The great ones get the excuses in early.

Jesus, part of the big Easter promotional effort

Old episodes of This Week in Baseball have become my comfort viewing, so I wrote a story for @awfulannouncing.bsky.social on why that is, especially with a new version of the show arriving today: awfulannouncing.com/mlb/this-wee...

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My most abiding Old Man opinion is that I regard those photos of ridiculously over-topped hot dogs from Major League Baseball parks with the same creeping dread I feel when witnessing the Weimar Republic-era decadence depicted in "Cabaret."

Only one free newsletter has the courage to say the Mendocino Coast is mighty pretty. Best support this brave truth-teller by subscribing. get-your-phil-newsletter-ccdfef.beehiiv.com/p/get-your-p...

Congratulations to Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic, on his call-up to the bigs. (Also pictured, Sue Storm)

I had a computer baseball game that let you assemble your own teams from real players, and I created a league of East Bay-based baseball teams and played out entire regular seasons, entirely by myself. For five seasons. With two rounds of expansion after seasons 1 and 4.

In case you missed it yesterday, we coerced my old boss @philipmichaels.bsky.social to resurrect the Pundit Showdown—after more than a decade!—for our 650th episode of Clockwise! Come listen to him put the question to me, @snell.zone , and @mikahsargent.com.

I will not read this story and will instead choose to believe that it involves John Kirk saying, “Hey, wanna see a neat trick?” And 20 seconds later the cameras cut away but the screams reverberate. “We apologize,“ an ashen Yom McCarthy says later. “The human body is a freakish nightmare.”

He lived through slavery and did nothing. Good riddance.

Everyone else seems to be sharing their thoughts about Apple’s 50th anniversary, why not me? chrisbreen.com/words/2026/4...

For those of you biding your time for the return of the Pundit Showdown, today's your lucky day.

He's looking forward to spending his retirement patiently explaining, "No, that's the other one."

I've opted to mark Apple's 50th anniversary by writing about any fool thought that spilled out of my head. But @snell.zone opted to publish it. Who's the greater fool — the fool or the fool that follows him? sixcolors.com/post/2026/04...

When your new favorite baseball team loses three games on the bounce:

What kind of man turns his mid-week getaway into content for his free newsletter? THIS KIND OF MAN get-your-phil-newsletter-ccdfef.beehiiv.com/p/get-your-p...

<extreme Travis Bickle voice> Someday a real rain is going to come and wash all the pollen aw... <starts wheezing uncontrollably>

By the time the 2030 World Cup gets underway, Italy will be in a 24-year drought since playing a match in the knockout stage. The last time they did was the 2006 final against France.

The nice thing about having Jesus over for dinner is you don't have to fret about the wine.

Once, when covering CES, I was rushing to get to the Venetian for a demo but also in dire need of food, so I grabbed some sliders from that particular White Castle and wolfed them down. I should have just poured battery acid down my throat.

This is the Disney adults’ Zapruder film.

Live look-in at @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social celebrating his birthday:

I would pay 50 US dollars to hear Donald Trump speak for an hour about Jesus and what he considers the key lessons from Christ's teachings, with a picture-in-picture inset of the pope reacting to what was being said.

Congratulations to the New York Yankees for clinching their playoff berth on March 29. (MUST CREDIT THE ATHLETIC)

Why? What happened?

Love to transcribe interviews, and get to hear all my assorted speech impediments over and over again, really fluffs up the ol' self image.

Me blocking someone

Kim Mulkey visiting the Leland Stanford mansion: Needs more spangles

Derek Jeter putting out for MGM’s sports book proves that every terrible thing I’ve said about him is completely justified.

the IOC trans ban’s main effect will be to show you who among your friends and family really enjoys punching down

I dunno, Oreo, sounds dangerous.

In 2009, my wife and I spent Thanksgiving at her brother's just north of Ft. Myers, Fla. We were driving back to the airport in Miami — anything to guarantee a direct flight — when my mother called us in a blind panic.

Live your life as jauntily as Point Arena Lighthouse keeper Bill Owens looks in this photo.

The only thing worse than Clayton Kershaw’s politics is his mic work.

“Finally, a prize shit enough for me.”

Should we all reintroduce our baseball allegiances for a quick refresher? No explanation. 1. The Tigers now apparently 2. Chaos, the all-powerful life force that controls us all entirely on its whims 3. Nothing, for the happiness of others is like a dagger in my heart 4. Dusty Baker

Today was the greatest victory in all my time as a Tigers fan.

The Lighthouse (2019), Dir. Robert Eggers

It’s Opening Day, and that means it’s time to reveal the team I will be rooting for this year, with an eye toward maybe making them my new permanent team…

Oh, so you’re a fan of the now-famous Ireland, eh? Well, name three stories of ancient lore meant to bewitch a traveler.

Finally, the efforts of all those Cursive Now rallies i attended are starting to pay off.

Tony Vitello’s gonna threaten to strip the Giants of their scholarships at this rate.

MANFRED: I don’t even care if they cancel baseball. VASGERSIAN: Oh man, that’s wild.

I have an orange cat that looks a lot like this, and it would not surprise me if he called a press conference to denounce me for taking a road trip.

Eating a pile of fried food at the moth of a river on a sunny-yet-breezy day — there are worse agendas.

“Let’s dig tunnels in the city famous for its above-ground tombs.” “Masterful gambit, sir.”

I was present at the Sony CES event where this car was the surprise announcement — in fact, I was the lone person there from my publication, if memory serves. And that was the dawn of this truism: If Phil is writing about cars it’s either under duress or because no one else is available.