Everything RJ McDaniel writes is a gift.

The world is a scary messy place right now, but you always have the option to put on Wolf Parade's seminal 2005 record APOLOGIES TO THE QUEEN MARY and listen to it as loud as possible, and no world where you can do that can be all bad

I think this is one of the better things I've written. When you compare two pitchers on the same team, you can get a really clear look at the million different things that go into team defense.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

i don’t want AI or colonies on mars i just want better packaging for flour

underrated album, underrated band

My favorite B-52s song.

The love boat is a really old show where they love boats or something.

Submitted this article last night, and this morning I kept thinking about "what's the difference between when a left handed hitter and right handed hitter that makes it so hard for Umpires to call borderline pitches" then I said to myself "oh my god, OH MY GOD!"

Me, struggling to remember Cal Raleigh's nickname, taking a wild guess:

When I do a search on my Mac, I now see pictures from my camera reel that include the search text. Like, if I search for FanGraphs, I'll get pictures of me in my FG t-shirt. Photos is reading and logging the text in my pictures. It's invasive and creepy. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

Trials and Stridulations: The Life of Jiminy Cricket

Who wants a really, really hard job at a really, really good place to work?

Did it hurt? When the free samples lady put you in a figure four leg lock

I imagine many of you were doing long weekend things on Friday. I strongly encourage those of you who missed it to read this article I had way too much fun writing and researching.

I'm calling him the Mass Pike and you can't stop me

As the person who hated the hardest on the overlap hats, I feel duty-bound to tell you that these are totally adorable.

When steam starts coming out of my tea kettle, does that mean it's angry?

Come meet the staff of Talk Sox on the anniversary of the site's re-launch. #redsox #boston #dirtywater

For any sabermetricians out there wondering where Charlie Pavitt's indispensable compendium of baseball research has gone, a WordPress issue caused the whole thing to be deleted. He's working on rebuilding it at this address: charliepavitt-rmhwp.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/c...

So did I just get priced out of watching the Twins, like ever again?

Just going to bump this once. I think I uncovered some cool stuff, and the site as a whole is really strong today.

I worked very hard on this. It's denser and more data-heavy than my usual writing, but I really think it's some of my best research.

The moment when I can finally wear my comfy new Brooklyn Cyclones hoodie is finally drawing near and I am so, so excited.

A Christmas Carol but it's Bob Nutting being visited by the 5 different Pirates pirate logo

Huge news for those of us tracking the names of the proprietary databases: Milwaukee's is called The Keg. One day we will know them all.

I was not prepared for Kevin Brown saying “Gobbled up by Gunnar” exactly the same way Bob Dylan sang “Tangled up in blue.”

Watching Red Sox-Marlins and literally every commercial during the last pitching change was for AI.

I found FanGraphs around 10 years ago. I imagine I just stumbled onto it through a link one day while bored at a temp job. And I just never stopped going there.

During grad school, I sent actual letters through the actual mail to five GMs, asking how a 25-year-old with an MFA in poetry and no other credentials could get involved in baseball. Only one responded, and the answer was some (polite) version of, "I regret to inform you that your dream is doomed."

While other tasks involve more danger and risk, experts say the sheer onslaught of negativity elevates this desk-and-e-mail job to the realm of savage nightmares. #twins #minnesota #mntwins

@bradleywoodrum.bsky.social and I are all over the slow base stealing beat today.

The Subway Ghosts have a show on Saturday. It's at Hifi Provisions, a cool record store in Industry City, Brooklyn, near the R train. It starts at 6:15pm. NEW YORK FRIENDS: I always bake treats for our shows. If you're coming, tell me what you'd like me to bake! I will bake it.

We are sorry to report that The Thing With Feathers is now on the endangered list.

this is wonderful. watched it three times already

Fixed it. www.mlb.com/news/mlb-cat...

Me sowing: This is really hard work. My back hurts. Me reaping: My back hurts even worse now. This was in no way worth it.

Did the Isley Brothers ever find out who lady was? Seems like they really wanted to know.

Just found this video I made in 2023 and I stand by it 100%. Sound up.

This is cool, but @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social threw me a Tyler Rogers-esque submarine slider with a SOFTBALL last night, so, who's really showing off here

Hey! Are you in Brooklyn next week? You should come out to HiFi Provisions -- a cool record store and cocktail bar in Industry City -- to see our band play with The Spent Priests. ALL AGES! Bring the kiddos! hifiprovisions.com/products/the...

Nothing better than waiting 5-10 days for a sinus infection to get bad enough that a doctor will prescribe antibiotics, then waiting 3-5 days for the antibiotics to start fighting the infection that has used all that time to conquer your entire head.

earnestness is punk rock. libraries are punk rock. cleaning up litter is punk rock. everything is punk rock except making loud fast music that annoys your neighbors

holy shit

It made perfect sense for the Twins to sell at the deadline; it was a mediocre roster below .500, and in the process they shed a big contract that made no sense for them. But teams that tank the season at the deadline like that shouldn't be allowed to charge admission to their remaining home games.

Writing up the Alex Call trade and listening to "Do You Want To" by Franz Ferdinand. Thanks @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social

they call them "the twins" in honor of the only two people on the roster

Oh, it matters.

This trade deadline is insane