Off baseball for a minute. Two years ago, my dad nearly died fighting off two kinds of blood cancer. He did a stem cell transplant (with me). It was a long, difficult, at times, heartbreaking process, but he was cured. He wrote a memoir on it here www.amazon.com/First-They-K...

Just published - "First They Kill You." My story of two cancers and stem-cell replacement. It's got self-doubt and bad dreams, medical marvels, helpful hallucinations and the love of family and friends. I judge it a damn good read but that's just me talking. www.amazon.com/First-They-K...

A look inside the Storehouse tonight. 140 people and counting ..

A generation ago, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's World Series CG would have seemed impossible. There were few scouts in Japan and little attention paid to its players. I spoke to @danevans108.bsky.social, current LAD director of travel Scott Akasaki, and fmr scout Ted Heid about how they changed all of that.

Giving this one more bump, before Game 5, because, thanks to @mattmonagan.bsky.social, I wish I could've been at The Storehouse Bar and Grill when Vladdy Jr. went yard and the Jays bounced back from an 18-inning gut-punch the night before (OK, the finish actually came earlier in the day Tuesday).

Always read Mono

In Canada's northernmost city, 1,455 miles from Toronto, where polar bears and narwhals roam - there's a bar called The Storehouse. It's filled with diehard Blue Jays fans who'll be eagerly watching Game 3 tonight. “It feels like we’re on the moon." www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

Really enjoyed this from @mattmonagan.bsky.social about Jays fans following the Series at the northernmost sports bar in Canada www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

“It feels like we’re on the moon.” In Canada’s northernmost city, more than 1400 miles from Toronto where polar bears and narwhals roam - there’s a bar called The Storehouse. It’s filled every night with diehard Blue Jays fans. A very fun one to write. www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

“It feels like we’re on the moon.” In Canada’s northernmost city, more than 1400 miles from Toronto where polar bears and narwhals roam - there’s a bar called The Storehouse. It’s filled every night with diehard Blue Jays fans. A very fun one to write. www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

I finally boiled down 65 years of listening to pop, rock and R&B to a favorite Top 20. See if you agree or think I'm crazy. www.charlesmonagan.com/2025/10/21/t...

50 years ago, cameras caught Carlton Fisk waving his ball fair in the '75 World Series. An iconic shot that delighted audiences and made it standard for TV directors to film player reactions/emotions moving forward. And it all happened because of a rat. www.mlb.com/news/carlton...

50 years ago, cameras caught Carlton Fisk waving his ball fair in the '75 World Series. An iconic shot that delighted audiences and made it standard for TV directors to film player reactions/emotions moving forward. And it all happened because of a rat. www.mlb.com/news/carlton...

DA POPE kinda joined the Morning lineup pod last night. Check it all out here youtu.be/oKfflVaYFtY?si…

They call her The Baseball Princess 13 year old Francys Sandoval recently led Venezuela to LLWS intermediate title, striking out boys with her 76 mph fastball. Her ultimate dream? “Las Grandes Ligas” The big leagues www.mlb.com/news/13-year...

she does not care

Georgina Corrick just won AUSL's Pitcher of the Year award, she's maybe the current best softball pitcher on Earth, she'll be leading the Talons this weekend in the championship. But where she might feel most at home is under the sea. www.mlb.com/news/ausl-st...

8 sluggers will be hammering dingers as far as they can tonight in Atlanta. But 70 years ago, Bob Montag hit the farthest homer in Georgia (and maybe all of pro baseball) history. 518 miles. www.mlb.com/news/bob-mon...

8 sluggers will be crushing baseballs in the Home Run Derby in two days in Atlanta. But none of them will eclipse Atlanta’s longest home run, and maybe the longest home run ever: Bob Montag’s 518-mile dinger in 1954. www.mlb.com/news/bob-mon...

There's a 103 mph-throwing @MLB Draft prospect named Jack Bauer, after Kiefer Sutherland's "24" character. I contacted Sutherland's reps, not expecting him to get back to me, but he did. "I'm not the most avid fan, but now I've got something to root for" www.mlb.com/news/mlb-dra...

There's a 103 mph-throwing @MLB Draft prospect named Jack Bauer, after Kiefer Sutherland's "24" character. I contacted Sutherland's reps, not expecting him to get back to me, but he did. "I'm not the most avid fan, but now I've got something to root for" www.mlb.com/news/mlb-dra...

70 years ago, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach broke ground playing for the Rockford Peaches. Today, her granddaughter Aubrey Leach is breaking ground starring for the Blaze in the AUSL: www.mlb.com/news/aubrey-...

70 years ago, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach broke ground playing for the Rockford Peaches. Today, her granddaughter Aubrey Leach is breaking ground starring for the Blaze in the AUSL: www.mlb.com/news/aubrey-...

