Welcome back, baseball! I missed you.

Goddammit. Dan McQuade? Rest in peace, my Philly brother.

A reminder that you don’t have to call them “false claims.” You can (and should) call them “lies.”

Because the world needed another opinion on the end of the Eagles' season.

When do pitchers and catchers report?

I forgot my briefcase, in case you're wondering how my reentry is going. Best of luck with yours!

For 2026, I resolve to continue resisting. I love my country and refuse to cede it to intolerant, small-hearted goons.

Paging Michael Lewis …

Alright, NYT Games, let’s do this.

Y’all. If you donate blood now, the @americanredcross.bsky.social will give you a pair of socks!

Okay, seriously, how is today the final day of the fall semester?

The canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.

It's December 1, which means it's time for the incomparable Christmas Lounge on the great @somafm.com.

Buy books here. 👇🏻

As the great Mike Schmidt once said, only in Philadelphia can players experience the joy of victory and the agony of reading about it in the next day's papers.

@fetterman.senate.gov, please tell your office to expect an angry phone call this afternoon. I know it won't do a damned thing, but maybe it'll make me feel a bit better. Who knows, maybe I'll ring @schumer.senate.gov, too.

Just finished listening to the audio version of this book, and it is delightful. Yes, it's an ode to letter writing and its various components and accoutrements -- fountain pens, stamps, envelopes, postcards, typewriters, paper, wax seals, and so on -- but it's also so much more. Highly recommended.

Oh, this is an easy one. NO, YOU MORONS, THEY DID NOT. Lazy, misogynistic tropes passing as hot takes, though? Lots more ruinous, to the workplace and everywhere else.

Can we have the mid-terms, like, tomorrow? Asking for a country.

Happy Public Radio Music Day! Celebrate by tuning in to @wxpnfm.bsky.social, the best damned music station in the country.

No kings, y’all. #NoKings

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, showing up for #NoKings.

Not that anyone asked, but "The Life of a Showgirl" holds up quite well on second listen.

If my math is correct, Turner, Schwarber, and Harp are 2-for-21 in this series.

More like Dead October, amirite?

Awfully kind of the Phillies to all but ensure that the Dodgers will clinch the NLDS in Chavez Ravine, in front of their home crowd.

So, yep, I did indeed listen to "The Life of a Showgirl" as I got my workday underway. And I liked it. Don't @ me.

Happy Red October to all who celebrate. #RingTheBell #GoPhils

GO. BIRDS.

Make a band singular: One Maniac

Enough with the hagiography already.

Phillies taking care of business.

I'm a little more than halfway through Sarah Wynn-Williams's aptly titled "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," and I'm starting to think that David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin were too easy on Zuck.

It's a love story, baby, just say "yes."

I just called my senators and congresswoman to share how harmful this would be and to ask that they oppose it vociferously and often. You should do the same. Shame on the Republican Party for enabling preventable mass sickness and death.

Bicycles with motors are, by definition, motorcycles. And they do not belong on biking/hiking trails.

Over the last three days, I have learned that dropping off your second child at college is just as exhilarating, excruciating, exciting, and stone-cold heartbreaking as dropping off your first child. Big hugs to all family members going through it themselves this August.

I discovered @wxpnfm.bsky.social when I got my first office job. It's been so fun hearing @kristenkurtis.bsky.social's picks for this week's #TBTXPN theme: "the tracks that shaped our sound, built our community, and became part of our DNA." Can't wait for the rest of the day!

C’mon, @apnews.com. He in no way “sees [this] as ‘pretty boring.’” He only *says* that. Every indication is that he *sees* it as scary and damaging as hell.

Anyone who has been bullied knows that appeasing the bully doesn’t stop the bullying.

I just called my reps about DoE illegally holding onto billions of dollars in K-12 funding that Congress ALREADY APPROVED. I used @5calls.org. You should too: 5calls.org

The mighty @wxpnfm.bsky.social is playing a full day of yacht rock for #TBTXPN, and I am working remotely, so I can turn it up as loud as I want. Sail on, friends, and stay smooth.

Hypothesis: For every sector and industry, there is a group of 20 to 30 ostensibly employed people whose sole duties seem to comprise appearing on each other's podcasts and traveling the country to present at conferences.

An in-person Schwarbomb AND an in-person Bryce Bomb? Please and thank you.

Thank YOU, @helenubinas.bsky.social, for comforting Philly's afflicted, afflicting Philly's comfortable, and, always, speaking truth to power. This city we love is better for your writing about it.

I can’t bring myself to read Old Man Brooks’s screed in today’s NYT about the supposed dearth of great novels. If you can’t find outstanding contemporary fiction to read, you just aren’t looking hard enough. Do better, Boomer. Do better, @nytimes.com.

In S4 E9 of “The Bear,” they dropped in Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s “The Show Goes On,” and, dear reader, I was shook.

Dear American media: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That's really all there is to it. If you're unable or unwilling to do that, find something else to do. Sincerely, The portion of the American public that is gravely concerned about what is happening to the country we love

Why, oh why, does no one EVER think the leopard will eat *their* face?

Yeah, I was among those who received the laudatory email from SSA early this morning. Yeah, I among those who are furious about the legislation and about this shitty propaganda the government thinks is going to change my mind. (Spoiler alert: It won't.)