This is a penny.

Jon Weisman started a blog called Dodger Thoughts

Sometimes I think about how Pete Townshend wrote a song where he rhymed “in memories” with “Dom DeLuise.”

This amazing book, the latest by @lizstrout.bsky.social, made me cry.

Done.

People talk about what wasn't on their bingo card, but I'd love to hear what actually is on it.

What's the best book on the 1908 baseball season?

When I got my first full-time job as a sportswriter in 1989, my first interview and article was a feature on a 17-year-old shooting guard from Kennedy High School in Granada Hills named Garret Anderson. I'm absolutely stunned that he could be gone so young, and so sorry for his loved ones.

Although I gather that a 1 cm logo does the trick for some, I feel that there have to be better ways for the multitudes to identify which teams drafted these players.

The original Kids from Kars4Kids are now old enough to have Kars4Kids.

Hall of Famers Johnny Bench (age 18) and Satchel Paige (age 59) both played for the 1966 Peninsula Grays of the Class-A Carolina League.

Happy 17776 Day, we're all going to die today instead of live forever, but I guess we should have expected that. www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

Be serious …

While this might be the worst subtweet in history, I think I've just seen the worst headline in history.

Today marks the Dodgers' first 13-6 victory since May 6, 2005 (Hee-Seop Choi homered twice) and second 13-6 win since doing so twice in 1962. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

Why don’t they ever just shoot out the tires of the getaway car?

Official Opening Day for the Dodgers was yesterday, but Real Opening Day for the Dodgers is when their new season page on @baseball-reference.com launches. www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/20...

Today is the day we fondly remember the gem that was NBC’s Bent: March 21, 2012-April 4, 2012. Six episodes, 15 days of glory.

When I got in my car, there was 2:40 remaining in the UCLA game. When I got to my destination 27 minutes later, there was 0:02 left in the UCLA game.

Try to process this, since I certainly can't. Youngest Master Weisman is 18 years old today.

Little-known fact: The word "Fernandomania" first appeared in print atop Scott Ostler's column for the Los Angeles Times on April 27, 1981.

Time to wrap up a busy Sunday with some Dark Winds.

The starting five for the Lakers scored 137 points Thursday, the most by starters in a 48-minute game in NBA history. www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/most...

I’m here for the fifth tiebreaker.

If he weren't already a Hall of Famer, Albert Pujols would clinch his candidacy now by using a Bic 4-color pen in the dugout.

Shoot. This is too young. So sorry for her friends and family. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

If you hit a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give your team a 10-run lead and trigger the mercy rule, is it a walk-off?

There has never been a game where the managers have a combined 1,100+ MLB homers, as there is in Andruw Jones' Netherlands vs. Albert Pujols' Dominican Republic today.

Team USA pitching: 18 innings, one walk, 33 strikeouts.

Have a day, WBC …

Wow, that Japan-Korea game.

Team USA has walked 17 times tonight. In the Major Leagues, only six teams have ever walked 17 times in a nine-inning game, and only one since 1949. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

This takes me back.

On a scale of one to 10, 10 being the most intense, how hard do you work to get every last bit out of the toothpaste tube?

Just ordered 30 Double-Doubles to go for Youngest Master Weisman’s baseball team.

I brought up Debi Thomas today, and several sports-savvy people had never heard of her. It makes me think that figure skating broadcasts over the years have not done nearly enough to keep her importance alive.

I'm reading Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, and I feel like I might as well be reading James Joyce. It's impressive as hell but exhausting, and I feel like I'm understanding like a third of it.

Turn signals are the easiest things in the world to use.

Alpine skiing coverage at the Olympics is the best it has ever been, but the Holy Grail that hasn't been achieved is illustrating how steep the courses are.

Which defensive player should it be?

If the Super Bowl MVP isn’t a defensive player, something will have gone horribly wrong.

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

What has happened at the Washington Post today is grotesque. It's demented. I want to say it's evil. Maybe at the end of the day, you might say "it's just a newspaper." Many things in this world matter more. But it doesn't change another signifier that our world is full of rot.

A Stanford baseball icon.

This can’t be. I’m floored. deadline.com/2026/01/cath...

Wilbur Wood, Tom Bradley and Stan Bahnsen combined to start 130 of the White Sox' 162 games in 1972. The three pitchers accounted for 889 of the 1,385 1/3 innings thrown by the Sox -- 64.1 percent. Wood threw 1,681 2/3 innings in five seasons from 1971-75 with 99 complete games.

How the Arizona Republic prioritized headlines in October 1940

Paraprosdokian: "a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect." @ericstephen.bsky.social

The Homeland episode that no one asked for.

Rare TV Ads From 120 Years of Variety: So many good ones, but for its surreal labeling I have to call out "a Very Special Episode" of Seinfeld. (It's the one where Elaine and Jerry try to set the rules.) variety.com/gallery/tv-a...