Would a version of a "meetcute" in which the meeting only happens over the internet be called a "beyondmeetcute?"

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

I'm starting to think Josh Johnson's not coming back.

Geraldo Perdomo's 2025 is comically underrated.

Been waiting to do THIS for a while.

This is about the splinker, the splitter, Bruce Sutter, a fastball that's actually a changeup, a changeup that's actually a fastball, Jhoan Duran, and what one man can do for 5.4 million people's undiagnosed anxiety disorders

My favorite game trope by far is the one where games that how ancient crypts teeming with skeletons or demons always seem to have barrels or chests in which you can find fresh produce or meat. Every Elder Scrolls dungeon gives you several months' supply of tomatoes and lettuce.

'm like 95% sure that the Braves can't go 12 and -2 and get back to .500, but I do appreciate Chris Sale's valiant effort.

I was really amused during the early part of M's winning streak right after losing 15 of 21, there were simultaneously two distinct groups mad at FanGraphs for massively overrating and horribly underrating the Mariners.

tfw you fall asleep in the middle of the headbutt.

Lawyers: Would this be considered a true threat?

The dark truth about being a writer: one of the things you root for is headline wordplay opportunities. I was so excited when the Mets didn't get a sixth hit when eliminating Peralta/Brewers last year so I could use Five Hits at Freddy's.

AI is such trash, I asked for Paul DePodesta's win percentage as gm from the Dodgers and got this

While trying to find one of my old injury pieces, I found that the TRUE story of the ZiPS acronym had been uncovered by AI. And now, the dark secret is out.

One of the Tweet/Skeet genres I like the least: The "friendly warning" from someone you have never interacted with when they don't like something you said or did but want to be really passive-aggressive about that. I block for that *way* quicker than nasty insults at me.

When you look at ROS W% in FanGraphs projected standings, remember that's *with* the strength of schedule to the rigth included already, which isn't a huge deal most of the time, but when there are only a few series left, it can have a huge impact on ROS W%.

It is! We're also the best-fed staff at the winter meetings!

I have jury duty the week of October 5th (so during the playoffs), so there's a very real possibility that I'm going to be Jack Warden in 12 Angry Men.

And to think for a few weeks it looked like we weren't going to have any truly exciting playoff races.

The Mets were a Nick Castellanos home run before that was ever a thing.

You've never seen true fear in a person's eyes until you sing them the "I Hanker for a Hunka Cheese" song without realizing that they have no idea what that is.

I know that Arlington isn't actually Dallas, but I do love yelling PATRICK CORBIN DALLAS in Christ Tucker/Ruby Rhod voice.

Even John Lennon didn't dare and try to Imagine a world where the people understood basic probability.

The weird shows are the ones that got to the 100 mark, and yet never seemed to appear in syndication. I'd literally never heard of this show until I saw a casting photo for it in an antique store like five years ago. It ran six seasons!

The 80s were amazing for how many shows got like a hundred episodes for no reason. Out of This World had got 96 episodes, Small Wonder 96 episodes, and Down to Earth got 106 episodes.

Also Woops! but that's mainly to try to trick people into watching Woops! rather than it being good.

Profit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_...

*Runs outside and rolls around in the yard* Two days later, covered in poison ivy: WHAT THE FUCK DAN

To be *really* frank, if when a team with a 10% chance of making the playoffs making the playoffs does, you're angrier about a projection saying only 10% than you are excited about the baseball awesomeness, maybe *you're* the one who needs to touch grass and watch a game sometime.

It's always bizarre to me that people deal with the slight overdescription of defense behind a pitcher in bWAR and slight underdescription of BABIP ability in fWAR by deciding to go with the easily worst WAR of the three, RA9-WAR, which basically says "defense, what's that, bruh?"

And *I* think this is an opportune time to not read social media for the rest of the day. See y'all tomorrow or Friday or maybe Monday.

On @fangraphs.com I wrote about the Connelly Early debut. blogs.fangraphs.com/tuesday-ende...

I know I shouldn't get annoyed at this point, but it *still* drives me nuts that people just say stuff like this without *any* evidence it's true. (And it's not. Being heavily reliant on homers is one of the very few things that is connected even slightly with *overperforming* in the playoffs)

Concur with Dan (whose arrival at @fangraphs.com I preceded by just a few months). Come work with us!

In case you missed it, FanGraphs is hiring a full-time prospect writer. blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-is... I've now been there for more than seven years and have yet to have even an unpleasant work-related moment. Love working there.

courtesy of @dszymborski.fangraphs.com, this piece now includes the ZiPS-based odds of a baker's dozen 30-30 candidates.

ICYMI, I talked a bit about this year's MLB opt out clauses. blogs.fangraphs.com/looking-ahea...

Given how nice September weather frequently is, it seems like a waste to not have at least one day game every day.

FanGraphs Employees, Ranked by the Likelihood that They Would Unleash A Deadly Pathogen on the Population:

Told you backronyming Zoonotic Illness Production System was a bad idea!

In case you missed it, FanGraphs is hiring a full-time prospect writer. blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-is... I've now been there for more than seven years and have yet to have even an unpleasant work-related moment. Love working there.

17 players stole 30 bases in 2024. Juan Soto has more stolen bases than 13 of 17 of them this year.

Chase Headley as terrific in his prime, but poor guy, I think probably 98% of MLB the Show DD Players are going to take the other two options first.

Happy Labor Day, White Sox fans. NEW @soxmachine.com Podcast with @dszymborski.fangraphs.com ⚾️How ZiPS views the young White Sox players like Colson Montgomery, Shane Smith, Kyle Teel, and Edgar Quero ⚾️ Jim Margalus breaking the Mike Clevinger news soxmachine.com/2025/09/podc...

n light of there being an Oasis concert in the US after two decades, I looked at my MediaMonkey stats, and among Britpop bands, they're only second in my total listens, behind Ocean Colour Scene.

Home runs are the new home runs.

as for the third kid

"The unfortunately named Milledge Madsen changed his name upon becoming an adult." (Not actually a quote)