opener poses a dangerous thought experiment: what if archy marshall was from central ohio

⚠️ warning: ohio posting ⚠️ i'm seeing a cool zoomer shoegaze band in the basement of a donatos rn

"An astonishing 95 percent of the 7,130 eligible MLB players were remembered at least once. Judging by bWAR accumulated in the 2000s, the most productive MLB player who went unremembered was Reese Olson, who has 4.4 bWAR at time of writing."

as good as it gets: wipers.bandcamp.com/track/doom-t...

The official charity of the Savannah Bananas has a hard time explaining how its money is spent: defector.com/the-official...

classic kelsey blog: defector.com/only-you-can...

alternately tearing and cracking up at these blurbs

happy fifth birthday to Defector! the best job I've ever had, the best people I know defector.com/five-years-o...

CITY ON FIRE (1987): chow yun-fat and danny lee really had that shit on

I am really proud of the work we do and I think this is a great deal

One thing I appreciate about Defector is how consistently its writers absolutely nail the tension between writing with levity and with real moral seriousness, how many of them can work in both registers (often in the same piece!). Can't recommend it enough, this is a great time to get on board.

that Alcaraz fake-dropshot, slice drive is so potent in this matchup wrote about it in CHANGEOVER www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

have some self-respect! defector.com/setting-asid...

it's looking like One Of Those Days at defector: an omnivorous mix of posts, each one vital. if you've been on the fence about a subscription, check out the homepage today. ask and i'll send you a gift link to something you want to read. sale ends very soon.

legit thank you for the service journalism @defector.com (gift link) defector.com/how-the-fuck...

NEIL WALKER: my mom's dad could be hard to understand (son of immigrants, thick pittsburgh accent, increasingly hard of hearing) but crystal clear that he thought neil walker was actually ass + unduly boosted by propagandizing local media. beautiful, wrong opinion i think about all the time.

mlb teams should employ a bench coach who specializes in hollering to argue calls and protect the actual manager, who is in theory a more valuable tactical and emotional leader, from getting tossed

this feels good

I don't really follow baseball, so I'm just using this to play tic-tac-toe with players whose names start with 'X' and 'O'

remembering fondly when "throw fastballs inside" briefly made the pirates the best pitching dev group in mlb 😔

shout out to these guys

really great defector.com/butlerian-ji...

this was great; strong turnout at my favorite record store. i'm excited to listen to this stuff and read chris's book!

10:05 p.m. skubal start in sacramento, most obvious walk-off loss of all time incoming tn 😔

Curt Leskanic Pitcher Debut: 1993 - Retired: 2004 COL - KCR - MIL - BOS

Four of my favorite nouns in one blog: Hockey, Bruce Bennett, birds, and of course @ddavisla.bsky.social. defector.com/after-50-yea...

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

in a similar story, @albertburneko.bsky.social is too good:

(aside from the one I co-founded and co-own) FanGraphs is probably my favorite website. I highly recommend a membership. In general, it’s nice to pay for writing you like!

wrote about the 2020s country music boom over at defector, which i think is happening because of the way that tiktok's fyp curation foregrounds regional, bottom-up culture more than the follow-based feeds of the 2010s did

this felt like one of the most vulnerable things I've written, and I'm so grateful for the reaction to it defector.com/taylor-swift...

I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why

best thing i've heard in a while, answers the question "what if beach house c. 2009 made a batida track?" principediscos.bandcamp.com/track/ultra

Even if you're a casual baseball fan interested in sabermetrics, this is just a great place to meet people (see this piece in Defector). We're all getting together at Maria's Community Bar on 8/23 after the first day of talks, and it will be a blast. See you there! defector.com/looking-for-...

metaphor collapse

does anyone have anything they want to tell us 😳 before the defector survey closes tomorrow 🙈😩

Yup, all of @redford.bsky.social's pieces on @defector.com for the Tour have been top notch. This one from the other day, especially so.

for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography

Big announcement! We've got TWO new podcast collabs between Radiotopia and @defector.com, hosted by @redford.bsky.social and me! defector.com/try-hard-onl...

if y'all appreciate that I asked the real questions at this presser, here's an investigative feature I did on a PE firm backed group buying up Minor League Baseball bsky.app/profile/jenr...

all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...

“[Matter News] tackles complex community challenges ... through deeply reported, narrative-rich multimedia that elevates marginalized voices.” tbh this means as much to me as any accolade considering the amount of work I've poured into this thing over three years. matternews.org/community/ma...

reading the NYT’s triple-bylined disgrace of a story about Zohran Mamdani’s college application and this suddenly feels worth reupping defector.com/toward-a-the...

If I worked at NYT I would be embarrassed every day

i'll be reading and analyzing all of these responses! i'd love to present your ideas to the rest of the staff. we're especially interested in hearing: 1. about how and where you find stuff to read online; & 2. from people who don't (yet!) subscribe to the site.

this is so smart and focused it almost leaves me breathless defector.com/how-to-watch...