Braxton Ashcraft had 1 earned run, 1 walk and 9 Ks in 5 innings and they're gonna blow it

Or Justin Lawrence oh my god why are they doing this

Trying to imagine how good the Pirates might be without Ozuna

His hustle to catch the ball yesterday was great too -- the man is on fire in Chicago

well well well look who may not suck

Ah, but work pays for the vehicle and fuel costs unless they bring their own rocket

NASA middle management reminding astronauts to turn in those expense reports for the moon landing trip:

Apparently, they're salaried with no overtime, but do get a per diem for work travel lol

Are NASA astronauts salaried or do they get overtime for being in space?

Bottom of the 6th, they had men on 1st and 3rd with no outs. Then a groundball got Lindor out at 3rd, subsequent double play ended the inning. Still 1-0

Watching the Mets is a unique form of psychological torture, how is this offense down 1-0 against the A's pitchers

No one gives a shit about the separation of church and state and it sucks

Maybe the answer is "books"

Wild to think about how, over the past 20 years, the cultural coding around the word "podcast" went from "a thing you used to listen to Ira Glass on your own time" to "right-wing adjacent slop content"

My sense is that such a place may not exist, given the widespread descent of sports media into McAfee-style podcast stuff

Besides Defector of course

Where are people reading really good literary reportage about sports nowadays? Thought about this 20-year-old Mariano Rivera profile today – and about how I don't know what kind of outlet regularly publishes this kind of thing today

Picked a good year to start watching Pittsburgh hockey

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

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On all other weeks, we vacuum semi-frequently. Why on this week do we vacuum very frequently?

Passover, or as it's more commonly known, Crumbs Week

I also didn't realize until reading this that the Letter of Recommendation got nixed. I don't know about the column's readership numbers, but it seemed like every writer out there wanted to write one!

Every leftist in Western PA:

Pirates currently on pace to win 103 games

During a local history lesson at school in Pittsburgh, a guy came to tell us how when he was young he would put on a white face mask when he left the house and it would be gray by the time he got home

Fans of the big teams are missing out -- Pittsburgh baseball has been so trash for so long that simply scoring a medium-high amount of runs is wildly exciting

how bout the bucs

Mets in first place with walkoff, Skenes with 6 Ks through 4 innings

Might be odd, but it's really great to have two teams you love -- baseball polyamory just provides so much more depth to my life. In this essay, I will -- *gets slapped in the face*