From what I can tell, there have been four players who have been suspended for domestic violence to play in an MLB game since 2024. All four have been employed by the Pittsburgh Pirates during that timeframe.

this is a discarded plot device from an austin powers movie

marcell ozuna AND mike clevinger, in case you felt just too much relief from never having to talk about or think about ji-hwan bae again

noooooooooooooooooooooo doubt about it

holy shit

imagine being the boozer twin that DIDN'T get the duke basketball name

MLB TV will remain $150 a season but look at this BS they’re trying to pull. You cannot “buy” MLB TV without buying ESPN Unlimited, but they give you a one month free trial, and then the hope is you forget to cancel since you don’t need ESPN to have MLB TV, only to initially purchase.

[walking past PNC Park today] i felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

gmail wants to know if i want to use AI to summarize an e-mail that reads, in full, "what time would you like me to pick you up to go to [my brother's house] for the super bowl on sunday?"

really enjoy that jurassic park commercial just from the perspective of someone determining that the point of jurassic park was, "if we had better IT, we could have had jurassic park"

at one point today i stared at my computer screen for nearly a minute thinking about how i could not remember what sweater i had on and mentally reviewing all of my sweaters to determine what it could possibly be instead of ... looking down.

huh

we've released our Top 101 Prospect List over at @baseballprospectus.com today. It's free to read with a basic subscription (no $$ required)

stick to sports was never about sports

this title is raising concern questions about the staff's familiarity with north carolina geography

*FIFTY-THREE* doubles in 2006; 6 homers. That was 20 years ago; that distribution of XBH is now utterly impossible.

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what i mean by this is that given what the pirates have done this winter, i'm not sure that the idea that they matched the reds offer for suarez and were willing to go higher was an entry in the "we tried" olympics.

you can't make a guy take your money if he doesn't want it, but it's still your fault that happened

damn

after finishing triangle strategy i have moved on to tactics ogre: reborn in my quest to play all of the pixel tactical RPGs i already own before i play final fantasy tactics. tactics ogre is a WILD experience.

i've always been mixed on jim rutherford (especially living in north carolina for much of the canes' JR era) but it's refreshing to hear someone say, "yeah, i got real depressed in 2020 and 2021 and did some maybe dumb stuff, kinda wished i hadn't, but i did and now here we are"

oh man, rip @dhm.bsky.social. just terrible, gutting news.

as per that last repost about dragon age: one game design idea that fascinates me is the "bioware game" trope, where you get the illusion of choosing (light side of the force vs. dark side, paragon vs. renedage, red vs. blue), but it's clear the game itself *always* expects you to pick good.

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and i thought the bbwaa HOF vote could be petty

one thing about the AFC North is that the Steelers can go out and hire Literally Mike McCarthy and still be the second-best run organization in the entire division

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my point isn't that the pirates don't owe mccutchen anything, it's that he got three years to play himself beyond the point of productivity and climb franchise charts and at any point in those years he could've absolutely gotten the retirement tour and all the laurels that come with it, if he asked.

i'm sorry but the andrew mccutchen thing does nothing for me. he wanted to come to piratefest despite not being signed and there being a chance he'd play for someone else?

In terms of reputations, pretty impossible to have an easier Opposing QB Path to a Super Bowl title than Playoff Justin Herbert - Second Round CJ Stroud - Stiddy - Sam Darnold. Locking it in: Pats by 3, and everyone gets mad.

nothing makes me wince in pain more than a 37+ year old quarterback desperately trying to run for a first down

this game rules, it's a shame whoever wins it will lose to the patriots in a dumb boring game that will usher in another 18 years of patriot ascendancy

i'm sorry his name cannot be jake bobo

if they try like nine or ten more of these someone might make one

‪ i'm sorry but i'm not falling for, "young patriots QB plays like shit in the snow, if they win at least he will get crushed by [huge favorite from the NFC west]," a second time.

had to go into the lab today to keep some things going to have class on thursday, had some down time so i wandered around campus with my camera. not gonna lie, feel like i might have the ultimate new wilmington picture here.

welcome to the Virginia McCaskey Era of Steeler football

legitimately the only thing about THE STEELER WAY that was tangibly real was hiring a promising young coach and giving him resources to do his job and backing him up early on when necessary. how do you fuck that up this badly?

if the pirates did something like this i would find it so stupid that it would surprise me, which is not actually something that occurs all that often.

kinda excited to see how penn state fans react to this

I just thought everyone should see this

this (like, not just this specific event but THIS [gesturing]) might legitimately be an existential crisis for major league baseball.

Also keep in mind all the revenue sharing that came from luxury tax that the Pirates and the A's got is now gone