all Venezuelans, if that weren't clear. with families both here and back home. and many of them will be competing in the World Baseball Classic (think World Cup for baseball) in two months.

far from a novel observation, but separating baseball life outside it is impossible: - Jose Altuve, best 2B of our era - current stars: Ronald Acuña, Wilson Contreras, Salvador Perez, Eugenio Suarez, Gleyber Torres, Ranger Suarez - Felix Hernandez and Bobby Abreu, both on the HOF ballot

while cleaning my office I found an old hard drive. on the old hard drive contained a file path Brad's Files > Pictures > Funny. the folder had one picture:

I'm glad Tony Dokoupil and DJ Khaled are here to walk me through these perilous times.

the ultimate democratic party response: i LOVE the crazy illegal thing you just did, but could you perhaps come to my office to sign form 317b for it?

I admire the Creation Museum's scientific commitment to simulating Ark-like conditions

New webpage from DART advertising the agency's benefits to local cities, emphasizing economic development, capital investments, and security improvements. Also included is data on ridership by mode for each member city. www.dart.org/about/public...

also open to chatting with any transit-savvy Chicago or Chicagoland people about the infrastructural funding Arlington Heights and the Bears were discussing

anyone who lives in or near the Arlington Heights region where the Chicago Bears were planning to relocate? would love to chat!

not a great result, but at least we have still have abundant drinking water *taps earpiece* what's this?

twitch stream-literate friends: if I'm trying to have a twitch stream with light gaming and chatting, do I need a dual monitor set up?

THE LAST OF US (2013, Neil Druckmann; 2023, Craig Mazin)

Fixing DOT’s delivery capabilities would be great. bsky.app/profile/nyc....

braddie downer checking in: this essay on Japanese social and cultural decline anticipating America's near-future should ring alarm bells oceandrops.substack.com/p/japan-is-w...

The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org calmatters.org/investigatio...

a greiving nation recites his catchphrase in perfect unison

In July I wrote about the camp the Trump administration named "Alligator Alcatraz," showing why it fits the definition of a concentration camp and is part of a global heritage of brutal extrajudicial detention while also furthering an American tradition of abusing minorities & noncitizens. [3/5]

I wondered aloud, sincerely, if the White House remodel was upsetting people outside the typical beeskee profile. I described those people as "normies". V fun 48 hours!

I'd be very interested in a MARTY SUPREME told from Rachel's perspective

I didn't know Tatiana very well, but back in 2009, she was the first person ever to edit a music essay I wrote! She encouraged me to start writing and to keep going, and it was a gift I will be grateful for until the day I die www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

canceled my paid, LLM-poisoned Grammarly account

apologies in advance to every white woman celebrating or performing for their inclusion in next quarter's Erika Kirk memes

Hiring Mike Brown was 100% the right move. Young players who would have been rotting away are thriving

I reposted three @ashwinrodrigues.com articles I really enjoyed. everything else he wrote was just aight, but those three hit different

the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social let me go longform insane about everything allegedly hitting different lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...

I wrote about Arsenal supporters finding themselves lumped in with a nihilistic cult of serial jerkoffs for @defector.com defector.com/a-tale-of-tw...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

This is what it's like to drive through Arlington, Texas

[weezy voice] booty so fat that I had to grab the calipers nypost.com/2025/12/26/h...

Logging onto this app is like logging into a parallel universe, the universe where everyone reads the news

wow. Merry Christmas. (Somebody who knows computers help me access this.)

last effort: I run a baseball site with some of my best, smartest, and most talented friends. we do fun and engaging work all year long, and it's about to get more expensive to read that work as of 1/1. I'd much rather you get in the door as cheap as possible. It also makes for a great gift:

i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com

mama, I made it! (the passanthallich bot): frontofficesports.com/mlb-scouting...

MLB's tech regulation plans give itself full control over who can do business with baseball. And I learned an AI scouting firm — founded by the uncle of an exec in Rob Manfred’s inner circle — may win a bid. Team sources and antitrust experts told me it creates a conflict of interest. NEW from me:

my guy at the barbershop had this printed for $5. even threw in Rush Hour 7 for free

man she's cooked. that's the best she got?

silence is a statement, not a veto

I know I'm washed bc ain't nobody invited me to a marty supreme screening

One day I'll have to tell my grandkids about Kanye and Onika's heel turn. Twisted fiction, sick addiction/ gather around children zip it listen

"The insinuations ... that the negro isn't ever free and that he is expecting a 'new birth' pretty nearly verifies the fact that he is listening to a lot of outside paid-for propaganda." - Calvin Griffith, founding owner of the Minnesota Twins

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

what are they hiding

For my sins, I've used Google Gemini for searches that the degraded Google can't do well. I just read past the helpful robot-talk slop - it points me to the sources, that's all I need, don't tell me I'm a smart special boy for asking

Aliyah Boston come down to Dallas and you won’t get headlines like this.

I encourage everyone to read Jay's (@jayjaffe.bsky.social) thoughtful column about Ryan Braun's Hall of Fame candidacy. Enjoyed Jay's very human and personal interrogation of his coverage of Braun and how his profession and identity (can relate) shaped his approach, then and now.

I lied the first one will be about my fuckass town's privatized water that turns salty every winter because Veolia cuts corners