Yankee players have come out for abusively loud stadium noise and alternate uniforms in the last week. Can we just stop asking them their opinions?

Percentage-wise, the budget shortfall is not massive. Math is hard. 😵‍💫

This is going to sound weird, but I mean it: I don't think there's anyone who's as good at watching baseball as Sam is.

I posted this review earlier today and it reminded me of this framed print I have in the shop.

I'm crazy for @thisamericanlife.org, I really am. Can't wait for each new episode. It's just that ... there aren't enough of them. o/c I get them completely free of charge so I am NOT complaining ... but I'd be a financial supporter if they made more than 2 episodes per month (the rest are reruns).

Among the dumber bird names…

So what are you doing? Have you supported GoFundMes? Called your AG’s office? Showed up outside a hospital? Made sure a kid knew they had your support?

31 years ago today on 4/19/1995 white supremacist terrorists bombed Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. In the days after the attack, a Muslim-American man named Ibrahim Ahmad was blamed for the attack. This is the story of the man who didn't bomb Oklahoma City slate.com/news-and-pol...

Went to the party, signed the car…

RT @JomboyMedia: Jacob Misiorowski has a custom Gengar glove with a Pokémon card in the web

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Two wonderful pieces of mail today! The local library has accepted my book! And a baseball writer of renown has sent me pure kindness! Thank you, @robneyer.bsky.social for your thoughtfulness. Check out the book at www.retrosheet-book.com and see what all this fuss is about :)

the problem is teens

Just another baseball score: 25-13 in the third inning: naiastats.prestosports.com/sports/bsb/2...

A great day for baseball books in this house. Congrats, @jaywigley.bsky.social and @michaelclair.bsky.social!

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

Sometimes I think that being a sportscaster is a vain and vapid and meaningless existence in times as fraught as ours, and then I think about what it would be like to be one of these miserable lowlifes.

Most games played, Cleveland history: Terry Turner: 1,619 José Ramírez: 1,618 Nap Lajoie: 1,614 When he plays his 1,620th game, Ramírez will become the only active player to currently lead a franchise in games played

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

Writing about old baseball teams and listening to R.E.M.'s "Document." Doesn't get much better than this. I'm the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but it's the music bringing the flood.

Scored a hit

I missed the anniversary by a couple of weeks, but ~30 years ago I moved to Seattle for a job with ESPN's website. This was the result of a few generous souls and happy accidents, plus a tiny bit of pluckiness. Turns out nobody's more suited to the Northwest than I, and so I remain blessed today.

I'm sorry to be pedanticial, but hearing baseball folks say they'll be "judicial" in their use of challenges does amuse me.

If you’re not subscribed to Joe’s newsletter, you should be!

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

Imagine claiming to be a Star Trek fan while expressing disdain for at least 90% of what Star Trek is (and always has been)

If this book is not yet in your personal library, consider this my most earnest recommendation.

I like the challenge system. I'd prefer for it to stay. But I suspect it's going to be a gateway to full ABS. www.theringer.com/2026/03/25/m...

I already read it for blurbing purposes, but happy to get @michaelclair.bsky.social's new book about the Czechia baseball team's 2023 World Baseball Classic run. It's so good! And written with so much love for the game and for its subject. Go get it now! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

A first look at “The Ballpark and Beyond,” release date May 26.

Every discussion about bluesky is like “I could hang out in this smaller room with my friends, but over there is a bigger room filled with thousands of the worst people in the world having a bad faith competition”

My third book, but there’s no better feeing than when that first advance copy arrives. For a year and a half now it’s lived in some weird liminal space, real, but not real. Now it’s real.

Wrote about how immigrants are undeniably making baseball the best sport in the world right now: open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...

It’s pretty striking to see the mature response to the Cesar Chavez sexual assault allegations from his longtime supporters, especially after so many years of absolute temper tantrums when other cultural or political leaders face allegations of historic wrongdoing.

Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.

Wrote about Win Expectancy & The Human Brain pebblehunting.substack.com/p/we-were-al...

Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

I realise it'd never happen because they're both too big in the industry, but it would be very fun if Daniel Craig and Rian Johnson decided to pull a "Columbo" and start cranking out half a dozen mid-budget Benoit Blanc films every year. Imagine the stupid shit he'd be getting up to by year three.

The lesson I‘ll take from the 2026 Classic is one I’ve learned at every international baseball event I’ve been lucky enough to cover: you cannot defeat joy. So much of the world is terrible people trying to do that, but joy cannot be stopped. Be joyful when you can. They can’t take it away from you.

Watched TRAIN DREAMS on the flight and my god, that’s one of the most beautiful movies I’ve seen in a long, long time. Definitely did justice to the novella.

I love how the players and managers for basically every team in the WBC (except one) were like “we’re doing this for the people of our country” and the American team was like, “we are doing this only for the troops and beleaguered cops and ICE agents.”

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

Probably a good time to remind people that I’m writing a book on the history of the World Baseball Classic due out next year through @univnebpress.bsky.social 🤗.

Pride crosswalks are being removed elsewhere. Lyons, CO still has theirs. A small town making a visible statement. Glad you’re here to share the moment. #Photography #ScottKissPhoto #Pride

Oh @sammillerbb.bsky.social, I'm in tears.

Hey Blooskiers, can anyone explain this massive change on what's seemingly a dime, in Knox County, IL? I will engage with anyone who's got receipts. (I assume similar things happened in many other midwestern counties, and I know the standard answer is "racism" but county TWICE went big for Obama.)

there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue