Honestly I had assumed that you would need an active ESPNU sub to access it much like UFC PPVs under ESPN+ so this is better than that I guess.

Ten-year-old Jeffrey is extremely hyped that Roger Craig is a Hall of Famer.

There is no worse feeling than almost being able to put a pin on 220k words or whatever it’s been, and your computer keeps auto correcting Jhonny to Johnny.

Watched an Italian named Ian qualify in the snowboarding today. We contain multitudes.

Some more Top-101-related stuff to read: Jarrett explains how we landed on Konnor Griffin at number one. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

Marking out for a Oshima guest judge appearance in Battle Scorpionfish

101 prospects, ranked. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

This feels like a sixth seed in the west team but also better than watching them every other year I’ve been out here.

—30— www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

Watched Battle Mushroom tonight and the challenger said he would shave his head if he lost, and the commentary noted he weighed in at 230 pounds but moved fast for a big guy.

I like Brendan Donovan but boy is that a lot for Brendan Donovan.

The Orioles got some new faces then traded some new faces and now have a good amount of MLB ready help but not much depth.

If I still lived in Connecticut….

I can only read this in Homestar Runner voice

Honestly can’t blame Bannan at all for wanting to get the heck out. Wednesday may not score the rest of the season.

I’ve found the original Iron Chef on YouTube, and honestly this might be the best televised sport ever.

“Feeling okay about warming up to the Mammoth after not being able to get into hockey for 20 years” /turns on Mammoth/Hurricanes game “Motherfucker!”

There's a new episode of Five & Dive up for your afternoon commute. @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social, @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com and I talked about the Brewers selling (aw, they're sweet), the Nationals selling (hello, human resources), and the White Sox buying (meme not created yet).

The Red Sox made some buy trades (and graduated the top prospect in baseball) so this system isn’t as strong as it’s been in recent years, but I am curious to see how the 2025 college arms develop. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The Mammoth pregame show said “actually the Mammoth have the goaltending advantage tonight” and that has uh not been the case.

Maybe I’ve just been worn down by a very demanding five-year-old DJ, but I’m coming around to Kpop Demon Hunters being a legitimately great pop album.

Can add at least one more win to the Mets 2026 projection if Darvish is actually retiring.

I keep forgetting to get a snow shovel for the house and it has not mattered the last two winters, probably fine.

TA: Mets Get Their Man in Freddy Peralta by Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com) and Jeffrey Paternostro (@jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

25 down, five to go, and today is a very Rays system, in that there is almost no difference between the sixth and 17th best prospects here. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

Williams and Sproat were (spoiler alert) 41 and 76 on the Top 101, they are also exactly the two guys from the top nine Mets names I’d be most inclined to trade.

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“Let them eat Fishwife”

It’s the time of the year when I’m 20 lists in. I’m not sleeping well. The kid is sick. My brain is the consistency of lukewarm oatmeal. I’ve used the phrase “a fair bit more” too many times. The days are still too short. And I’m utterly convinced Slowdive’s Souvlaki is the greatest album ever.

The Twins system is always good enough to be easy to write, and Twins enough to be kind of boring to write.

I have no particular interest in the Paramount Star Trek, but seeing the trailers for Academy really annoy me because the lighting remains “would have failed you as an intro to filmmaking TA” level bad.

The Mets are going to have an awful lot of very good prospects to roster or trade over the next 24 months. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

It’s always good to hit the portion of list season where I look over something I wrote this morning and have no memory of writing half of it

Nathan and I went over the Cubs list last night and they have the pieces to do this, but man this is going to be a bad system after this deal.

I do sometimes wonder if baseball executives follow the sport (four of these guys are in our Top 50, two in the Top 25)

So it’s halfway to being able to run.

Kid has strep and WiFi was out most of the day but yeah I wrote this.

Look I understand it is the holidays and everyone is busy with other stuff, but you really gotta tell me when there is a new Thermals song dropped out of nowhere on Christmas.

With Wednesday mostly existing in a weird liminal space until relegation and new ownership, its amusing how perfectly the Mammoth have filled the gap of “annoying team that should score more and gives up dumb goals immediately after they do score.”

The white smoke rises from Central Jersey. Pope Kevin or Pope Konnor?

It’s very funny to me that a certain strain of Mets fan is doing “Woke Lindor got rid of all the conservative white guys” when Jeff McNeil’s political donations are public. Also it’s baseball there are always more conservative white guys around.

Not beating the aging hipster allegations.

I’m easy to shop for

Wishing each and every one of you a very Nabil Crismat.

Oh honey

I do not promote the pod a ton because frankly we already have too many listeners for me, but I think we’ve been on a good run lately with this week’s ep being particularly good (and barely about the Mets). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Nothing but respect for my Odysseus