This is a really great piece of analysis.

the patent and trademark office keeps denying the name "Las Vegas Athletics" because "Athletics" is not descriptive enough and "Las Vegas athletics" could be used to describe anything in LV. www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/uspto-d...

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

there is a true nap and a false nap. the false nap is scheduled. a true nap must be taken when necessary. the false nap is timed. a true nap must be unfettered. the false nap's goal is to return to work. a true nap's goal is to play within the mind

I just made from scratch, hand-made pasta for the first time. It was so fun and easy. I don’t know why I never tried it before.

Well, Sue is on the clock now. www.instagram.com/whitesox/ree...

My wife got me a fancy panettone from Italy for Chanukah.

What a lovely, moving piece of writing.

I enjoy putting this together every year. Can you figure out big leaguers from old BA Prospect Reports? It starts easy and ramps up to quite difficult. www.baseballamerica.com/stories/can-...

My friend wrote this.

As always, Matt’s read of the situation is indispensable.

I wrote about Chris Martin, who has had a super interesting career and found an improbable way to become one of the most effective pitchers in the game.

If you love great baseball writing, please pre-order Mike’s book. I am so excited to read it.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

in your life, you might be tempted to fix your problem with former washington nationals. you must resist this urge at every turn.

If you happen to know Michael Keaton, please tell him there’s a way to know for sure whether the Pirates took a look.

An absolute Schwarbomb for @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social's We Tried Tracker

Zach is one of the best and The Bandwagon is a really fun way to keep up with the game. One time we were going to hang out, but then I had to cancel because I came down with stomach flu. That's a story (almost) about Zach and me.

BP is a machine that makes you think better about baseball, and if you read enough of @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com's work it'll give you persistent depressive disorder too. A bargain even at the new price, if you're a sports fan

We Tried Tracker Update: Modest Edition blogs.fangraphs.com/we-tried-tra...

Gonna start using this as a vicious burn.

cake had all these songs about cars but the cars didn't have any songs about cake

New category: "In on heavy."

This game rules, although the actually gameplay could not possibly look less like the picture on the cover.

Andrew Baggarly doing God's work here. Giants were involved.

Cleat cleaner now.

This is one of my favorites ever. What does it mean to have had at least preliminary interest? Scientists may never know.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

I have the best city council member.

Hey, I wrote this and I think it's pretty interesting.

Another day in the damn Jason Bourne Response Suite. I'm wearing a blue dress shirt and a headset and just absolutely getting reamed out by a veteran character actor re: him "needing eyes" or whatever. No sense of when or if we're ordering lunch. I tried to get a coffee and Joan Allen glared at me.

good bit from @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social's latest. You can read the full piece here: www.joesheehan.com/2025/11/joe-...

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

FanGraphs the only necessary thing on Cloudflare, just turn that part back on and leave the rest off

Further reminder that nominating your own work is not just allowed but encouraged. If you wrote something you’re proud of, make sure to nominate it!

It’s not even ten and I’ve already baked two successful batches of gluten-free gingerbread men using a recipe I came up with. Really feeling my oats (literally).

If the state of things has you down, I can't recommend these two songs highly enough. They're sharp, funny, sincere. They're true anthems. Adam gets this thunderous fuzzy guitar tone by means I will never fully understand. It's a thing of beauty.

Look, there’s nothing in the rules that has a dog can’t do three to five years for insurance fraud.

I don’t care if you can’t really sing. Just fucking make me feel something.

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, while strong, required no enunciation to prove it so. – Thomas Hardy

This is one came out really fun. Sound up:

I want it on the record that I have dibs on a song called “Payment for a Horse.” That’s mine. I called it.

all time banger

Seems like it’s time to repost this song about how the people in charge of the government would like nothing better than for you to starve to death.

Just one week until “Stay Woke” and “Anti-Antifa” are out. Here’s a clip of “Anti-Antifa” a quick ripper that doubles as a grammar lesson for those among us who are missing the point. Thank you to @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social for providing the guitar solo for this one. Out November 14th!

Jokes aside (and it is *extremely* difficult to put jokes aside), DePodesta's involvement with the DeShaun Watson trade is more gross than incompetent, and it's very incompetent. Sorry to the folks in Denver, you've already been through too much.

Listening to the Snocaps record and realizing that I kind of forgot about this song my friend Kat and I put out back in 2020. I still love it. therefurbishments.bandcamp.com/track/p-s-el...

I can't believe the Mets let Antoan Richardson get away.