Yandy Díaz -- MLB's most jacked player -- lifts hundreds of pounds and eats everything in sight. But there's one unexpected key to his routine "When I’m working out, I always try to watch Tom and Jerry for like an hour. It clears my mind, it relaxes me." www.mlb.com/news/yandy-d...

Yandy Díaz -- MLB's most jacked player -- lifts hundreds of pounds and eats everything in sight. But there's one unexpected key to his routine "When I’m working out, I always try to watch Tom and Jerry for like an hour. It clears my mind, it relaxes me." www.mlb.com/news/yandy-d...

Via @mattmonagan.bsky.social, profile of Adam Hall (2025 with Nashville Sounds, now Biloxi Shuckers) and his Bermudian upbringing #Brewers www.mlb.com/brewers/news...

"Everybody just sort of looks at each other in the other team's dugout and says, 'What ... what is that?'" .@waynestbaseball's Ethan Getting just might have the wildest, sky-scraping delivery in the game. www.mlb.com/news/ethan-g...

Pretty great to grow up in Waterbury CT and then one day have your name on the marquee of the legendary Palace Theater ("Sold Out," too!). It all ties into my harrowing, hopeful "illness memoir" on stem-cell replacement. You can see the first chapter at charlesmonagan.com. Publishers take note!

Great story. I must confess that I preferred MVP 2004 because of the superior experience in Home Run Derby mode, which was my favorite thing to play. (Go ahead and yell at me.)

"We wanted to make the best sports game at EA. It wasn't even the best baseball game, it was the best sports game." 20 years later, I talked to producers, gamers, the Dropkick Murphys about maybe the greatest sports video game ever. MVP Baseball 2005. www.mlb.com/news/why-mvp...

We're hiring! If you're bilingual in English and Japanese and are excited by this job listing, please apply! www.mlb.com/careers/oppo...

Y'all, I always thought there were no negro-league baseball cards except reprints produced later. But thanks to @mattmonagan.bsky.social, TIL there WERE contemporaneous cards in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and now my mind is blown. www.mlb.com/news/the-lar...

The great @mattmonagan.bsky.social is talking a little WBC Qualifiers on the MORNING LINEUP PODCAST this morning. Get it here: open.spotify.com/episode/5nyB... And below are the game times in EST for the tourney which starts tomorrow night in the US:

The first Black player to homer at Yankee Stadium. A streak of 14 consecutive hits. A .410 average against White MLB/MiLBers in 83 ABs. A star on the '27 Japan barnstorming tour that helped usher in pro baseball in the country. The legend of Rap Dixon. www.mlb.com/news/rap-dix...

Oh to be young and at a Doors concert in a high school auditorium in 1967. doinkright.substack.com/p/break-on-t...

Way back in 1993, a 20-year-old Ichiro was sent to play in the now defunct Hawaiian Winter League to change his swing -- which he developed using a coal shovel. Good thing he never did change it up. mlb.com/news/hawaiia...

“In a way, there’s no ‘Major League’ without Bob Uecker.” “Major League” director David S Ward talked about the joy, humor and improvisation Ueck brought to his iconic character Harry Doyle www.mlb.com/news/bob-uec...

“In a way, there’s no ‘Major League’ without Bob Uecker.” “Major League” director David S Ward talked about the joy, humor and improvisation Ueck brought to his iconic character Harry Doyle www.mlb.com/news/bob-uec...

"The most daring concept in stadium building since Houston discovered the dome." Back in the 1960s, San Diego nearly built a floating ballpark. I looked into the awesomeness and feasibility of the concept with the help of legendary stadium architect Janet Marie Smith.

I love weird baseball history, and so I really liked this from @mattmonagan.bsky.social about the wild premise San Diego had in the 1960s to build a ballpark in the middle of Mission Bay: --> www.mlb.com/padres/news/...

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social Letters from an American, 1-5-25

“I was out of my mind and I go let me have your suit.” I talked to former Spokane Indians manager Tim Flannery about the wild time he was ejected, came back as the team mascot and inspired his team to a big win. www.mlb.com/news/tim-fla...

So good

Gift link to the typically excellent NYT obit. Many of the greatest athletes are lunatics, and Rickey Henderson was no different. It’s great. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/s...

RIP to the greatest home run trot of all time

Because it's been relatively quiet this week, went all in on the Morning Lineup pod on why Pete Alonso to the Mets makes sense. Mostly because he loves Queens and Queens loves him.

In so many ways, Randy Moss was superhuman. The purple blur who ran by everyone and jumped out of the stadium. In the face of an all-too-human diagnosis, Vikings fans, coaches, players and legends had 84 in their hearts on Monday Night Football. www.nytimes.com/athletic/599...

I remember I tried to make this trade tree like 6 years ago and gave up after like 20 minutes. This is great https://buff.ly/3ZynaRK

@joeyvotto.bsky.social would like a word

I absolutely love that Aaron Judge's dropped ball in the World Series is up for auction dodgers.auctions.mlb.com/2024-world-s...