Steven Goldman
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Casey Stengel biographer. Shanty Hogan chronicler. Infinite Inning podcast host. Baseball Prospectus author and Consulting Editor. Collector of far too many books. | https://www.baseballprospectus.com/show/the-infinite-inning/
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Steven Goldman
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· Nov 12
Infinite Inning Episode 306: A pitcher goes through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a catcher suffers, the William Tell Overture is played on the harmonica but no strikeouts are recorded, and somehow this tells us something about where to go from here. www.baseballprospectus.com/podcasts/inf...
Infinite Inning 306: The Pitcher Who Refused to Go Home | Baseball Prospectus
After the week we’ve had, we’re all once again in the Infinite Inning, but is there a way out? Follow along the winding path as a Yankees ace puts his head through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a...
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Hey! I'm Steve. My podcast is The Infinite Inning, which combines baseball, history, politics, and culture. My books are Forging Genius, on the early career of Casey Stengel, and Baseball's Brief Lives, biographical essays. Between, there's been a whole lot of my beloved home, Baseball Prospectus.
Snoopy.
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Which Fictional Character Would You Hate To See Go MAGA? | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Snoopy.
It may turn out to be spectacularly ironic that I wrote this piece today...
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It may turn out to be spectacularly ironic that I wrote this piece today...
I keep looking at this beautiful thing and thinking, "And how much of it was done by AI? Not a bloody jot. Everything that went to the printer was done by hand." (Gift link.)
Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $9.12 Million
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I keep looking at this beautiful thing and thinking, "And how much of it was done by AI? Not a bloody jot. Everything that went to the printer was done by hand." (Gift link.)
Due to new regulations, CM Jr. is no longer allowed to "swat the swastika" if it happens to be seen on or around a Coast Guard vessel...
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Due to new regulations, CM Jr. is no longer allowed to "swat the swastika" if it happens to be seen on or around a Coast Guard vessel...
It turns out the dozens of Marvel Comics stories over the years in which Nazis like the Red Skull quietly insinuate themselves into the leadership because Americans would never just go Nazi on their own gave us way too much credit.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It turns out the dozens of Marvel Comics stories over the years in which Nazis like the Red Skull quietly insinuate themselves into the leadership because Americans would never just go Nazi on their own gave us way too much credit.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
I love my hard-of-hearing podcast transcriptions. "He never walked anyone, led the league in Wauks for nine innings
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I love my hard-of-hearing podcast transcriptions. "He never walked anyone, led the league in Wauks for nine innings
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
twice... You had Christy Matheson, Sae Young, Gettysburg, Eddie Plank, Rubwa Dell..."
I need to know more about Rubwa Dell and what he did to earn that nickname. Prosecutable offense?
"The heart wants what it wants," someone once says to me right before they signed Josh Naylor to a five-year contract.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"The heart wants what it wants," someone once says to me right before they signed Josh Naylor to a five-year contract.
In which two Giants get banned for the dumbest, most obvious, clearly illegal post-1919 attempt to bribe an opponent.
The Dumbest One ‘Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet
by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
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by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
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The Dumbest One 'Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet | Baseball Prospectus
With Emmanuel Clase out of the country and seemingly unlikely to return, we may never know what motivated him to participate in an alleged scheme to sell off over 100 individual pitches to gamblers,…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In which two Giants get banned for the dumbest, most obvious, clearly illegal post-1919 attempt to bribe an opponent.
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I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today's newsletter is free.
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
I don't always cover small transactional news, but I do sometimes, when it seems fun.
That and 4000 words worth of other stuff, five days a week, all year long. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Over @baseballprospectus.com, where we have all the baseball coverage plus 37 flavors of ice cream, I wrote about one of the game's more inexplicable gambling scandals 'til this current one-the O'Connell/Dolan Affair. Give it a read, if you dare. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
The Dumbest One 'Til Now: Two Goats and a Horsehide Hamlet | Baseball Prospectus
With Emmanuel Clase out of the country and seemingly unlikely to return, we may never know what motivated him to participate in an alleged scheme to sell off over 100 individual pitches to gamblers, n...
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Over @baseballprospectus.com, where we have all the baseball coverage plus 37 flavors of ice cream, I wrote about one of the game's more inexplicable gambling scandals 'til this current one-the O'Connell/Dolan Affair. Give it a read, if you dare. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
From 1924. Specifics (a La Follette-looking guy trying to walk in TR's backwards shoes) aside, it's sorta depressing that putting on your shoes backwards and walking into yourself is the eternal story of liberalism in America sans some discrete periods like 1933-1937 or so.
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
From 1924. Specifics (a La Follette-looking guy trying to walk in TR's backwards shoes) aside, it's sorta depressing that putting on your shoes backwards and walking into yourself is the eternal story of liberalism in America sans some discrete periods like 1933-1937 or so.
Reposted by Steven Goldman
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Pundits scolding everyone mad at Chuck Schumer...
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pundits scolding everyone mad at Chuck Schumer...
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Dear Lord, STOP TALKING DOWN TO US.
It it unbelievably easy to see what happened here. There are only a handful of plausible scenarios and none of them cast Schumer in a good light.
People are mad for a reason. Feck off.
Came across a review of this novel while spelunking 1939-1940 newspapers. Oddly timed wish fulfillment then and struck me the same sort of way now... but someday!
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Came across a review of this novel while spelunking 1939-1940 newspapers. Oddly timed wish fulfillment then and struck me the same sort of way now... but someday!
This week's Infinite Inning: A typical day of baseball yields to a night of murder, with a young life inexplicably snuffed out due to a young man who had never acted out before or after. A look back at May 8, 1949 on and off the field: www.spreaker.com/episode/infi...
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This week's Infinite Inning: A typical day of baseball yields to a night of murder, with a young life inexplicably snuffed out due to a young man who had never acted out before or after. A look back at May 8, 1949 on and off the field: www.spreaker.com/episode/infi...
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
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I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
Final score from Washington: Dictatorship 9, Democrats 0.
Cornyn just voted yes. There we go.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Final score from Washington: Dictatorship 9, Democrats 0.
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On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE.
The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."
The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE.
The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."
The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."
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It’s not that fucking difficult. Don’t give the Cabaret villains what they want.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It’s not that fucking difficult. Don’t give the Cabaret villains what they want.
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Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.