Stop trying to make Jed Hoyer happen.

MLB hopes to recruit LGBTQ applicants through its new Billy Bean Fellowship - www.outsports.com/2025/10/10/2...

I wrote this before yesterday's game but after Kershaw's performance, I'm gonna say that I nailed it.

If you want to trace the Dodgers' rise to MLB's juggernaut, look to when their front office starting hiring smart gays like John Focht.

Every baseball writer worth their salt has published a postseason preview today. This is the only one your eyes will thank you for reading.

Seattle plans to host an LGBTQ Pride Match at the FIFA World Cup next year - www.outsports.com/2025/9/26/24...

It would be wonderful if Kershaw's many moments of baseball joy were the only memories of his Hall of Fame career that I’d be taking with me. Alas, for any LGBTQ baseball fan, his legacy can’t be that uncomplicated.

In each of the three previous seasons, Hendriks' Clemente Award bio contained references to his support for the LGBTQ community. In 2025, there is nary a mention. Gosh, what might have changed in the past year to cause such an omission?

Goggles? Check. Beer? Check. Shirts? *Crickets* It's another Slutty Phillies clinching celebration!

Thanks to trailblazer Eric Bach, for three games in Washington this week, baseball will finally have an LGBTQ soundtrack.

Welcoming Anthony Rizzo home as God intended with the one and only @kenschultz.bsky.social

Based on their success setting up LGBTQ couples for their YouTube dating show, a whole lot of single gays and lesbians might suddenly be asking, “How do I download the U.S. Open app?”

Alexa, play "Intoxicated." Forever.

Celebrating Sammy Sosa, Derrek Lee and (hopefully) a Cubs W with the one and only @kenschultz.bsky.social

When you think of great gay meet cutes, you picture a list with “Heartstopper,” “Red, White, and Royal Blue” and “Love, Simon.” You’d likely have to scroll down for a while before you come to the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation. But Pete Buttigieg's first date is really sweet!

When I was in Atlanta, I planned the most Ken Schultz doubleheader I could think of: find the “Love, Simon” house in the afternoon and go to a Braves game that night.

The NFL is a much more interesting and fulfilling league when it has room for people who dream like the Vikings cheerleaders and people who dream like J.J. McCarthy.

After observing football fans freaking out about male cheerleaders, I wrote about that time a baseball team went full camp with its anti-mascot. In 1984 no less! Crazy Crab 4eva!

My nine year old self is going to disown me for writing this but the baseball figure I was cheering the loudest this weekend was an umpire. Jen Pawol is an inspiration.

MLB is ready for Jen Pawol to be its first female umpire, says first out gay umpire - www.outsports.com/2025/8/9/241...

Ryne Sandberg experienced so many legendary years in baseball. But his happiest ones might have been his last two seasons when he came back to experience the game with Margaret, the love of his life.

In the same year the White Sox held Disco Demolition Night and finished 5th, new HOFer Dave Parker and the Pirates adopted a gay disco anthem as their team song and won the World Series.

The Top 5 gayest moments at this season's MLB Pride Nights. www.outsports.com/2025/7/26/24...

“I was bricked up!” NFL star Baker Mayfield admits to on-field chub after running over a defender - buff.ly/NGHZQLx

Hulk Hogan wasn’t complicated. The ‘good guy’ and the ‘bad guy’ were always the same man. - www.outsports.com/2025/7/24/24...

Of all the euphemisms I came up with for this piece (and there are A LOT), the one I'm most proud of is "his little Baker was signaling a first down."

New Substack post!

The Rangers paid tribute to one of the gayest movies of the decade but a rainbow fanny pack is still a bridge too far...

One day every year, I get to be style superstar Carson Kressley and today is that day!

Worth it for the Lindor/J-Rod/Peña Smile Battle alone!

Our manifesting powers are unstoppable*! *Tonight** **For this one very specific game

Manifesting a Cubs comeback with the one and only @kenschultz.bsky.social

Can an MLB Pride Night still thrive when the team stinks, it's 100 degrees out, and the opposing pitcher throws a one-hitter? Chappell Roan and the Orioles said "It's where I belong..."

Happy Pride 🌈 Chicago

When the Toronto Blue Jays want to show what their city and country are all about, the first place they turn to is its gay men’s chorus.

The only way the Chanticleer could be any gayer would be if you lifted off the mascot head Scooby Doo-style to reveal Harvey Fierstein.

Baseball people talk all the time about the ideal relief pitcher being someone who shows up and wants the ball even after a meltdown on the mound. Despite a rough season, if there’s such a thing as an ally gamer, Liam Hendriks showed us exactly what it looks like.

There has never been a better time for the NFL to record a production of A Chorus Line’s “I Hope I Get It” and pass it off as an episode of “Hard Knocks.”

Tax money for new stadium grift, meet institutionalized homophobia! This was the legislative equivalent of a peanut butter cup that induces vomiting.

How appropriate that while playing for a team called the Twins, Castro was giving mother.

This Mariners Pride video message was so spot on and perfect, it might as well have been spoken by Dave Niehaus.

My annual magnum opus about rainbow jerseys and gay tankard mugs just dropped! Presenting the 2025 Outsports MLB Pride Night Guide! If you enjoy references to 19th century Puritan literature, Drag Race, xxx twink websites, and Juan Soto, this is the epic you've been waiting for!

While everyone wants to be Ted Williams hitting a home run in his last at bat, it’s next to impossible for a player to leave on their terms on the field. But as Aiden Phipps shows, if a player looks at the game from the right perspective, they’ll still be able to leave it full of gratitude.

In his time as a player, Pete Rose was celebrated for breaking Ty Cobb’s career hits record. Almost as improbably, he might have also surpassed Cobb’s record for consecutive days as a terrible human.

As a card carrying member of The Woke Mob, I think I can speak for all of us when I say: Hey Keith Hernandez, no one is offended by the term “drag.”

My worlds collide in this week's Talkin' Gaysball column! The extra innings ghost runner rule is MLB's Badonka Dunk Tank.

The Chesapeake Oyster Catchers. The Sacramento Gold Diggers. The minor leagues have us asking: Are straight people OK?

Tom Daley could be perfect for The Traitors. The Olympic champion overflows with charm, charisma, and a willingness to ditch his shirt at any moment. If you’ve ever been to a gay bar for more than ten seconds, you can verify: guys like that tend to get what they want.

Thanks to Kim Ng's new career move, a softball league which hasn’t even started yet already has a better commissioner than Rob Manfred.

Muscles, dancing, swinging: The Party Animals are the gayest team in baseball. www.outsports.com/2025/4/19/24...