@thatbootlegguy.bsky.social @ruthkapelus.bsky.social I listened to your episode!! I really appreciated the conversation and conclusions.

Wemby from half a mile away, you gotta be kidding

Wemby is unreal!!!

Matt Murdock doing his best to live out his values, that's what's up.

the scientific community is too scared to list Ankylosaurus in a survey because of how much it would dominate the competition

The Double-A Texas League is more expansive than the Premier League.

Zyhir is one of my favorite people in the minors, too. Such a good dude.

The pureness.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opening of Maple Leaf Stadium, and the championship season of the Leafs. www.augustpublications.com/products/the...

Our Portland Bureau Chief(TM) @joshjacksonmilb.bsky.social has more on the wild, wacky home opener in Portland:

@tylermaun.com you routed these cool people. This is Rangers 30, O's 3.

This pic goes so hard

The 2026 Lansing Lugnuts. www.milb.com/lansing/news...

Pitching a baseball leads to injury and most be moderated and limited whenever possible.

I've been re-reading Diana Wynne Jones books this off-season, and they're as great as ever.

Look let's just get a Diana Wynne Jones revival out of this

Giddy experience to read a series and realize it's not just gliding down from where it unavoidably peaked in Book One

I'm once again asking for any manager interview to be done either before the game or between innings and run in a little corner of the screen where I don't have to watch it

Kansas City, Kansas, to Ithaca, NY, non-stop, one day, two drivers.

Lansing Foodies is a menace that must be stopped

If this was the year for Indiana football, this can be the year for Nebraska basketball.

The effect of the WBC on our household is that Ezequiel Tovar is now popping up in Nat Geo Mad Libs.

The A's went into Spring Breakout with (rightfully) Henry Bolte, Leo De Vries, Tommy White, Gage Jump, and Jamie Arnold the story of camp. And then the game turned into a nice showcase for Kade Morris, Breyson Guedez, Shotaro Morii, and Cole Conn. There was a lot to like.

Aracelis Leon is the first woman to ever be president of the Venezuelan Baseball Federation. She and her team just captured Venezuela’s first championship in any international sports competition since 1945. Now and forever, she is a baseball legend. 📸: @aleon_fvboficial on Instagram

The Texas/NC State finish was great (as was Howard/UMBC), but the notion of putting Vitale and Barkley together on the call was dreadful and actively detracted.

very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

Can't watch that and tell me what baseball needs is a salary cap.

This is honestly one of the greatest baseball atmospheres I've ever watched. The game in a vacuum isn't thrilling, but the crowd's energy has me pumped.

Us broadcasters need to learn a second thing about Luis Arraez.

Here's 18-year-old Davis Schneider at the 2017 Crosstown Showdown.

Going through the archives, here's 17-year-old J.J. D'Orazio as a rookie league Blue Jays prospect cameoing in the 2019 Crosstown Showdown.

WBC crowd pops are unparalleled.

Vinnie Pasquantino asked me if I'm gonna hit a home run. he also said the espresso tastes like a home run.

This list is fascinating from a 2026 perspective, just to see the kinds of teams that major-league teams used to play on their days off. Factory teams! Picked teams of locals!

Perfect game for a postgame call-in show. You could rant about the umpire, the system, the base-running decisions, the lack of hitting with RiSP.

Multiple Triple-A broadcasters have posted that in their experience, teams are always out of challenges by the ninth inning. That's a bad use of challenges, man.

I'm sorry, did Joe just say that Bobby Witt is the toolsiest player since Robin Yount?

We need to get Team USA playing on unfriendly soil in the event. Get these guys out of non-Toronto MLB parks and out of their comfort zone.

What if … and hear me out here … what if we did this for all the rabid baseball fans in the states, all the kids who love the game with their whole being, all the kids who are on the fence about the game but need an example of just how fun it is? bsky.app/profile/bwd....

Mary Poppins.

“My hat has number 58 on it which is the country code for Venezuela, so you should call someone there and tell them that Venezuela is in the Olympics and in the World Baseball Classic semifinals,” manager Omar Lopez said after the win tonight

It's so cool that baseball can sound like this in March.

I now understand the Daytona 500 thing of starting the season with the pinnacle of the sport.

I love Ronald Acuna Jr so much.

Ally Spider

since people are talking about sports gambling today, can I implore you to read this, in which recovered gambling addicts talk about how it changed their relationship to friends, family, fandom and themselves. I've thought about these conversations so much since reporting www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...

Something I love about spring training: The A's lineup, in a game they're going to televise, has their No. 3 starter and 7/9 of the Opening Day starting lineup. Batting 8th is a top prospect likely to be called up by May. And batting 9th is an 18-year-old who hasn't played above the DSL. Let's go.

What I appreciate most about the WBC is how it showcases the spectrum of what baseball can be, on the field, in the dugout, in the stands.