The matchup we've been waiting for.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

“It’s almost like he thinks my needs are unimportant. Like he doesn’t care about my opinions, or that he doesn’t think about me at all. Now obviously that can’t possibly be true, because I am a big important boy.”

I live here. My daughter goes to school here. It’s personal.

I actually found this... kinda moving

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

This complicated world is besieged by big issues that require thoughtful questions, but today I wrote these words:

My narcissism recovery is going so well we made a TV show about it

🔥⚾️🎨 I love artist Mike Right’s illustration work for the St. Louis Cardinals. A fun, playful style that hearkens back to the glory days of sports cartoonists in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. #BaseballArt #SportsArt #SportsArtist

So, here's a thing I wasn't able to talk about publicly until now: In late August, I was visiting family in Minnesota and we all went out to dinner. As we were leaving, there was a Cybertruck in the parking lot of the restaurant. Well, I'd had a couple bourbons and was feeling my oats, so...

Can’t tell you much I despise headlines like this. You don’t know how much we think.

Well, since Eno brought this up... Here's my essay about the senseless murder of the forkball: open.substack.com/pub/robneyer...

I try not to get overly political here, but today feels like a day to make the world a better place. Reach out to your friends and loved ones, and tell them: When they use the words "major league" as a compound modifier, they should hyphenate it. "major-league hitter." There. I've done my part

Can't make it to the Refuge today? Spend 5 minutes with the Sandhill Crane family from Sunday and enjoy the parent teaching the Colt to forage & providing food... while the other parent chases off a Malard! #birds #birding #birdwatching #Crane #Cranes #bird #pnw #pdx youtu.be/ZSQ10BCmbCk?...

Made a new Ringer show called Plot Hole or Not Hole, in which I ask TV/moviemakers about perceived plot holes in their work. First guest: Vince Gilligan on a possible plot hole in Breaking Bad. If people watch, I'll get to make more of these, so, you know, please do! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQa6...

I love this city with my whole heart. I want it to be led by someone who loves it as much as I do and will work to make it more affordable for me, my family and my neighbors. Let’s have a day, New York.

Truly a brutal day for the “baseball is dying” crowd

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

I'm a reviser, with words, with memories, with reality. In my mind since the game I didn't want to end ended, Alejandro Kirk drops down a stunning, game-tying bunt. It could have worked! I've seen it work! Muggsy Allenson did it! Continue ridiculous game!

YESSSSSSS

Love him or hate him you can't deny that this is beautiful, concise prose.

Maestro time…

It's the 100-year anniversary of the wild 1925 World Series, which included a field lit on fire, spitball pitchers, home runs that bounced over the fence, a catch that remained a mystery for decades & a dramatic Game 7 in the rain. You can read all about it in my article in the new Baseball Digest!

Man, this is some sad news. UW was maybe the first website that made me realize there were other weirdos out there like me with niches like I enjoy, and even though it hasn’t been the same for a long time, I’m bummed to see it go. Rest in peace to a great community.

Eduardo Peréz again (correctly) critical of intentional walk.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

A Portland coffee shop that, as of Tuesday, had raised about $90,000 to help serve breakfast to people losing federal food benefits, has, a day later, raised nearly $200,000.

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So apparently the opening has already been pushed from 2029 to 2032, which means probably *after* 2032. Do planners and politicians ever factor in the cost of PEOPLE NOT BEING AROUND TO ENJOY A THING? North Portlanders will move, they'll die, etc before this thing opens. Caution has a pricetag too.

This has been studied to death (in a good way!). Generally speaking, 1. Lineups don't matter, but 2. Leading off your best guy is not optimal.

This mitt is heading out to be an upcoming Christmas gift. Still plenty of time to get a glove to us for restoration and gift giving for the holiday season.

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

Heading over later this week…

In the Japanese Ballpark is a perfect intro to Japanese baseball. In this week's interview, author Robert Fitts speaks to how the book came about & how folks who are interested in NPB can get started. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/npb-japanese-baseball-differences-mlb-author-interview-robert-fitts

Spooky.

There's now a livestream option for this baseball-themed show that I'm playing this Thursday night: TinyURL.com/KnuckleballStream

Every time Ohtani reached base last night made it less thinkable that he'd throw a complete game tonight, and thus more likely

well this looks awesome

My writeup of World Series Game Three is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe. www.joesheehan.com

Eduardo Peréz just absolutely nailed the analysis when Ohtani came up. Didn’t make sense to pitch around Ohtani with Betts up next.

All the rule changes to make the game more exciting in recent years and … still everyone’s okay with intentional walks?

The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.

If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.

Can’t say I ever thought about it. Just glad for Sciambi on radio.

Satchel Paige pitched in Devil’s Lake, ND, in May 1935 during his summer with the Bismarck Churchills. I would like to think, for obvious reasons, that he dined here.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)