it's a seasonal product, like a PSL

I forgot to mention that the bases were loaded. They are no longer loaded after a walk and a two-run single

UNC's Caden Glauber threw 65 pitches yesterday and Scott Forbes just brought him back into today's game on zero rest.

come on

Rockies OF Benny Montgomery, the 8th pick in the 2021 draft, has retired per MiLB's transactions page. Had swing concerns out of the draft, but then he lost 2024 to shoulder surgery and hasn't hit at all since his return.

HS draft international free agent HS draft college draft

a true trailblazer ... and a delight to work with the few times I had the opportunity

RFK Jr thinks this is a blueprint

MLB wants to outsource player development to colleges. College coaches:

obviously it's the curse of Vozinha's mother

we're watching the Phillies game now on delay and whoa boy did Old Man John Smoltz yell at some clouds today

Props to @keithlaw.bsky.social for (I think only partly cheekily) comparing prospect McGonigle to Rogers Hornsby

if you remember the 2017 board game Elysium, it's back, sort of, in a streamlined, rethemed version called First Giants. I actually liked it better, although I still don't love it: meadowparty.com/blog/2026/06...

shouldn't Brazil's national anthem also have just one name

get this "match momentum" woo off my screen

"Please rise for the national anthem of Australia" (PA begins playing Birds of Tokyo's "Lanterns")

MLB’s proposal to gut the draft is bad for baseball, period. www.instagram.com/reel/DZxnz24...

Join us tonight as Team England Manager Thomas Tuchel kicks things off with a first pitch at 6:25 p.m.!

Susan Choi's FLASHLIGHT is an ambitious novel that spans decades in the lives of four characters ... none of whom is very likeable. My review: meadowparty.com/blog/2026/06...

MLB sees every golden egg as a sign that somewhere out there is a goose that needs to be killed.

Just throw him fastballs all day.

they gilded the filly?

Matthew Boyd and his wife Ashley have run an NGO to help at-risk kids in Uganda for the past decade. Now they're partnering with Connect Roasters on a new Ugandan coffee release to raise funds to expand their efforts. My story at @theathletic.com (unlocked): www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

Vitello may be in way over his head, but firing him now would require the Giants to accept about $10 million in sunk costs (as well as admitting, publicly, to a huge mistake). I would be shocked if they did so.

This is a man who is unused to being questioned. Managing in MLB <> coaching in the SEC.

see, it's not that hard

name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you

the companion piece to yesterday’s 2016 redraft looks at the first-rounders from that year who didn’t pan out … and there are a LOT of them: www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

On our very first Pride Night in 2013, Jason Collins threw out the first pitch. Tonight his brother, Jarron, honors him.

we’re all thinking of the same pitcher, right?

never has this GIF been more sorely needed

The bigoted players appear to lack the courage of their convictions. If they're going to quote that book, they should read Matthew 6:1-7.

my annual redraft column, this year looking back at the 2016 draft and how it might go today given what we know now, is up for subscribers to @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

my cat’s breath smells like backrooms!

Raisins. Trash food. They ruin everything they touch. I'm sorry your grapes went bad but just throw them out.

Meanwhile, the Jackson estate has successfully suppressed discussion of all of the allegations of sexual abuse. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

the Washingtonewyork Post

with Long Island native Brandon Bussi in goal

my colleague @grantbrisbee.bsky.social with an excellent take on the Giants’ pitchers loudly shouting their bigotry on Pride Night: www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

PK Subban looks like he forgot to take the hanger out of that jacket

I wrote about Jacob Gonzalez’ transformation this year, talking to him and White Sox director of hitting Ryan Fuller about how he turned his swing and his career around: www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

underrated part of the Knicks winning is that it underscores how incompetent the Jets have been

this turnip went to Dartmouth, he is completely aware of what he is saying

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

Matt Liberatore has now allowed 14 HR in 70.2 IP after allowing 19 in 151.2 IP last year

Hot take: you can't call it an album if the total running time is 11 minutes. that's barely an EP.

The Boston Red Sox are using a 30-year-old backup catcher with a career OBP in the majors of .281 as their leadoff hitter today.

these assholes didn't deserve this many words written about them