I haven’t seen a collapse like this in Detroit since Carter Grant got run over by a car by the heads of Cramblin Advertising

the ghost runner in meaningful September extra inning games is like someone pouring an entire bottle of ketchup on a delicious steak

"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

The people who decided season-ending ties should be decided based on a hierarchy of tiebreakers rather than in an actual ballgame do not like baseball. Some of my best baseball memories involve Game 163, watching two teams who 6 months haven’t separated play just 9 more innings for everything.

Max Scherzer’s homage to the September 2022 Mets is touching

tired: the Mets are collapsing wired: everyone is collapsing except for the Guardians and Marlins

I’ll be out on him next year, which means he’ll surely win his third Cy in 2026 😂

replies are closed so I’ll thank Parker here for making me laugh the fuck out loud (I had never seen this)

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal

2/3 many of my friends and readers have asked how they can practically support me in my career. well, I've always worked best in community. so, I'm launching a *completely free* email list to share brief notes on my research. it's called eyeblack: eyeblack.beehiiv.com/p/introducin...

"What part of your faith teaches you that black women have inferior brain capacity?" "What part of your faith values guns over children?" "What part of your faith allows you to visit your values on others?" "What part of your faith says that women should be subservient to their husbands?"

me and @stacegotsbaseball.com are always happy to oblige on this topic

only old heads will remember but Trump most reminds me of Bob Odenkirk’s Manson character from The Ben Stiller Show

the eight non-COVID MLB teams to make the playoffs with the worst regular season finish (last 28 games, six 11-17 teams, two 10-18 teams) have in the aggregate won more postseason series than they have lost. momentum is a thing until it isn’t.

Always been curious what % of Americans actually know that the major networks don't own the local affiliates and additionally are even aware of Grey, Tegna, Sinclair, and Nexstar? IMO, people have generally just not understood who exactly owns/controls local news.

it’s easy to point to almost anything these days and say “this says so much about the moment we are in” but the push toward AI - and in particular the way it has been mishandled - really speaks volumes

baseball has an amazing sense of humor

Today's decision about ABS zones is MLB prioritizing their control over how we experience the game ahead of technical reality (no matter how much they tested in the minors). This will not factor into much, if any, coverage.

The ABS plan seems good, and it's been tested, and people who have watched a lot of it in the minors say it's not obtrusive, so I'm on board. But I've said from the start that people don't actually want 100% rulebook accuracy, they want their team to get all the calls.

the Tigers had a 1-12 stretch from July 9-26. then went 24-16 from July 27 though September 10 and now are on a 1-10 run since September 11.

nice reminder that their offense isn’t why the Mets collapsed

On the bright side, Matt Shaw didn’t even need to abandon his team in order to attend the Mets’ funeral tonight

Matt Shaw struck out. yeah he really fucked up by leaving the team for a funeral … oh you mean tonight

haven’t watched baseball since mid-July. now time to take a giant sip of water and see how my Mets/Tigers World Series prediction is doing

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

It should not be ignored that the Cubs have a Nazi sympathizer at third base, that he hides behind the cover of “faith” in his defense, and we don’t have a media that actively presses people on their heinous beliefs

Conservative: I have been censored for my faith Me: Holy shit! You were censored for loving your neighbor? Con: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....One True God? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones

I miss when saying "this show about white supremacists is about me, take it off the air" is something people would try to avoid

I think we should only use the term "robot umpires" if there is the possibility of this:

I can't wait for our first "Chris Weber" ABS challenge, when a player angrily calls for a challenge that everybody else knows he's gonna lose, and his team only has one challenge left in the 5th inning.

just for the first season I want an “apology counter” tracking how many times the player is right/not right

most of the reason I want automated ball/strikes is years of staring at that dumb K-zone box and seeing people incessantly complain about pitches a quarter inch out of the zone has worn me down. I hope people don’t complain about the robo umps but human nature is what it is

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

you: the rapture isn’t happening today my cat:

a higher, federal minimum wage is an extremely popular policy that consistently polls very well that can never be implemented ever because it might enrage six retirees in a coffee shop somewhere who will never vote for a Democrat even if their lives depended on it

There's a fixed belief in centrist wonkism that all progressive policies are sugary chocolate Christmas sweets that mummy and daddy can only give out on special occasions and that any conservative idea is definitionally sensible, kitchen-table stuff everyone wants and knows they need

looking at the FG Player Rater and the top 15 SP by ADP in 2025, and Corbin Burnes (ADP 38), Cole Ragans (43), and Dylan Cease (49) fared worse than Blake Snell (47) did 🤷

Y'all fight for comedians. Which is why you don't have Black journalists to oppose Trump, but you do have famed resistance leaders *check notes* Matt Parker and Trey Stone.🤷🏿‍♂️ Kimmel is interviewing Gavin Newsom in his return. His podcast guests were the dudes that got the Black journalists fired.

the Democrats and the punditocracy are perpetually the Skinner/“am I so out of touch?” meme

The plan: fake The Rapture and convince a tyrannical government that they have all been raptured

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

there’s a going to be a giant hole at third base in Chicago, but given how Matt Shaw has played Cubs fans won’t even notice the difference

almost every prominent anti-vaxxer is profiting or attempting to profit off their bullshit, phony baloney stance, it’s one of the easiest “follow the money” things ever

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

When I already took the trash out and did the grocery shopping and my wife asks me to go back out because we're out of dog food

*casually strolling into work on Wednesday* oh yah the big man decided it was better if he didn't rapture all of us, wanted to leave his best guys to fix the mess down here, totally sucks but sometimes you just gotta step up

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.