My first home run ball of the year is on the fly from Daylen Lile.
Posts by Rick Gold
Nationals Park
Game No. 18 of 2026: Braves-Nationals
Nationals Park
Game No. 17 of 2026: Braves-Nationals
Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.
Progressive Field
Game No. 16, stadium No. 5 of 2026 and game No. 2, stadium No. 2 today: Orioles-Guardians
PNC Park
Game No. 15 of 2026: Nationals Pirates
PNC Park
Game No. 14 of 2026: Nationals-Pirates
PNC Park
Game No. 13 of 2026: Nationals-Pirates
The Pope is soft on crime though.
PNC Park
Game No. 12, stadium No. 4 of 2026: Nationals-Pirates
J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.
Citizens Bank Park
Game No. 11 of 2026: D-backs-Phillies
Citizens Bank Park
Game No. 10 of 2026: D-backs-Phillies
Nationals Park
Game No. 9 of 2026: Cardinals-Nationals
Nationals Park
Game No. 8 of 2026: Cardinals-Nationals. My 250th game at Nationals Park.
Nationals Park
Game No. 7, stadium No. 3 of 2026: Cardinals-Nationals
Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. In sharp contrast to the Trump administration's calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is "entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ." [photo of Pope Leo with this caption] Pope Leo, during the Holy Thursday Mass in Rome, said the Christian mission had often been "distorted by a desire for domination." Vincenzo Livieri/Reuters
the defense secretary who was plucked off a couch at fox news is arguing about jesus with the fucking POPE in case you’re wondering how things are going
I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent.
To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.
Camden Yards
Game No. 6 of 2026: Rangers-Orioles
Game No. 5 of 2026: Rangers-Orioles
This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.
Camden Yards
Game No. 4, stadium No. 2 of 2026: Rangers-Orioles
Trump slashed cancer funding. If you are going to slavishly defend him, at least pick a better hypothetical.
Citizens Bank Park
Game No. 3 of 2026: Rangers-Phillies
Citizens Bank Park
Game No. 2 of 2026: Rangers-Phillies
They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.
This is definitely a sustainable system and will certainly not collapse pyrotechnically within the decade
Citizens Bank Park
Game No. 1 of 2026: Rangers-Phillies
How can this go on for another 3 years?
$400,000,000 for White House ballroom
$200,000,000,000 for Iran War
$4,000,000,000,000 for billionaire tax cuts
We’re told there’s no money for healthcare funding, college loans, or cancer research.
Meanwhile, we’re facing soaring costs and an anemic economy while the Epstein elite are feasting.