One of our editors at SABR just pointed out we ought to retire the phrase “men in blue” now that women umpires are (finally!) coming to the major leagues. I added: the phrase is also anachronistic because the umpires so rarely wear blue!

Okay, it's not just writers getting inundated by AI-generated fake emails offering services. Check this one out I just got at my SABR email from a supposed HVAC service company offering to check out the systems at Shibe Park. (The last game at Shibe was in 1970 and the park was demolished in 1976.)

No cheating…repost with your most recent picture of your pet

Okay, it's not just writers getting inundated by AI-generated fake emails offering services. Check this one out I just got at my SABR email from a supposed HVAC service company offering to check out the systems at Shibe Park. (The last game at Shibe was in 1970 and the park was demolished in 1976.)

Unfortunately a ton of the 24 hour ones cut back in 2020 so very few are real 24 diners anymore. Some only on weekends. And so many diners are sitting on prime real estate, can’t blame em for cashing out. Every time I come back to NJ another diner I ate in as a kid is now a CVS.

From the Sox: The Red Sox have moved the start time of their game tomorrow, Sunday, April 19, against the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park from 1:35 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. The change was made in consultation with MLB due to a forecast for an extended period of rain from mid-day into the afternoon.

Shohei Ohtani meets and signs a ball for 100-year-old Momoyo Kelly, a Japanese woman who survived the bombing of Nagasaki

lol, the Bananas sideline reporter interviewing their other sideline reporter about his in-game performance after the game 😄

I hope the person who came up with this pun was rewarded with another week of vacation, at the very least.

Something went seriously wrong with the creation of this PDF...?! The names of the editors used to be right underneath the title. WTF...

One of our editors at SABR just pointed out we ought to retire the phrase “men in blue” now that women umpires are (finally!) coming to the major leagues. I added: the phrase is also anachronistic because the umpires so rarely wear blue!

Whaaaat

A chorus of "I Wanna Be Sedated" for tonight's pregame ceremony at Fenway commemorating Pharmacists Appreciation Night.

Could not ask for more beautiful weather !

I’m at Yankee Stadium tonight. It’s hockey jersey night. I tried to leave Boston at 11:30 this morning to get here in time to snag one but traffic all day long meant I didn’t get in line until the gate was already open and there was no way 😅

Still the absolute greatest baseball-related TV commercial ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpWU...

ALT HEADLINE: Blue Jays' revival of retired mascot "BJ Birdy" not going down well with its creator. ALT ALT HEADLINE: Blue Jays blow revival of retired mascot, BJ Birdy. ALT ALT ALT HEADLINE: BJ Birdy returns to Dome, creator and team may head to court. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Are you into making "all time best" lists? You should be a SABR member. Especially now that we're picking the all time "eras" teams. Join by May 13 and you can vote, and get $15 off! sabr.org/community #baseball #baseballsky

The White Sox will be holding a Pope Hat giveaway. Wait, has @kenwhite.bsky.social seen this?

I’m so sorry to hear of the passing of Len Levin. When he fell and broke his hip a few weeks ago I feared it was the end. Len was one of the first people to welcome me to SABR 25 years ago and I’m not exaggerating when I say he copyedited 10,000 articles for SABR since then. sabr.org/latest/in-me...

Thanks to the Boston Globe for featuring Wednesday's conversation about WE SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO BASEBALL with @mikepetriello.bsky.social at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social. See you there! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/05/a...

How special was that once-in-a-lifetime performance from Jo Adell this Saturday?

I talked to three members of the UCLA team that won the title in 1978, and spoiler alert: those ladies are rad as heck.

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Well it was a very long day at the stadium but in the end it met my definition of a good game: the tying or winning run comes to the plate in the 8th or 9th. And much as I would’ve preferred a win, at 49 degrees and 9 hours here the only thing I didn’t want was extra innings 😅

lol they are playing “That’s Life” instead of Frank

And the winning run comes to the plate.

And the tying run comes to the plate.

"EXODUS: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE is an interactive exhibit that allows you to experience the story of Exodus like NEVER BEFORE because you NEVER PAID ATTENTION to all those seders your parents forced you to sit through." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exo...

It’s official. 5:10 first pitch for Yankees/Marlins

Ohhh? “Rain ending in 6 minutes”! #yankeestadium

Good thing umpire crews don’t time out like airline crews…

the Yankees' "remaining optimistic" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by their shirt

I know, it’s a hard cider. But it would be funny if the Sox had a section of seats for particularly angry fans.

Looks like "Analyzing Baseball Data with R" got a new edition right before the new year. Great book, strongly recommend.

That’s one way to do it.

Imagine you’re an enterprising woman attending tonight’s sold-out professional women’s hockey game at Madison Square Garden. You get the camera crew’s attention. When you’re put on the jumbotron you move your rally towel to reveal the words “FUCK ICE” emblazoned on your sweatshirt. You’re a hero

If Accuweather is to be believed, this rain will still be going at 5pm at Yankee Stadium.

Hi friends! Am I having a psychotic break or did former MLB pitcher Mike Maroth want to become a meteorologist and successfully convinced the Weather Channel to let him make a cameo?

Billy Joel’s “Miami 2017” is literally a dystopian story about the govt shutting down 1975 NYC bc it was deemed unsalvageable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_2...

We have reached the “longingly looking at other games in progress” portion of the rain delay

The Resurrection: The Angel Rolling Away the Stone from the Sepulchre, by William Blake, 1808, 📸 by Kayleigh K

Look at little Byron Buxton!!! Great stuff from @twinstv with Buxton reaching 10 years of service time 👏

It will surprise none of you that as we wait to find out if today’s game at Yankee Stadium will actually be played, I am reading a book. About book design. I figure some of my fellow comma jockeys will enjoy this:

It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tired of the old "elf on a shelf" nonsense? Canada GOTCHU.

It’s raining hard, here. I’m inside a bar inside the stadium with a basket of chicken wings I am just fine thanks

The Rural Town in the story is Duryea PA, longtime home of Topps www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

The fact that NONE of the reporting on Artemis II has mentioned and analyzed the Trump 1 space directives that are governing why and how Artemis is happening and to what purpose is an extraordinary #scicomm failure and a sign of how bad journalism about policy and science has gotten

Oh man, Kevin Sorbo is actually *dumb* dumb. He was born in 1958, he should actually be able to remember NYC's reputation for safety in the 1970s.