The whole article can be found in Sports Illustrated...in 1959. vault.si.com/vault/1959/0...

It's always amusing when people think pitchers from the 1950s had invincible arms, when the attrition rate was terrible. And it was known at the time, and there were even predictions in the future that have almost come to pass by 2025. (This is from 1959)

Post you from a different era (1990s). This one since I still had the file right in front of me.

Now that I think of it, didn't the world suddenly start to get a lot worse once we stopped getting new Ron Swanson content?

I'd really like to see what Polymarket is theoretically considering a finding that Jesus Christ returned. Does he have to have a press conference about it?

Every few years, I notice someone owns ZiPSProjections.com and I'm momentarily outraged until I look it up and it turns out that I do but I just don't use it, then I instantly forget that I own it.

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

yes. it's actually kind of necessary to have ballast on the ballot if you're hoping to elect someone because getting to 75% requires some collective focus. A few years ago @dszymborski.fangraphs.com helped me illustrate this by running some Monte Carlo simulations blogs.fangraphs.com/the-gate-cou...

Of all the players on the Dodgers roster this year, Michael Conforto was definitely one of them.

Yeah, definitely! Thanks, Grok!

He’s turning it off when he sees the 10th didn’t start with a guy on 2nd

This game has been so exciting that even Rob Manfred might be watching it.

If the Blue Jays win, I just hope it isn't a walkoff homer allowed by Clayton Kershaw on the last pitch of his career. It feels like fate is trying and setting is up for that.

Google Photos on my phone occasionally sends me a collage of food pictures it calls "Tasty Treats" so I'm guessing it didn't see that episode of It's Always Sunny.

My Microsoft 365 icons appear to have changed after a reboot and I need to now angrily vote against someone somehow

This game has been going on so long that Elon Musk was widely liked at the start of it.

I think we’ve already set the World Series record for references to Jupiter, Florida.

I swear, that COVID vaccine I first got in 2021 has ravaged my body; I feel like I've aged four and a half years since then!

Obi-Wan Jacoby might be able to stop him too

What if the only thing that can stop Boba Chette is the Kirk Saarloos pit?

The birth date of Julio Franco is chronogically closer to when the first trilobites appeared on Earth than to today.

I'm probably the only, but I think it would be fun if only the team and the umpire knew a team's batting order the first time through and you had to wait for their music like the Royal Rumble to see who was coming out the first time.

The worst was when my calico cat Pandora passed away in 2018. For months, Galileo would walk around Pandora's preferred area of the house and just give this mournful wail that was just heart-breaking. He was otherwise a very quiet cat; the most he would ever say was a small low "meh" for your food.

Oh geez, Constantine is standing on the couch, looking at the the top of the pillow that Mercutio (and since Galileo, *only* Mercutio) would always sits on, and howling like a coyote.

This probably sounds dumb, but I'd never hit Ohtani leadoff so that the pitcher has to actively face a batter while being aware that Ohtani is lurking in the shadows and will arrive soon

When Vladimir Guerrero Jr. debuted in 2019, I tried to make my cat Galileo feel old by noting to him that he was older than Vladito, but since he was a cat, he did not understand the concept or any words in the sentence I said.

The last time the Toronto Blue Jays played in the World Series is closer chronologically to the Cuban Missile Crisis than it is to tonight.

This looks like an illegal shift.

Had to put my oldest cat, my slow-witted-but-friendly tux cat, to sleep this afternoon. You always think that it'll get easier, but it never really does. He had had early stage kidney disease that was being managed, but at 17, kidneys can suddenly go down really quickly.

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Farm to poker table

artisanal ponzi schemes

[Sees Chauncey Billups news] Wait, there's a Portland mafia? Do they commit small-batch misdemeanors and enact farm-to-table protection rackets? Do they do drive-by-shootings in Subaru Outbacks with Keep Portland Weird bumper stickers?

True story: the original decision to develop ZiPS was made after about eight beers and a lot of weed.

“You only adopted the red zone. I was born in it… molded by it.”

The baby on the cover is my grandfather

In a couple of months, the release date of Nirvana's Nevermind will be closer chronologically to Walter O'Malley agreeing to move the Dodgers to Brooklyn than to the present day.

I really wish an NFL player would learn to do a really good Bane impression and just quote Bane all night. "Let's check the mic on Jaxson Dart on that incomplete pass on third and short." "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WE ARE, WHAT MATTERS IS OUR PLAN"

Given how the Angels are run, I had to double-check if Kurt Suzuki's one-year deal was to be the manager or the catcher.

I'm tired of these new fat people putting protein in everything. I'm old school fat: I spent my college years and 20s ingesting massive amounts of beer and donuts and pizza with no mitigating nutritional benefit and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. #tradbelly

Some angry fan: I want a 1960s NL catcher

I take no public position on the politics, as usual, but in a country with hundreds of millions of people, you can probably find an equally good political candidate who *didn't* think at some point think that getting a Nazi, or at least Nazi-adjacent tattoo was something that was a good idea to have

Tony Vitello might not work out, but there are only 30 managerial jobs and hundreds of good candidates, so you might as well go for upside. It's certainly more interesting than "OK, let's find a 1980s NL West catcher who needs a job."

You know the one

Can I say something without people getting mad? The French Crown Jewels look like the jacket your kooky aunt wears to Christmas

Up on @fangraphs.com, I wrote some sentences and stuff about Pat Murphy and the postseason. blogs.fangraphs.com/postseason-m...