Active players who participated in a College World Series final featuring South Carolina: Christian Walker, Gerrit Cole, Anthony DeSclafani, Rob Refsnyder. (Jordan Montgomery was an unused substitute)

I was pretty proud of Metsodus but lmk if Metxit would've been better

My Jeff McNeil trade reaction is going up shortly but I want to share a fun fact: In the past 30 days (notably outside the baseball season) the Mets have had four different active leaders in games played.

After 20 years of layoffs, incompetent busybody ownership, right-wing regulatory capture, & execs who try to be on-air talent, there are a couple upsides. 1) Everyone left in reporting is a hardcore true believer and 2) we know exactly what it looks like when journalists don't respect their bosses

If he blows a save, talk radio is going to be absolutely brutal. All the WIP callers are gonna hop on Pop

I'm skeptical that this show will do much to move the needle on homophobia in hockey. But it's hard to overstate its impact on Wolf Parade fans whose spouses 1) Absolutely hate Wolf Parade and 2) Binged all of Heated Rivalry over the weekend

I can't wait to recreate the meme in reverse. every naval engagement from 2043 onwards gonna be like The USS Sword Of The God-Emperor vs. fifteen identical copies of the PLAN '我们昨天建造了它' supplied by a ship that does nothing but make hot pot for the other ships

The winner of the Notre Dame-BYU series is whoever goes to Baylor while the game's on and does man-on-the-street interviews asking which of the two schools (or neither, or both) is actually Christian

I will never advocate for violnce but at the same time, folks have clearly forgotten and need to start realizing that you can't just walk up to anybody and say anything crazy like that

Any discipline for a player going after a fan in the stands should come with a "the bastard had it coming" mitigation clause

Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty Bitty Contact Rate: White Sox Sign Murakami blogs.fangraphs.com/phenomenal-c...

personally I think Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman should get to yell at Bari Weiss until this whole thing gets sorted

Marine mammals, Anthony Joshua beating the shit out of Jake Paul, making fun of yell leaders, and cricket players getting hit in the nuts. That's what the algo provides

A little over 24 hours after Miami beat A&M, my Insta reels feed is almost entirely videos of yell leaders with comments about how much they look like dumbasses

Make the case that I should vote for the crypto shill in my deep blue district, I'll wait.

I'm not gonna rip the White Sox for signing a big free agent who has absolute monster power and is only 25. But there's a real--perhaps better-than-even-- chance his hit tool keeps him from even being a major league-quality hitter

I don't think I've had a conscious thought inside a supermarket since before COVID. It's just all autopilot. And I think that's how I ended up with enough cabbage to make almost five pounds of sauerkraut

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

I'm not gonna rip the White Sox for signing a big free agent who has absolute monster power and is only 25. But there's a real--perhaps better-than-even-- chance his hit tool keeps him from even being a major league-quality hitter

Go on a walk uphill over open ground straight into a fortified position with 15,000 of your buddies

In our Diamond Mind league, @shaker.bsky.social and I just pulled off a three team trade involving eight players, four draft picks and a keeper spot, so don't tell me the stove isn't hot enough

Looks like I stumbled into an orthodox opinion

Jared Allen annihilated them www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdR...

The Kelces answered a similar question and decided pretty quickly that an NFL line could get a normie a yard per carry. But then they followed the thought experiment to its next step, which involved the phrase "when you meet Derwin James"

the zoom out was 🤌

Javon Kinlaw ejected! Go Cocks!

Jalen Hurts has figured out how to throw a football, accurately somehow, with what looked to me like forkball spin

Georgian-era field artillery pieces are a type of bird, go birds

Some of us are doing the 3 p.m. Arsenal/5 p.m. Eagles back-to-back stint. They're calling it the First World Problems Power Hour

A tailgating pied-a-terre. Except it's up high so it's more of a pied-en-ciel

I understand that the joke is it looks like someone who'd never left the Wanamaker Building decorated this using only what they learned about Versailles by reading The Great Gatsby, but what on Earth is the point of a $7 million, 5,000 square foot penthouse apartment in Ann Arbor?

Finally watched Sinners, and I'm dying to ask Ryan Coogler a million questions about the origins of rock and roll

Today in I Will Watch Any Fuckin Sports, I find my mental health completely dependent on the state of Beau Greaves' throwing arm

Baseball Bluesky: Is Shane Baz actually good? Are the Orioles meaningfully better than they were six months ago? What are the Rays thinking? Can the Pirates find pitching? Me, biting into a whole tomato the sizzle of a softball: Caden Bodine is from Haddon Heights, you know

The Shane Baz trade is fascinating, because it features multiple people that you would just naturally assume are from Australia that are not.

Shaw might one day be the best Maryland player, but at this moment he has a career .295 OBP, and the highlight of his lone season in the majors was leaving the team during a pennant race to go to a white nationalist rally. He's got some ground to make up.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are in talks to acquire the best player to come out of the University of Maryland in the past 80 years. It would've been cheaper just to call @alexkirshner.com and ask why he's mad at them

This holiday season, we salute all Abreu-Hamels voters

I'm also personally indebted to Strahm for giving me one of the better quotes I've had from an athlete in the past several years

They freed up $7.5 million, but now they have a hole to fill in the bullpen, and pitchers as good as Strahm cost more than $7.5 million

Ineos Grenadiers has a new uniform out, and the shorts are (almost) white. I wrote about cycling's great sartorial taboo, menstruation in women's sports, and the Sex Pirate from Game of Thrones, for about 2,200 words in total

This is at the core of my longstanding (and apparently highly controversial) "TSA Pre-Check Is Evil" take

While perusing historical WBC rosters, I was disappointed but not surprised to learn that only four players born in New Jersey have ever suited up for Team USA. It was, however, shocking that Italy and Israel have only fielded two New Jerseyans apiece.

We'll see who actually stays on the roster but the current Team USA WBC commits include the two best healthy American starters (and there's a pretty good argument they've got the best three), plus the best American reliever. What a journey from Kelly, Lynn, Pray for Roof Malfunction

Guess I'll post this again

Surprising dearth of victory laps for the Trump ruling on children's gender affirming care from the mock liberal transphobia brigade. Isn't this what they wanted?

I'm getting a "Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." tattoo this weekend

I am so excited to learn what new and interesting colors he's capable of turning on the sideline