From Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown to Dizzy Dean, everybody loves baseball names. We welcome Gordon from Athlete Archives to share our favorite baseball names and some of the stories behind them. And in a bonus plot twist: one of them is a fake, a fraud, a bamboozle. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I mean, I'm GONNA watch any new live Bright Eyes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFe9...

Bald-faced, blatant corruption, all the time. "Trump Cashed In One Day After Handing Tech Firm Major Deal" archive.ph/IGUEZ

Online baseball fans act like eliminating all friction from umpiring would make the game better, lacking the realization that the friction is the whole point.

The YouTube algorithm giveth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIR... Shout out to the cool people out there adding amazing stuff to YouTube all the time.

The shock when a lame reboot idea turns into a lame reboot.

The Astros have been fun to watch this year! Hunter Brown on the DL is terrifying, and I wish Framber was still in orange and blue.

NYTimes homepage is like: deranged nut spews unhinged war threats and, hey, have you thought about a few nights in Tucson?

If I’m the proprietor of Dino’s bar and Grill, I’m not so sure I’m all that happy that the boys are back in town

Imagine if all of these resources and human capital were invested in decarbonization?

Running this country about in line with someone who would run a country from a golf course.

What's the positive spin on starting a war with Iran?

The ABS challenge system is just the latest baseball innovation tested in Spring Training. On Clear the Field, we look back to spring training in 1971. One of the new ideas is still with us today. The other is where it belongs, on the scrap heap of history. open.spotify.com/episode/4xzY...

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Imagine a world in which the American president makes a billion dollars off of cryptocurrency during his administration and nobody does a thing about it.

Hemingway’s cursive script in the first draft of The Sun Also Rises is quite inspiring. Legible but loose. Emotive but functional. Lots of white space for editing.

Struggling with that voice in my head saying: there's nobody better than Bob Seger

Yes, I am old, but I still think that "tennis player whining at their coach in the middle of a match" is like the worst look of all time.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

The difference, from an MLB fan's point of view, between something like Mike Trout's or Bryce Harper's long-term deal is so vast when compared with the short, opt-out deals of today. Shades of the NCAA environment and its constant NIL jumpers. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...

Normalization of the US president "joking" about not holding elections says quite a bit about where we are as a society.

Most of us want to know how to tie cool knots but absolutely don't want to do what it would take to learn them.

The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2 open.substack.com/pub/project3...

Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.

The American president was best friends for a long time with a notorious depraved pederast who kept none of it secret. If you can defend that, boy howdy.

Need everyone to stop making new movies, writing new books, or recording new albums until I get caught up. Thanks,

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

The stories that my friend Paul finds in the annals of baseball history, seriously. In this edition, we discuss a coach who literally brings a WHISTLE with him to the third base coaching box. www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...

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The headline doesn't do justice to this exploration of the creative process... pitchfork.com/features/cov...

Dijon has that undeniable spark... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDs...

You should listen to Liam Kazar's new album "Pilot Light." www.thelunacollective.co/journal/qa-l...

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great). www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...

If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches. www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87

New Khruangbin album!

Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.

Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m. www.chron.com/news/houston...

The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.

"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm

I've never had much problem with the whole pretend kings and queens thing but today it has a kind of ghastly pallor.

A timely essay from Anthony Kwame Appiah on the complex push and pull of free speech. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Another day of worrying about someone you care for who lives near a shooting incident. #America

Thanks for this reminder that when Trump had COVID, he signed a blank piece of paper in order to pretend that he was still working. #propaganda

Well said, Houston Chronicle www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

The long-term negative impact of the DOGE fiasco will haunt us for many, many years. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Sorry but what red-blooded American and/or human, generally, is totally good with "masked soldiers" and "masked police"?

One of these days, I'll have to watch Interstellar. Not today, though, my son wants to watch Grown Ups (again).