We need more public outrage for what MLB did to the scoreboard page on its app update.

my tolerance for conspiratorial thinking begins and ends with knowing that baseball players all collaborated to lie about their official heights

Honestly even with the warning this was a lot worse than I anticipated

to all fellow non-Jewish folks: please listen to this. we all can do better, and continue to do better, about educating ourselves and fighting antisemitism. (pls read the whole thread from Sarah)

I’m reading THE NEW YORK GAME right now and it goes into detail on this if anyone is interested!

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

it's time to tap the sign again -- understanding the origins + history of classical antisemitism tropes means that you can be clear on what legitimate critiques of a state you might want to critique might be & what might be promulgating 2000 year-old scapegoating conspiracy theories

every team but them is experiencing a sort of cultural euphoria and they can’t because their interpretation of US culture depends on subordination of both other people and certain parts of themselves

a lot of the interviews with various us-born players playing on WBC teams for other countries include them learning about the language and culture etc. and I gotta say, like, it's an unvarnished good

that was a really good game of baseball

i hold very few illusions about ballplayer political views but jfc this team is like a mall cop and an extended cab pickup that's never hauled anything had a noxious child

i am sure team new jersey (italia) also has rancid political views but they are not making it their brand the same way that the us team has

Yeah I was rooting for Italy in this one except OBVIOUSLY for Matilda’s dad.

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

more home run cellies should involve kissing

This is outstanding journalism

The Randy Arozarena-Cal Raleigh Conflict, As Told by Jane Austen

If Josh Shapiro called all the games I would watch the Phillies more; that was great.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

I love this book so much! Go get it!!

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

what does he think they are sacrificing

hockey's borderline fetishization of injury and its overall labor weakness are direct causative agents in many of the cultural problems in the sport, in this essay I will— bsky.app/profile/nico...

also lol I saw someone go "baseball players will miss several weeks for a blister by lindsey vonn is skiing on a busted ACL" and I'm like, that's because she (like many olympians and female athletes generally) does not have labor protections, stop valorizing injury, start agitating for rest

An unstated part of this article: There is an enormously long history of calling Jewish athletes in particular soft. They did it to Koufax, they did it to Hank Greenberg. 1/

emotionally, I needed sports messiness today, so thank u sports

We can have a lot of feelings about this but what we're NOT gonna do is imply that Jason Brown shouldn't have been at the last Olympics, thank you.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

not the important story here but it is pretty crazy scott boras woke up this morning signing cody bellinger to the yankees for $160 million and is now ending his day as the first-call media coordinator for a potential multinational incident

Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee, who was detained at LAX, has now been released.

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

hey if you're wondering "has a baseball website covered whatever the fuck Miller is talking about, for some reason and done it more accurately than he is?" the answer is absolutely, yes: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

If you like the hockey boys kissing show, you’ll love the good Jewish baseball boys kissing book.

Hello, Breakout Year is in the New York Times as a book for sad Mariners fans (it's also for sad Jays fans, sad Tigers fans, sad...etc.) Big thank yous to @oliviawaite.com for the lovely write up!!!

There’s a baby blanket made by me and a lot of other great items in this year’s Bundled Up on Broad fundraiser auction! Shares appreciated! www.32auctions.com/organization...

The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

buy a baseball fan a subscription to @baseballprospectus.com why don't ya

If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at [email protected] to let me know!

I just glanced up at the LIDOM game on my TV, saw a barely buttoned jersey in the batter's box, and said "What does this guy think he is, a Phillie?" It was Johan Rojas.

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

I was looking up the origin of “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory” and lmao welp.

Two more of my favorite blankets (how to choooose???) Mermaid blanket (by @katelinnea.bsky.social) on the left (machine washable!!): www.32auctions.com/organization... Malachite blanket on the right (the colors are SO nice in person): www.32auctions.com/organization...

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

This series is fun and also now that I think about it I DID pull out my Switch for the first time in a while around the time I was watching a bunch of Mariners postseason baseball…

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian (2024)

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

If you enjoyed, for lack of a better word, baseball bluesky tonight stick around for WBC in the spring