Jay Jaffe
@jayjaffe.bsky.social
Senior writer at @FanGraphs.com, formerly SI.com and Baseball Prospectus, creator of JAWS, author of The Cooperstown Casebook (2017). Not sticking to sports or paying $8.
seatbelts are woke, fly through the windshield headfirst to own the libs.
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
seatbelts are woke, fly through the windshield headfirst to own the libs.
fire him directly into the fucking sun
KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH
President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources
The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
fire him directly into the fucking sun
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Please read our baseball website!
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Please read our baseball website!
Important news on where the Richard Fitts
@JeffPassan tweeted
Full trade, per ESPN sources:
Boston Red Sox receive: Sonny Gray and cash
St. Louis Cardinals receive: LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts
Full trade, per ESPN sources:
Boston Red Sox receive: Sonny Gray and cash
St. Louis Cardinals receive: LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Important news on where the Richard Fitts
new @fangraphs.com: the final entry in my Era Committee ballot series, Roger Clemens. Revisiting and reworking this one for the first time in half a decade was a trip.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Roger Clemens blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Roger Clemens
As with Barry Bonds, the Rocket’s stratospheric statistics and achievements have been overshadowed by his links to PEDs.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
new @fangraphs.com: the final entry in my Era Committee ballot series, Roger Clemens. Revisiting and reworking this one for the first time in half a decade was a trip.
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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Everything you need to follow the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker:
The Tracker team: @tonycal.bsky.social @shutthedore.bsky.social, @notmrtibbs.com
The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi
Quick Tracker Summary/Leaderboard: bit.ly/hof26
The ballot:
The Tracker team: @tonycal.bsky.social @shutthedore.bsky.social, @notmrtibbs.com
The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi
Quick Tracker Summary/Leaderboard: bit.ly/hof26
The ballot:
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Everything you need to follow the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Tracker:
The Tracker team: @tonycal.bsky.social @shutthedore.bsky.social, @notmrtibbs.com
The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi
Quick Tracker Summary/Leaderboard: bit.ly/hof26
The ballot:
The Tracker team: @tonycal.bsky.social @shutthedore.bsky.social, @notmrtibbs.com
The full Ballot Tracker: tracker.fyi
Quick Tracker Summary/Leaderboard: bit.ly/hof26
The ballot:
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
Mallrats had enough cultural currency among my friends — I lost count of how many times I watched it — that I don't think I ever knew it was such a box office flop. Anyway, entertaining as hell to revisit here.
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
www.theringer.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mallrats had enough cultural currency among my friends — I lost count of how many times I watched it — that I don't think I ever knew it was such a box office flop. Anyway, entertaining as hell to revisit here.
gosh but she did it so professionally nobody noticed...
“Lindsey Halligan, who Trump named the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in September, had ‘no lawful authority to present the indictment’ against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in her opinion.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
gosh but she did it so professionally nobody noticed...
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intentionally Forgetting Some Guys
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
intentionally Forgetting Some Guys
I always really loved Jimmy Cliff’s cover of Cat Stevens’ Wild World, which I found on a cassette of a 1976 live album (In Concert) that in college was one of my favorites to come home and chill out to after a night out youtu.be/wDmSZr9FPO4?...
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I always really loved Jimmy Cliff’s cover of Cat Stevens’ Wild World, which I found on a cassette of a 1976 live album (In Concert) that in college was one of my favorites to come home and chill out to after a night out youtu.be/wDmSZr9FPO4?...
Aw man, RIP. First learned about Cliff when Bruce Springsteen covered Trapped in ‘85, then saw The Harder They Come as a midnight movie as a college freshman a few years later. That soundtrack and his catalog haven’t left my play pile. Banger after banger.
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Aw man, RIP. First learned about Cliff when Bruce Springsteen covered Trapped in ‘85, then saw The Harder They Come as a midnight movie as a college freshman a few years later. That soundtrack and his catalog haven’t left my play pile. Banger after banger.
This week in our members-only mailbag, I answered a Pete Rose/Hall of Fame question
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This week in our members-only mailbag, I answered a Pete Rose/Hall of Fame question
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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New @fangraphs.com: He’s baaaack. 7th of 8 profiles in my Era Committee series. Last one (Roger Clemens) will go Monday.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Barry Bonds blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Barry Bonds
The all-time home run leader is up for consideration again, and the Hall has introduced a new twist that could eventually take his candidacy out of circulation.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
New @fangraphs.com: He’s baaaack. 7th of 8 profiles in my Era Committee series. Last one (Roger Clemens) will go Monday.
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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Zohran traded his guitars in for turntables and trump has never been to a Can show.
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Zohran traded his guitars in for turntables and trump has never been to a Can show.
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Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
Suddenly the special election in TN-07 becomes potentially hugely consequential. It shouldn’t be competitive, but if Democrats steal it, when Greene resigns the Republican majority will be down to 218-216 w a sure Dem seat with no special scheduled in Texas.
Just catching up; what’s the significance of Jan 5? Does waiting until then affect when the special will be scheduled?
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
The subject of this might be more wholesome than whatever you’re about to read.
New @fangraphs.com: He’s baaaack. 7th of 8 profiles in my Era Committee series. Last one (Roger Clemens) will go Monday.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Barry Bonds blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The subject of this might be more wholesome than whatever you’re about to read.
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
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“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
Movie night at Casa COVID, introducing the kiddo to the wonders of Gene Wilder
a man in a purple coat and top hat talks to a woman in a polka dot dress
ALT: a man in a purple coat and top hat talks to a woman in a polka dot dress
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Movie night at Casa COVID, introducing the kiddo to the wonders of Gene Wilder