First time to ever block a PR email from my work account, and it’s only because I would probably get in trouble if I replied with the verbiage I wanted to. Get blocked into the absolute deepest of hellspace with this garbage.

A skill that doesn't get talked about enough: hitting a deep enough fly ball to score the runner from third. Like, it's not even one of those "Seems simple until you try it" things. It seems really hard to do it consistently. And yet, big-leaguers do it. Regularly! It's remarkable to me.

As a former Rangers beat writer, it's a little jarring to be watching a Marlins game and see Tyler Phillips come on in relief of Pete Fairbanks

…all new information to me! (2/2)

I’m learning so much about the term “beaned up” tonight… (1/2)

It was a Team Italy thing during the WBC: it was actually Vinnie Pasquantino that coined the phrase, but Caglianone was on the team, so I think it still counts

Jac Caglianone appears to be beaned up

Cleaning out some old closets and lol

John Kruk in the booth just said he hadn't ever watched Saturday Night Live. Jason Benetti asked "weren't you in a skit at some point?" Kruk said he didn't think so. Not as far as he knew. Imagine Chris Farley played you in an SNL skit and you never even knew it!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kC9...

This solved it. Phone/iPad defaults to home broadcast, but was watching Padres broadcast on my TV

Image one: a screen grab from my phone, a faded Hyundai ad on the mound. Image two, same pitch: a photo of my TV where it appears the mound has been given a skin graft. No idea why

It’s not how I would have gone about it but I guess good on MLB for using Jackie Robinson Day to show us just how stupid the “I don’t see color” argument is.

Aaron Judge! Mike Trout!! This is the 4th game in which 2 multi-time MVPs (at the time of the game) hit multiple home runs each, joining:   June 21, 1956 Roy Campanella and Stan Musial July 3, 1962 Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle July 6, 1962 Maris and Mantle h/t @EliasSports

This Angels/Yankees game has been … I mean "good" is objectively the wrong word for a 10-10 slugfest, but also … home runs from Mike Trout and Aaron Judge, multiple comebacks, a game-tying homer in the ninth inning. It's good

Garrett Crochet has allowed 10 runs (so far) in under two innings. I don't know if he's tippin—  HR Garrett Crochet has allowed 11 runs (so far) in under two innings.. Holy moly

When nominative determinism comes up short.

I know nobody cares about position players pitching anymore but it’s Austin Hedges just so you’re aware

I stand by my initial statement that I like the new Royals City Connect jerseys, but I think these helmets look like a rodeo clown barrel.

As pointed out by more than one of you, there is exactly one man who could and would successfully pull this off repeatedly and it’s Zack Greinke.

Nobody is gonna do it but I do wonder if you could practice throwing an eephus pitch so high that it essentially landed on home plate from above, right where ABS is measured so you could challenge it and get a strike Also what would that ABS screen look like? Just a weird vertical stripe?

I need to know who is responsible for the thoroughly perplexing low-fi Iron Man ads during games on MLB.tv As is the case with ALL adds on the app, it's on extremely heavy rotation, but it's just like ... bad-gif-quality clips of scenes from the Marvel films??? And I can't tell what the point is???

This was my tone every time I had to drive across Nebraska to get from Omaha to Denver

lol konnor griffin

We’re back or whatever

Today’s Windup does not have any April Fool’s “jokes” in it, unless I made a factual error, in which case … [jazz hands]

Mike Estabrook is having a bad time in Seattle. Yankees are 4-for-4 on challenges, and it’s the top of the 4th inning.

Austin Bibens-Dirkx mentioned

I actually really like these Mariners uniforms but it seems like the helmet logos are just cheap stickers????

If I've researched this correctly, the last player to get four hits in his big league debut before Kevin McGonigle today was J.P. Arencibia (TOR, 2010). The last one to do it on Opening Day? Delino DeShields (the elder one) in 1990 with the Expos.

Skenes’ career before today: TWO SEASONS with a sub-2 ERA … After today, his career ERA is 2.10

Pirates should have known better than to ask Paul Skenes to do something he’s never done before (pitch with a lead)

I have decided that tonight — while canon — was essentially the spoken word track before the first song of the album. It’s on the CD but unless there’s a good reason to revisit, you’re skipping it. Let’s get to the songs, pal.

Aaron Judge on pace for 648 strikeouts, which would be a new record

I know how much Netflix charges for a monthly subscription, I know they can afford bigger letters on the scorebug than that.

Netflix: "Sure, but hear me out: what if we made the intro more like professional wrestling?"

Happy Opening Day. Yeah, even now. Especially now. www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

Ahh yes that thing that everyone says: “Tune in for first pitch at 7:05 pm GMT-5!”

Height: wrong (5-9) Weight: wrong (168) Age: wrong (29) Birthplace: wrong (Czech Republic) Jersey number: wrong (35) Face: wrong Glasses: wrong Glove: wrong Name: technically wrong (Ondřej, diacritic over r)

Cmon MLB The Show, can we not at least get this guy a beard? This is basically WBC royalty here

Congressman Marc Veasey, who represents parts of Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington, says he's a lifelong fan of the Rangers. But Veasey told me he'll never go to a game while the statue stands.

The NAACP told me the Rangers didn't discuss the segregationist statue until Arlington's mayor got involved. Arlington's mayor told me the Rangers thought the statue was cool because the mayor of Dallas is Black. Dallas mayor denied speaking to the Rangers. www.readeyeblack.com/p/reviving-t...

I went deep on "One Riot, One Ranger," by learning about the Texas Rangers' segregationist statue, probing the the city government and commissioner's office who made it possible, and speaking to the Rev. Floyd Moody, the civil rights activist who never made it to class. issa new [eyeblack]

Really appreciate my pals / coworkers filling in for me while I take a little more recovery time. Here’s our AL East preview, from folks who know it better than me. www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

Everyone complaining about this is missing the point. Yes, baseball has a lot of money, but what if they could have more money while chipping away at the foundation of how the money was made in the first place? That's clearly better (more money).

This has been about as good a final as we could ask for. Tied going into the ninth inning, the drama is thick, the tensions are high, the nerves are jumpy. Sports are just so perfect sometimes.

I don't know about you, but for ME?!?! I love to see guys hit a forever-memorable home run and then celebrate by looking like they are absolutely furious and annoyed that such a good thing just happened. It fits into the one allowed emotion (anger) that we men are allowed to have.

Can you imagine if Wilyer Abreu’s homer landed right at the base of this? THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

Is the WBC a false flag to make sure we embrace ABS in 2026? My column: