Exploring Baseball History
@bballhist.bsky.social
Used to write a baseball blog on past, present, and future of baseball. Former professor, now soulless consultant. Baltimore Elite Giants fan. Charlie Keller stan. SABR member.
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
The owners have won like 11 straight CBA cycles and people still think the players should just cave harder.
February 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The owners have won like 11 straight CBA cycles and people still think the players should just cave harder.
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
okay you know what we're doing this
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you
rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
I feel comfortable saying Rise of Skywalker was the worst Star Wars because it is the only one I genuinely do not remember enough of it to offer a coherent explanation of the plot. I think a knife and Poe’s ex-wife were somehow involved.
February 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
okay you know what we're doing this
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
Rise of Skywalker
The last Hobbit movie is pretty close.
Constant action makes a movie so boring.
The last Hobbit movie is pretty close.
Constant action makes a movie so boring.
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Rise of Skywalker
The last Hobbit movie is pretty close.
Constant action makes a movie so boring.
The last Hobbit movie is pretty close.
Constant action makes a movie so boring.
You know! Like they did in the past!
They're far-right utopians. They think if everyone stops doing institutional cooperation in favor of "national sovereignty," then "western civilization" will form as a natural community among the wealthy, white, male, Xtian elites who run the US, the UK, the states of the Former European Union, etc.
February 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
You know! Like they did in the past!
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
February 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
Something not said often enough....
February 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Something not said often enough....
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
Time to write about Buster Clarkson 😍
February 18, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Time to write about Buster Clarkson 😍
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
And now for something completely different: I point out something GOOD from the Times editorial board www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Democratic Party, ICE, Trump: 13 Democratic Voters Discuss
The group discusses the Democratic Party’s response to Trump and his reshaping of American life.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
And now for something completely different: I point out something GOOD from the Times editorial board www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
I can say that I would not (though I would delete either, I would still want to talk ball) Then again, the reasons why are not unrelated to the reasons why I will never be rich
Every now & then I see people post things like “if I suddenly got rich, you’d never hear from me again, all my socials will be deleted,” etc.
Are we forgetting everything we know about wealth, power & unaccountability? You would post constantly. Trivially. Self-destructively. Like rich people do!
Are we forgetting everything we know about wealth, power & unaccountability? You would post constantly. Trivially. Self-destructively. Like rich people do!
February 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I can say that I would not (though I would delete either, I would still want to talk ball) Then again, the reasons why are not unrelated to the reasons why I will never be rich
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
Major League career HR leaderboard last time Arsenal played Mansfield Town
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Major League career HR leaderboard last time Arsenal played Mansfield Town
Daughter (5) loves the ski jumping. She calls it 'flying' and...I love her
February 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Daughter (5) loves the ski jumping. She calls it 'flying' and...I love her
He also got ditched AS SOON AS he struggled, then had a few very good minor league seasons, some of which could have been in the majors.
Some of those minor league seasons happened in the Pirates System at a time when the MLB team was TERRIBLE.
Some of those minor league seasons happened in the Pirates System at a time when the MLB team was TERRIBLE.
In his age-33 season, Sam Jethroe won NL Rookie of the Year and took the league by storm with speed, gap power, and a 150 OPS+
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
He also got ditched AS SOON AS he struggled, then had a few very good minor league seasons, some of which could have been in the majors.
Some of those minor league seasons happened in the Pirates System at a time when the MLB team was TERRIBLE.
Some of those minor league seasons happened in the Pirates System at a time when the MLB team was TERRIBLE.
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
I always prefer to blame the neoliberals, right wingers, university and college trustees and administrators, collaborators, and other folks who actually possess real power for the terrible shape academia is in
Just my two pennies 😂
Just my two pennies 😂
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I always prefer to blame the neoliberals, right wingers, university and college trustees and administrators, collaborators, and other folks who actually possess real power for the terrible shape academia is in
Just my two pennies 😂
Just my two pennies 😂
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
The difference between me and my resentment and them other resentful “Austins” in/adjacent to academia is I know who to blame when it comes to
the jobs crisis & scarce research funding & it’s not progressives, leftists, women, Black folks, people of color, LGBTQIA folks, disabled folks, etc etc.
the jobs crisis & scarce research funding & it’s not progressives, leftists, women, Black folks, people of color, LGBTQIA folks, disabled folks, etc etc.
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 AM
The difference between me and my resentment and them other resentful “Austins” in/adjacent to academia is I know who to blame when it comes to
the jobs crisis & scarce research funding & it’s not progressives, leftists, women, Black folks, people of color, LGBTQIA folks, disabled folks, etc etc.
the jobs crisis & scarce research funding & it’s not progressives, leftists, women, Black folks, people of color, LGBTQIA folks, disabled folks, etc etc.
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
As discussed on this week’s episode, look at these lovely cards from Briggs Card Co.! Thanks to long time listener @timbriggshere.bsky.social for these custom cards celebrating our record* breaking 250th episode!
*most podcast episodes about 1988 Topps cards…we assume this is a record
*most podcast episodes about 1988 Topps cards…we assume this is a record
February 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
As discussed on this week’s episode, look at these lovely cards from Briggs Card Co.! Thanks to long time listener @timbriggshere.bsky.social for these custom cards celebrating our record* breaking 250th episode!
*most podcast episodes about 1988 Topps cards…we assume this is a record
*most podcast episodes about 1988 Topps cards…we assume this is a record
Anyone out there teach at an independent/private school? If so, I would love to talk to you (for my own purposes, I am not a journalist).
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Anyone out there teach at an independent/private school? If so, I would love to talk to you (for my own purposes, I am not a journalist).
If I were an Olympic athlete (ha!) I would not be on any promotional material. Have any of them (malinin, Vonn, Shiffrin, Kim) done what was expected of them?
It's a curse!
It's a curse!
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
If I were an Olympic athlete (ha!) I would not be on any promotional material. Have any of them (malinin, Vonn, Shiffrin, Kim) done what was expected of them?
It's a curse!
It's a curse!
But in the meantime everyone will lose their job so it will be ok...
the entire internet is going to break piece by piece because AI written code fails and causes bugs, and it's going to take so much time to try to fix it that it's basically quicker to start from scratch. companies are putting themselves in technical debt (ie it will take so much time to fix shit)
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
But in the meantime everyone will lose their job so it will be ok...
This would have been tempting...
Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This would have been tempting...
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
Happy Valentine’s Day!
February 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is the soccernomics guy?
Ooph.
I mean, who fantasizes about billions fewer people without being a sociopath?
Ooph.
I mean, who fantasizes about billions fewer people without being a sociopath?
Simon Kuper invites you to picture your street in 2100, 'presuming climate change hasn’t washed it away'.
Could the future inhabitant of your home, born in 2026, find life cornucopian? ft.trib.al/5DOQMXo
Could the future inhabitant of your home, born in 2026, find life cornucopian? ft.trib.al/5DOQMXo
February 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This is the soccernomics guy?
Ooph.
I mean, who fantasizes about billions fewer people without being a sociopath?
Ooph.
I mean, who fantasizes about billions fewer people without being a sociopath?
Reposted by Exploring Baseball History
👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.
January 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.