My first home run ball of the year is on the fly from Daylen Lile.

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.