The Baseball Project remembered the following guys (and many more) at White Eagle Hall: Ted Fuckin’ Williams, Steve Sax, Lenny Dykstra, Mackey Sasser, Mark Fidrych, Harvey Haddix, and Hank Aaron, not to mention the infamous Disco Demolition

Lenny Kaye joining the Minus 5, opening for Baseball Project

Gonna have to update those numbers.

Downright giddy about finally getting to see the Baseball Project tonight. Travel and COVID scrubbed 3 (?) previous chances

Or worry about playoff tiebreaker rules

Any idea of the time? Just gotta figure out whether to plan for my FanGraphs chat that day

Jacob Young, holy shit. That wasn’t even his best catch of the day??

Dear @schumer.senate.gov : Go fuck your craven careerist self and resign. Unacceptable collaboration with an undemocratic regime by failing to use all the tools in your toolbox to uphold the Constitution. At least STFU and stop torturing us with your drivel. —A constituent and political scientist

Will Klein??

30 years in New York City, and just today I was able to buy a can of one of my all-time favorite beers here. Til now, other than on tap at the late, great Pacific Standard, the only ones I had here, I brought back from western travel. Damn, I miss Pacific Standard.

Imagine trading Mookie Betts

oof

Tigers were 15.5 ahead of Guardians on July 8, but it was still 9.5 last Wednesday with 18 to play! Would be even worse than the 2007 Mets-Phillies 7-with-17-left collapse/comeback.

José Ramírez becomes this season's third 30-homer, 30-steal player and just the 5th to go 30-30 at least 3 times, joining Bobby and Barry Bonds (5x each), Alfonso Soriano (4x), and Howard Johnson (3x). If Corbin Carroll gets 1 SB and Pete Crow-Armstrong 1 HR, the 5 30-30 players would be a record

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Again Bouie from the top rope

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, or Willie Nelson, most likely

On the career and pending departure of Clayton Kershaw, perhaps the best pitcher of his generation — but one who has made it harder to fully embrace the entirety of his legacy. Link in comments.

Doug Rau Terry Forster Lance Rautzhan Kershaw

Hung-Chi Kuo Paco Rodriguez Scott Elbert Clayton Kershaw

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

This may be the best example of recency bias ever

I had to temporarily unlock my dormant account on the bird site to save the little video clip of Vin Scully meeting the 19-year-old Kershaw's curveball for the first time in March 2008, and bestowing a nickname for the ages: "Public Enemy Number One"

LOL. That's the first homer Kershaw has allowed since the Padres' Ramon Laureano got to him on 8/15

the Kershaw start is on Apple TV? Yeeeesh.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. becomes the second player to reach 30 homers and 30 steals this season, after Juan Soto. Wrote about the players in pursuit of this pair of milestones earlier this month blogs.fangraphs.com/juan-soto-le... Here's how things look right now

On the career and pending departure of Clayton Kershaw, perhaps the best pitcher of his generation — but one who has made it harder to fully embrace the entirety of his legacy. Link in comments.

the biggest fucking snowflake in the history of snow. the pissiest pissbaby who ever pissed.

New @fangraphs.com: on the career and pending departure of perhaps the best pitcher of his generation — but one who has made it harder to fully embrace the entirety of his legacy

and here's more on Finck, from Kliph Nesteroff's book "Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars" bsky.app/profile/sean...

Since multiple people asked about the sourcing on that Goebbels headline I shared via Sean the other day…

So much gratitude to @fangraphs.com and @jayjaffe.bsky.social for actually acknowledging Kershaw's homophobia alongside his pitching greatness. All the hagiography from most of the baseball media has made me a little sick this week.

Even one of the most craven and droolingly idiotic senators sees that the FCC’s threat toward ABC regarding Kimmel is awful. Any Dem not speaking out on this is by definition worse than Ted Cruz at something, and I can’t imagine much that could be more humiliating

New @fangraphs.com: on the career and pending departure of perhaps the best pitcher of his generation — but one who has made it harder to fully embrace the entirety of his legacy

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

The headshot is sending me. She's the Joan Didion of soliciting dick pics from people who want to outlaw rabies shots

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

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Mickey Mouse bullshit acquiesnce to facism.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

I want to throw up

new @fangraphs.com: both the Astros' Yordan Alvarez and the Blue Jays' Bo Bichette are battling injuries and the calendar

new @fangraphs.com: filling the Team Entropy-shaped hole in my soul with a look at the battles for playoff seeding and the potential for tiebreakers, which alas are now decided by math instead of play-ins.

every motherfucking Democrat caved to this bullshit. JFC

Analysis | To get himself back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel must call for the execution of homeless people.

new @fangraphs.com: both the Astros' Yordan Alvarez and the Blue Jays' Bo Bichette are battling injuries and the calendar