Really great find there. Question for you, do you have a sense of *why* the balks are being called?
Is there an actual rulebook thing the teams are tripping over or are umps just getting confused by the first baseman being positioned unusually?
Thanks for reading!
Looks like the Mets *might* be signaling in pitch suggestions to the catcher, too … not that it’s helping at the moment. bandwagon.ghost.io/the-call-is-...
I don't know who to lobby about this, but: MacArthur Grant for Caity Weaver
Wrote about April's unbelievable things. Good, bad, untethered from rational judgment.
bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
They’re really executing the perfect tour to convince my acoustic-preferring wife to get into Lenderman’s music.
I have a feeling I gave this song a belated spin for the same reason you did lol
Today in The Marlins are Trying Things.
Hannah did skip the *more* positive part for Mets fans.
April is a disproportionately slumpy month, especially recently. bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
Chosen because the Line of Hedges was preposterously low.
The face of a man who is only 23 somehow.
Every day has felt like April Fools’ Day for a good long while. Anything could be “real” in the sense that it’s not a prank, a lie that vanishes when the jig is up. “Real” as in a thing that’s actually happening, even if skipped past separation and divorce from reality and went straight for total estrangement. You can summon your own examples for this without digging past yesterday’s news. For reasons of a few people’s money and power, we now render hallucinations in the same authoritative black and white digital ink as the encyclopedia. The only difference is the hallucinations are much easier to find. April has always been baseball’s interregnum of unreality. Lacking their usual scale, the numbers that keep this ultra-quantified sport’s bearings get tossed around on nauseating waves in the season’s first month. Maybe it’s just my proximity to Mets fans, but I think the world has worn down our resolve to weather the ups and downs of a new journey.
Included herein:
-Mason Miller
-Jordan Walker
-Allbirds
-A secret speakeasy at the Mariners ballpark
-The Astros pitching
-The Mets. Ahhh, the Mets.
bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
Hannah did skip the *more* positive part for Mets fans.
April is a disproportionately slumpy month, especially recently. bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
@zcrizer.bsky.social trying to mets fans feel better... I think. bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
Every day has felt like April Fools’ Day for a good long while. Anything could be “real” in the sense that it’s not a prank, a lie that vanishes when the jig is up. “Real” as in a thing that’s actually happening, even if skipped past separation and divorce from reality and went straight for total estrangement. You can summon your own examples for this without digging past yesterday’s news. For reasons of a few people’s money and power, we now render hallucinations in the same authoritative black and white digital ink as the encyclopedia. The only difference is the hallucinations are much easier to find. April has always been baseball’s interregnum of unreality. Lacking their usual scale, the numbers that keep this ultra-quantified sport’s bearings get tossed around on nauseating waves in the season’s first month. Maybe it’s just my proximity to Mets fans, but I think the world has worn down our resolve to weather the ups and downs of a new journey.
Included herein:
-Mason Miller
-Jordan Walker
-Allbirds
-A secret speakeasy at the Mariners ballpark
-The Astros pitching
-The Mets. Ahhh, the Mets.
bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
Wrote about April's unbelievable things. Good, bad, untethered from rational judgment.
bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...
Parker Messick primer for anyone who needs, from Bandwagon’s breakout player list. bandwagon.ghost.io/preboarding-...
Really liked this piece. Do think there's a big thing missing from all this discourse which is that the astroturfing stuff isn't about persuasion or about the comments/commenters seeming real or believable. It's about *discovery.* The audience for the astroturfing isn't listeners, it's the algorithm
I mean look at that bsky.app/profile/cjze...
The master of his craft bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...
Do we need a demilitarized zone but for the batter's box and catcher's box? Like those parking lots that have two-line buffer zones between each spot.
This week, [ticking sound] Jack Bauer [Ticking Sound] faces his toughest test yet, [TICKING SOUND] the sixth inning. [TICK! TICK!]
Sunday, on 102.4.
(First episode linked below. I have no stake in this but I'm interested to see what people think who might not have been predisposed to spending an hour with baseball content.) youtu.be/ARrVSrC_9KI?...
The show’s larger ambition — the thing Jeff Passan keeps circling back to when he talks about what he actually wants it to accomplish — is baseball literacy, but delivered without the condescension that phrase usually implies. The sport has spent most of the past decade bleeding younger audiences and, with ABS, the pitch clock, the shift restrictions, and the international broadcasts, has spent the last few years clawing them back. The games are shorter. The stars are more visible. Corbin Carroll is on your timeline. For the first time in a long time, baseball is genuinely competing for the attention of people who did not grow up with it, and those people deserve a show that meets them where they are without making them feel like they showed up to a party they weren’t invited to.
I really hope this works! The fun and nuance of in-depth baseball conversation still needs more on-ramps.
(It's a huge part of what I try to do with Bandwagon, and Jeff obviously has the access to get at it from a rare angle.)
awfulannouncing.com/orig/jeff-pa...
Between the Geese discourse and being in a lot of group chats with Mets fans, I'm very close to going totally insane.
The Goo Goo Dolls are a psyop
weird that the plural band tapped into the singularity
Double-A Wichita's Honkers logo featuring a honking goose
The Wichita Honkers are industry plants.
I fell for a psyop I saw on TV that convinced me to eat a cheeseburger
The statue died so Humpy could live, or something like that.