In a shameless attempt to get @enosarris.bsky.social to come to Denver for a Rates & Barrels live meet up, I visited the Clyfford Still Museum today.

Man, Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest is definitely shorter than I remember it as a kid. I just passed five hours and I'm about to enter the homestretch

I'll always share this story when I see that ramen. Teaching online during COVID lockdown, I ate a package of that ramen right before my calc class. I told everyone I'd be coughing a lot but it wasn't COVID, and after I displayed the wrapper, about 4 boys unmuted themselves to say, "Mr. Bryz, no!"

OK, Bedtime Part Deux for Bonzo

"Why do I wake up with a stomach ache?" - Me, a very stupid man, after eating spicy ramen at 1 AM

Our @juleshghn.bsky.social looks at what the Astros need to do this offseason, highlighting the need to get pitching depth and avoiding taxing the bullpen. Take a look. orangefire.substack.com/p/what-the-a...

This is an amazing Reddit post and I'm sad we didn't get to run this at FanGraphs. www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Ha... Not a QB but did make the NFL

Continuing the Patrick Mahomes theme of getting quarterbacks whose dads are random 90s baseball players you might have forgotten about, the Chiefs have signed Shane Buechele. Now I'm trying to figure out if Mike Harkey or Todd Frohwirth have QB kids.

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com depth chart for the next team to go in ZiPS, the Boston Red Sox.

One of my cats was stealing my roommate's english muffins off the counter and bringing them upstairs and before I was able to identify what he was eating I kept yelling "WHAT DO YOU HAVE??" as if he would answer me

I think you’re inverting cause and effect here. People who have this ability are more inclined to get crazy back tattoos, because they can show them off so easily.

And then, of course, there's Majima, who would be hilarious in Super Smash Bros.

Another thing I really appreciate about the Yakuza games: apparently, if you have a crazy yakuza back tattoo, you also gain the ability to rip off your suit jacket, your button down shirt, and your undershirt wtih one casual movement of your arm.

One of the things I appreciate about the Yakuza game is that while it lets you use so many crazy things as a weapon, like beating the crap out of someone with an entire couch swung like a baseball bat, it STILL makes sure you know that punching is still the most powerful weapon.

Don’t even get me started on my retro backlog…

I'm STILL not 100% sure who Jake Paul is and what it is he does

I've had cats for nearly 30 years, and I still apparently have this idea that telling a cat "hey, that doesn't belong to you" is actually going to work at some point.

My favorite obscure unintentionally awkward nomenclature is that in the Trails game series, there's a historical figure of extreme technological importance named C. Epstein and at different points in the series, characters have to look at Epstein's files which is a tad...weird now.

As I note in my piece for the Diamondbacks, I tried to make a Blaze Alexander cocktail (Fireball instead of brandy) and it was pretty bad.

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com depth chart for the next team to go in ZiPS, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Chat time! blogs.fangraphs.com/dan-szymbors...

Awful and his polenta art, now both resting in peace

I still have a sliver of embedded glass in my foot from when my cat jumped into the pantry and knocked over a glass mixing bowl.

The 2026 ZiPS projections for the Seattle Mariners are now up on @fangraphs.com. blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-zips-pr...

Once, when I tripped going down the stairs holding a glass of milk, a cat came over to investigate what had happened and went straight for the horizontal glass of milk that still had a little left in it.

The worst cat cleanup was the time one of the cats pushed a fragile jar of olive oil onto the kitchen floor and I cut my foot cleaning it up, and I was trying to keep Galileo from exploring the olive oil and blood slurry that grew to cover about half the kitchen floor.

Not that anyone was following this, but one of the cats (I suspect Justinian) got the cabinet opened, knocked out a bag of pre-ground coffee, and then clawed it open on the kitchen floor even though cats have no interest in coffee.

Five minutes ago, I heard a crash upstairs from what sounded like the kitchen. A cat just appeared in my office with some coffee grounds on his fur. I'm typing all this out because I'm trying to filibuster my attempt to go up there and deal with whatever happened.

Is it socially acceptable to add everything bagel seasoning onto a plain pumpernickel bagel, if you can't find a pumpernickel everything bagel?

One cool thing about my cat is one day he'll wake up and invent a completely new annoying behavior that immediately becomes an immutable part of our daily routine

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com depth chart for the next ZiPS team, the Seattle Mariners.

I once had a dies irae from a Requiem (I think Reicha?) as my ring tone. Then I was sleeping when my phone rang. In my dream, I asked someone "What is that sound?" and they said "That's the sound you hear when you die in your sleep," and I woke up VERY quickly. Changed the ring tone.

I woke up with The Gambler in my head and I have no idea why

2026 ZiPS Projections for the Cleveland Guardians are now live on @fangraphs.com. blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-zips-pr...

Having a high of 10 degrees and a high of 60 degrees less than a week apart is really annoying.

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com depth chart for the next ZiPS team, the Cleveland Guardians.

The 2026 ZiPS projections for the Minnesota Twins are now up at @fangraphs.com. blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-zips-pr...

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com depth chart for the next team to go in ZiPS, the Minnesota Twins.

Something looks off, but I can't put my finger on it...

I’ve been helping Nate out with this and am really excited to get it finished and out in the world, come help get it done.

I know it's easy to panic about PC component prices now given everything that's happening, but the Samsung SSD news isn't really that big of a deal - It's the *SATA* SSDs and that tech has rapidly become niche for consumers.

Babe Ruth hit 405 home runs after Dick Van Dyke was born.

It's really annoying to discover a family member, who never seemed to lie or get a fact wrong, told you a very odd lie about their life, and then you can't really confront them about it since they're 115 years old and dead.

When my nephews or maybe grandnephews/nieces ask me about COVID, I hope I have a better story than "I mostly ate Panic Doritos because I was employed in a job that suddenly didn't exist."

I'm getting to the age at which I occasionally think of a player as having retired fairly recently and then look and they've been retired for 18 years.

My cat Justinian probably thinks his name is "Goddamit! What the fuck?"

Sorry, Whoville, but if you do this crap loudly on Christmas morning YOU are the assholes, not the guy quietly living on a mountain trying to get some sleep.

Change your name to Zipsorski ... the subtlety has been lost by the next generation