Mets lost their 11th game in a row today
Since 1950, just *3* teams have lost 11+ games in a row in a season AND gone on to make the playoffs that same season:
1) 2017 Dodgers - lost 11 games (9/2 to 9/11)
2) 1982 Braves - lost 11 games (8/3 to 8/13)
3) 1951 Giants - lost 11 games (4/19 to 4/19)
Respective fine amounts for fighting during LAA vs ATL last week: $278 - Jorge Soler $564,062 - Reynaldo López
Respective fine amounts for fighting during LAA vs ATL last week:
$278 - Jorge Soler
$564,062 - Reynaldo López
(source: Spotrac)
On Jackie Robinson Day at the Jackie Robinson Museum, Roy Wood Jr talks to Howard Bryant about MLB's shift to recruiting college players and its effect on Black representation in the league
Got curious about Gerrit Cole bunting after @garyhphillips.bsky.social posted a video of Cole squaring to bunt during Yankees BP
Cole has 28 sac bunts in his career
most recent: 2 on 9/23/17 (PIT vs STL)
3rd + 5th inning PAs, helping Cole pad the lead to pick up his 12th win
Acronyms are pronounced as words.
-scuba
-laser
-NASA
Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters.
-NFL
-TSA
-TGIF
'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.
There is a growing section of shirtless Rockies fans at Coors Field chanting "Take it off, take it off!"
the group is getting bigger as more topless people join
As a team, Yankees have 12 SB across the first 9 games of this season. Last time they did that was 1998!
Yankees teams since 1920: Most SB in 1st 9 games
18 SB - 1998 NYY
15 SB - 1988 NYY
15 SB - 1969 NYY
14 SB - 1989 NYY
14 SB - 1976 NYY
12 SB - 2026 NYY
12 SB - 1971 NYY
Easter Bunny takes in Mets vs. Giants from a hot tub in McCovey Cove on Easter Sunday
Easter Bunny takes in Mets vs. Giants from a hot tub in McCovey Cove on Easter Sunday
baseball is wacky
mohs*
mohr questions need to be asked
Significant WNBA salaries update
All existing contracts (mostly rookie-scale deals) have been updated on Her Hoop Stats cap sheets to their new adjusted figures under the new CBA. So Clark's $528,846, Bueckers's $500,000 etc., plus all future seasons. #WNBA
herhoopstats.com/salary-cap-s...
"hitterish" also up there for me
Every Minor League team plays today for the first time in 2026, which means it's time for my work pride and joy:
Updating the MiLB county map
thru a linguistics lens it is fascinating
it's likely I will join you
I love Carlin how have I not seen this before?!??!
Stuff is my favorite baseball term. It's hilarious we use a word so vague to refer so specifically to a pitcher's arsenal and/or general abilities and/or how accessible those general abilities and talents are to that pitcher on this particular day
my 2nd favorite is "baseball activities"
Robbie Ray in mid-season form grunting-wise
I always like rooting for him
You will not read a more comprehensive or informative blog on Space Toilets today. That's the Defector promise. defector.com/artemis-bold...
John Oram 1938 patent for an "indicator" (robotic umpire)
*Robot Baseball Umps in the 1930s*
1936: Guy T. Luntsford conceives of a robotic umpire that uses photoelectric cells to signal strike calls w/ a gong
1938: John Oram patents a robotic umpire made of photoelectric cells + mirrors that produce overlapping beams of light to create a strike zone
"There will be no balls for charity," the president said mournfully, "and none for fancy dress. There will be none held for pleasure, which, quite frankly, are the balls I like best."
I wasn't in the mood to have my picture taken
1994 Steamboat lift ticket for Erica
what I was like in the 90s / whenever
GO ETS
ANSKY
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS
Gotham Sports trademark application appeal is denied as of 3/18/2026
Gotham Sports App is struggling to trademark that name.
US Patent & Trademark Office has rejected multiple trademark appeals filed by Gotham Advanced Media and Entertainment: ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pn...
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.
She accepted three.
One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
Will Smith becomes the 61st MLB catcher to homer on his bday!
Last catcher to do it:
5/29/23 - Patrick Bailey (24th bday)
MLB catchers w/ most birthday HR:
4 Lance Parrish (June 15th)
3 Mike Piazza (Sept 4th)
3 Jim Sundberg (May 18th)
3 Sherm Lollar (Aug 23rd)
Gizmos and Gadgets vehicle race
Gizmos and Gadgets vehicle race
My otherwise pleasant memories of playing Gizmos & Gadgets on a shared family computer in the 1990s have been completely tainted by these
