto Blue Jays! We're keeping the same format as last year, and @bradleywoodrum.bsky.social included some additional excellent charts that are worth checking out, too! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wlw... The answer is 6. Enjoy this partial explanation.

NBC with a really cool look behind the scenes with the team getting the drone shots at the Olympics

video on bsky:

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

One more afternoon bump for this piece, which will catch you up on everything you need to know in baseball this week. Also, how Aaron Civale is a bag of rubber bands. Also, if you aren't a current subscriber, I made this one basic, because I felt like it. Enjoy some transaction analysis.

As Michael notes, there's a wonderful story to tell about an American cycling legend, world champion, Tour de France winner, that includes an amazing comeback that doesn't involve blood bags and trying to ruin reputations of those who called you out. Greg LeMond is the guy we should be talking about

And because a Baseball preview should not confine itself to MLB alone, I asked @jenramose.online to give us a rundown of the Women’s Pro Baseball League as it gets ready to launch. It’s Jen. You know it’s great, but I’ll affirm for you: it’s great.

The Baltimore Banner's EIC Audrey Cooper announced in an email to staff that The Banner will expand its coverage to include D.C.-area sports teams, including the Nationals and Commanders.

The fact of the matter is it is being misapplied in high stakes area in a way that is evil by virtue of indifference, whether it was a calculated or ignorant (or both) decision to adopt. The concept of the banality of evil exists for a reason. We could argue some use came out of many bad things.

It's probably Kevin James, after him Mick Foley. PS you win a prize if you can name all the MLB players from my high school, without looking it up. The prize is me saying "oh wow did you go to my high school?"

Yes, yes, let's make arbitration an LLM hacking contest. Good idea.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

dear beat writers, please use alt text

Also, the PECOTA projections always there to offer a healthy dose of reality for the White Sox, although they do reflect improvement and a higher ceiling as well.

this is a really good one, Brad shows how the 'upside' isn't a fixed thing!

That's more than usual, but hopefully the opposing team broadcasts will fill in the gaps. It's nice that there are no blackouts on mlbtv during spring. Still, seems like a strange choice. Revenue for Marquee must be pretty low for them to be cutting like this, multiple years into their service.

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Holy shit this is the best thing I've read in a month www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...