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.

Yikes.

Thomas Pynchon has always been writing nonfiction.

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.

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

I'm a parent in this world, as guilty as anyone. My justification is that it's like a gifted and talented program. There was a point at which my son would throw a ball to a kid who wasn't even paying attention to the game. He wanted to be around more dedicated players, and from there it builds.

Interesting to see justice being served in other non-US countries while authority figures here continue to cover up and distract.

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

Most of us would never get up from that...

The most generous possible read is that it's a bad joke. A bad joke born of lame resentment politics...

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.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p

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.

Third one looks like a Jason Bateman-led biopic

Opt-out after 20 minutes or 30 minutes with $1.99 buyouts may have gotten it done.

The Opener: Tucker, Roster Moves, Fan Events Today's baseball news is highlighted by the fallout of the Kyle Tucker signing and a handful of upcoming roster moves. Read more at MLBTR.

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.

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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 In 1982 baseball’s most accomplished spitball pitcher was finally brought to justice.

The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2
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Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.

Clear the Field Podcast | Project 3.18 | Paul Jackson | Substack Clear the Field is a baseball history podcast about when the game goes sideways. From the sepia-toned malarky of the 19th century game to the psychedelic mayhem of the swingin’ 70s, these true stori...

I convinced my brilliant friend Paul to start a baseball history podcast with me.

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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,

Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

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