I find the bench-calling-pitches thing interesting, but it's hardly new. College has done this forever, MLB has seen it on-and-off at time for decades. Anyway, here's a delightful story about Mickey Mantle calling Whitey Ford's pitches in the 60s. www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/06/f...

My mother, baby box turtle photographer.

An aptly brilliant farewell from @barrysvrlugawp.bsky.social and WaPo Sports

The red delicious apple, which is and isn't.

Her name: Alice Milliat. Her proposal: Women get equal access to ALL Olympic sports. Rebuffed, she created an Olympics for women in 1922. It was HUGE! The women competed in packed stadiums. Reporters dubbed Alice the apostle of women's sports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgci... The response?

That's a wrap on another Olympics! Women athletes owned these Games: Alysa Liu, Breezy Johnson, Hilary Knight to name a few! And there's one woman, from 100 years ago, who is the real reason women are here. She was written out of history and buried in an unmarked grave. This is a 🧵 about her!

What triggered the emergency warning at Scottsdale Stadium in the first inning? Someone was smoking in a restroom, and it set off the alarm. True story.

The essence of spring training right here. Hire the MiLB guys who know who's who.

Michigan, center of the hockey universe.

@tylermaun.com Let's say Team USA in the WBC is the Canada of Olympic hockey. Who in the WBC is the Team USA?

Get your cocaine, motorcycle, and helicopter ready.

I get defensive as I read BP's prospect rankings/write-ups as it accurately observes all of my guy's flaws, and then I get to the end and it comps him to someone like Marco Scutaro and I feel so proud. Anyway, BP prospect analysis, let's go.

I think of the Casey Stengel quote about keeping the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. On every baseball team are a few think-they're-intelligent nuts and a whole lot of suggestible guys just living their life, and you have to keep the former away from the latter.

The thing about Spring Training, as we sit here on its eve: we can't wait for it to start, and we can't wait for it to end.

Oriol magic! (This is about ski mountaineering.)

here you go

this is an absolutely infuriating angle to take in this situation. why is it on the union to find creative solutions to ownership problems, exactly? why is it on the union to save owners from themselves when it comes to sacrificing games?

Why should "keep baseball on the field" be on the players if there's a lockout enforced by the owners? As a reminder, even if the bargaining agreement expires, baseball can still continue without a contract, as it did in 1994 before the strike. Canceling games is the owners' choice.

Attention all aspiring baseball broadcasters: Join Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, Shawn Murnin, Emma Tiedemann, Nicholas Badders and me next Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. for a networking forum to help you break into the industry. Email me to RSVP!

Three on three knockout overtime was electric.

Our annual MiLB Broadcaster Networking Zoom is coming up next week, led by good people: Emma Tiedemann, Shawn Murnin, Joe Vasile, and Nick Badders. RSVP to me or to them, and share the word with anyone you know who's interested.

The six-year-old's new personal art project is an album of baseball caps. My friends, the Chattanooga Lookouts.

This was so worth it.

Thank goodness for college baseball.

Shoooooooot, you better have incredible ops and cubbies, or it's a long season. To not pay these people is asking for a rough time.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

That Super Bowl halftime show was beyond incredible, and fun. Here’s the story of how it came together, complete with beautiful photos from @d-jacks.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Part seven of my pictorial retrospective of baseball; this installment is devoted to the 1840s. Pretty good, I think. ourgame.mlblogs.com/a-pictorial-...

There is a whole generation of people who've been waiting to see the Patriots crash out, and this game is hitting right.

You know how the 2025 World Series was one of the greatest World Series ever, and capped an awesome postseason overall? This Super Bowl pretty well sums up the NFL season.

Both offenses so far look like First Three Quarters Caleb Williams.

Children today will never know the thrill of the Bud Bowl. I swear there were years I cared about the outcome more than that of the actual Super Bowl.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

WHAT THE

Lansing Lugnuts on WBC rosters: 🇲🇽 Alejandro Kirk, Rowdy Tellez 🇺🇸 Matthew Boyd, Mason Miller 🇩🇴 Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Carlos Febles 🇨🇦 Otto López, Denzel Clarke 🇨🇴 Brayan Buelvas 🇹🇼 Tzu-Chen Sha, Wei-En Lin, Chen Zhuang 🇨🇺 Pedro Santos

Let me draw your attention to Czechia's WBC roster.

Seems as though they have laid off their entire photography staff. Photojournalists don’t just take photos, we report, we pitch, we take photos while our lives and safety are under threat. We explore our neighborhoods, restaurants and sports with a creative eye. Photojournalists do it all.

This would be a perfect time to have a local sports department report and analyze what Washington is doing

Imagine declaring that covering sports was inessential on National Girls and Women in Sports Day. The utter gall.

Will Hobson says he was laid off today. Take a look at his recent bylines. www.washingtonpost.com/people/will-...

I'm sick, man. Telling the Washington Post Sports Department that they need to be eliminated in order to make the newspaper more essential to readers is like lining up the Boston Red Sox in front of the Green Monster and telling the financial landscape dictates Boston move on from baseball.

I will die on the hill that not everything should have to exist for profit margins and that public interest and profit are often deeply misaligned.

RIP Ron Teasley.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Instead of having 19 figures, this should have six figures and 19 outfits.

I feel like this should be a major component of the story, and yet I've never seen it explored. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Who was MLB's first Black player? Not Jackie Robinson in 1947, not Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother Weldy in 1884 … but William Edward White, in 1879. He passed for white for much of his life but, uniquely among MLB players, he was born a slave. ourgame.mlblogs.com/pioneers-wil...

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

Join us in standing up for our immigrant neighbors in Lansing and in Minnesota. linktr.ee/lansingcommonfc

"Learning how to watch a thing for the job you want to do" is such a key part of learning that job. I know that sounds vague but learning how to watch basketball or football to write about it took me a lot of time and study, but it was worth it.