This is important to me. Biking around NYC rules, even if the infrastructure still mostly sucks. Wrote about this a bunch here: ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

it's just a wild factoid that I like sharing wherever possible. If you made Jurassic Park IRL you'd probably assume the T. Rex would eat the stegosaurus, but really it'd be like "hey what the fuck is THAT thing?"

DID YOU KNOW? It's been about 65 million years since the t. rex went extinct and about 150 million years since the stegosaurus went extinct, meaning we're currently closer in time to the age of the t. rex than the t. rex was to the age of the stegosaurus.

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

If you're looking for someone to do any sort of paid work in lower Manhattan between the hours of 9 am and 2 pm Monday-Friday hmu. I am the former honorary president of Taco Bell.

imo it should be way easier to find lucrative part-time jobs on your exact terms

Is there a widely accepted term for pitchers on the 26th man/DFA/Triple-A circuit? I was going to suggest Loveladies but it's easy to see how that would become problematic.

Ted!

Small sample size song YouTube video by Ted Berg

ffs people there's a whole song about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw9q...

Chicken v. Egg

I’ve been curious about this as I’m not up to speed on the last ~7 years’ worth of baseball thought. What’s the evidence that it’s a step above noise, even over a full season/career? Beyond the anecdotal/small sampular, what makes a hitter especially good with RISP and who are those hitters?

I have a memory of watching it on a TV cart in my elementary school gym, but it happened the year before I started elementary school.

Scorched Eddie? That guy’s alright.

It feels like suddenly everyone’s convinced they’re being gaslit. Friend, no one’s putting in that type of effort. They’re just plain, old-fashioned lying to you.

How do you show the world that you’re cool? I drive really fast in the Costco parking lot.

Claiming you teleported to a Waffle House should be disqualifying for a job as a FEMA administrator but OTOH you’re now a shoo-in for High Times Man of the Year.

Rockefeller Center at Christmas time was a special kind of hell. My favorite was how many tourists wanted to pose for photos inside revolving doors.

Uhhhh the rocky statue

They seem to be coming back in NYC, but in the form of expensive, hourly rental “baseball facilities” rather than token-based mini golf/arcade/three working cages and one of them occasionally fires a ball at your foot-type places.

They’re hanging out at the wrong playgrounds. Look upon my works, wildlife photographers!

Consensus of Bluesky is that this is a quail. But are there often quail on nyc playgrounds? It looked pretty terrified but birds often do.

A bird that doesn’t seem like it belongs on the playground

Bird people: what kind of bird is this?

yeah but do you do it with verve?

Everyone forgets about the Joe Schmo show.

THE METS HAVE TWICE DEFEATED THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES!

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE

John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown

(Pic via petermarietoto on X)

I completely picked my college due to nice weather on the day of my visit. There were a lot of other things about the school that appealed to me but I first saw it on an unseasonably warm spring day and I was hooked.

I’m not a righteous man but I know injustice when I see it, and it is complete horseshit that the Mets are not playing today. Do Manfred and his goon squad even understand that they won yesterday? This is an utter travesty.

I favor the green, purple and maroon options because whoever decided that blue and black are the only acceptable ink colors is not the boss of me.

If fancy pens are the topic I’ll jump in and recommend the Zebra Sarasa Grand. At $13 they’re costly enough that you’ll try hard not to lose them but not so costly that you’ll be distraught if you do. Very stately and substantial-feeling. Also: unchewable. Many color options, refillable. Great pens.