My actual TDOV take is this: If it was possible, if we lived in a better world, I’d never talk about being trans, and I often resent feeling like I have to be public and open about it. But.

eradicate whatever the hell it is that calls itself “news” and let’s make the entire operation like those old “7 on Your Side” segments

it’s not near the top of the list of “things that must be fixed if we ever emerge from this nightmare” but bad faith right wing arguments becoming self fulfilling prophecies is a thing that has to be stopped, somehow

as a Gen X’er I sincerely appreciate the Giants homage to terrible Yankees managers of the 1980s and 90s who were clearly in over their heads

getting angry at myself for The Supreme Court because I should have voted harder

That's right

Not every episode of TOS was political but most of the ones that were had almost no subtlety about it.

did everyone on the Phillies get medical treatments from Bryce Harper’s “doctor”?

people do not seem to know this about brian giles, so: www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues...

Most Consecutive Plate Appearances Reaching Safely to Start a Season, since 1951: 2026 Joey Wiemer: 10 *active 2002 Carlos Delgado: 10 1956 Yogi Berra: 9 2021 Yermin Mercedes: 8 2017 Jeremy Hazelbaker: 8 1993 Geronimo Pena: 8 1983 Steve Henderson: 8

I forgot Jared Young was on the roster

Reheating this because my unemployment benefits expire next week. It’s been 6 months since I was laid off, I’ve sent out hundreds of applications, and I’m no closer to finding my next job. If anyone has any leads on open marketing, content, or ecommerce roles, I’d be so grateful for a connection.

There is an infinite universe of literature on human perceptual understanding of sensor uncertainty (and how to even estimate that sensor uncertainty) that MLB seems to have either straight up ignored or doesn’t communicate their knowledge of, which is rather unsurprising.

As I’ve been saying (and I know Chris is probably rightfully sick of hearing!), MLB really has screwed the pooch by not making zone calls tri-valued like in cricket: strike, ball, umpire’s call, with the latter being pinned to a slightly greater error than the nominal machine precision.

There’s a very clear parallel to thinking this is accurate and believing everything an LLM spits out and expanding on this thought any further will get me very yelled at

many of the late Seinfeld episodes seemed far too ridiculous and over the top at the time but these characters and situations all feel like they’d fit right in in 2026

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.

every day I am getting closer and closer to reading the sentence that is going to irrevocably break my brain

you’re not allowed to play unless you’re a billionaire.

it has been pretty silly watching a bunch of people go “a ha! I told you the umpires stink!” with what amounts to some very flimsy and dubious evidence

I’ve had Seinfeld on as a background show recently and one of the most dated things about it is the jokes about what a laughingstock the Yankees are

slept in my U2 t-shirt and I still can’t find my keys

I do like the modern genre convention of someone hitting a time loop or alternate reality thing and everyone going “oh yeah we get it we’ve seen tv shows”

Nicely done by the Dodgers to celebrate @ericstephen.bsky.social

@ericstephen.bsky.social you were there to match your intellect on Dodgers big TV with a doctor named Sylvia Branch she has a PhD

stop stealing my fantasy baseball bits from 2018 @washingtonpost.com

razzing the Carlos Estévez guy in my local league

Haters will say it’s fake (the Giants got a run)

late to this but Carl Crawford geeking out over his kid is one of my favorite things about this season so far

Another fantasy baseball draft season (almost) in the books

(checking last night’s box scores) wow I haven’t seen an Estrada fall apart like that in Southern California since CHiPs got canceled

Simpsons d… er, Mets did it

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

keep seeing this pop up and can’t stop thinking about all the warm weather schools and states that are going to be an absolute non-starter for my kid because they are queer

my favorite one of these is in 2001 Barry Bonds had one HR in his first seven games with a woeful .103/.188/.241 slash line

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

Langeliers, man

I’d take Jenny Cavnar over any of the Fox Sports talent

I know it starts sounding like conspiracy territory, but this is why I think the AI push is happening now, why media consolidation is happening now, why social media companies were brought to heel now and so on. I think it all comes down to creating the most easily manipulated populace.

did Acuña just blow a little kiss at Salvy after that catch?

rooting for Ryan Borucki not to allow any of Ryan Walker’s runners to score leads me to believe that fantasy baseball sucks

a significant part of Trumpism is “the rules apply to thee, not to me” and the people who showed up on 1/6 were the loudest and truest believers of this

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

the people who incessantly complain about the strike zone never seem to get mad when bad calls help their team, funny how that works

You know the Giants hired a college coach because it looks like they’re hungover and aren’t taking this class seriously

The absolute seething hatred like 30% of this site has for the campus anti-israel protestors, who, at this point, basically everyone on here agrees were substantially correct, really feels like it can only be explained by "they were correct too early"

it's actually important that you don't watch this tv show!