Anticipation of this bonus episode is so high that I got my four-year-old son hooked on “My Pal Foot Foot.”

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

SABR Games Project article on Garner’s grand slam spree of September 1978 coming soon!

The Mad Hungarian threw 99 pitches in a marathon relief effort in this crazy game in 1974:

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Grand slam by a second baseman is a nice Phil Garner tribute. #LetsGoBucs

Grand slam by a second baseman is a nice Phil Garner tribute.

Here’s Richard Cuicchi’s SABR article on it!

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Jeff Robinson baseball card.

“His short blond hair is spiked. He tends to wander around the clubhouse in his own zone, his earphones hugging his head.”

My latest for SABR remembers the split-finger craze, a pre-coinage Immaculate Inning, and The Fabulous Hoon’s remarkable series at Wrigley Field.

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Bryan Reynolds @baseball-reference.com endorsement this weekend.

Cc: @adarowski.bsky.social

In terms of concurrent life experiences, it’s:

1. Stallings slam - during my wedding reception
2. Cueto - middle of the night during a USAF assignment to Qatar
3. Giles - the half of the day-night doubleheader that I didn’t go to on my birthday

I am so want to call out this extremely important point: Bondi and Noem would not be fired if we had not been aggressively pushing for the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Shoot for the moon, clear out some incompetent trash along the way.

History has shown the pendulum of social justice: glimmers, progress, retreats, repeat.

For one week in 1954, in otherwise-segregated Birmingham, there was a glimmer — only on the baseball field.

My latest for the Society for American Baseball Research. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Cc: @1992pirates.bsky.social

Barry Bonds baseball card.

“I just had a certain feeling Barry had a better chance in that situation.”

My latest for the SABR Games Project remembers a Pirates-Cubs game that began 40 years ago in April, ended in August, and resulted in an oddity on Barry Bonds’ Baseball-Reference page.

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Early Father’s Day present, baseball fans:
How many games do you know of where a father and son have managed against each other?
My new SABR Games Project jawn🚨 tells the story of one such game 50 years ago this summer. Check it out: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

The hero of @johnfredland.bsky.social’s excellent contribution to the recent SABR Games Project Opening Day package:

Lovelady was a British shoegaze band made up of Nick Yorke, Billy Cook, and Henry Davis. Their big hit was “Ghostrunner In The Tenth.”

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

He withdrew after winding up in a run-off, so he’s done.

Which Y are you with? My four-year-old had his first t-ball game at OP Schnabel this morning.

Who doesn't love Charlie Hough lore? Longtime listener @aharner.bsky.social has a new article about everybody's favorite knuckleballing Opening Day starting grandfather.
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Sean Casey baseball card.

“Of course, I’m from Pittsburgh, so I think it’s the nicest.”

My new one for SABR remembers Pops, The Mayor, and PNC Park’s origin story, 25 years ago next month.

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Trump 2.0 has been marked by an increasingly wide and obvious gulf between media elites and the general American public, which the elites themselves seem oddly confused about.

HOW DO YOU THINK HE DOES IT?

Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by the Who, Part 2: “Led By His Disciples” Apologies for the delay in posting this episode — health issues have continued to affect me. They *seem* to be improving, but I should also mention here that some of the guitar demonstrations in th…

The new 500 Songs episode is now up! The Bonzo Dog Band! Suspended fourth chords! Zoroastrianism! Marbles! Ableism! Pop-Freudianism! And aliens with trousers unlike our own! It can only be the second and final part of our look at "Pinball Wizard" by the Who!

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

Ed Reulbach baseball card.

New from the SABR Games Project: John Elrod remembers when Ed Reulbach nearly no-hit the Hitless Wonders.

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Black and white photo of a baseball team. They wear white uniforms with a dark word CONNECTICUT across their jerseys. They sit underneath a no-frills scoreboard

Some June madness for your lunch reading:
In which unheralded UConn meets mighty Texas in the College World Series, and you won’t believe what happens next.
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