And with Merced Young approaching 100 pitches, King Pennyfeather will get up in the bullpen for Pittsburgh...

this is the greatest anyone has ever made "infielder catching a pop-up" look. jimmy rollins still can't believe it www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1m...

Finally some good news

Through half of one inning, the @pirates.com broadcast looks worse than the on-field product. Maybe white balance those cameras, you guys?

Every time Roansy Contreras gets DFA'd, a Pittsburgh street is cleared of snow. So that's three passable streets in the city right now. Be careful out there.

To bring nearly every remaining Negro League player out for this game and, after years of failing to properly recognize them, not introduce them individually, feels like a huge disservice. @ewpod.bsky.social

There's no cookie I associate more with the Bill Clinton impeachment than the SnackWells Devil's Food Cookie.

Health care activist Ady Barkan has died from complications of ALS, his wife Rachael announced

Does Josh Sborz have friendly muttonchops or is that just his natural beard growth?

If design historians don't refer to the bright pastel trends of the late 1980s through the mid 1990s as the Miami Subs School then what are we even doing out here?

In the last 18 hours, three people have asked me how often I think about the Roman Empire. It's creating a feedback loop and juicing the stats.

@emmabaccellieri.bsky.social The Soda Fountain entry on root beer should be a five-part series and possibly also a book.

@megrowler.bsky.social Recognizing that folks have differing opinions on how seriously to take expiration dates, the only food product for which the FDA mandates an expiration date is baby formula. I bet you could get at least three years out of that ketchup.

The animated, trio-themed, Karl Ravech-narrated AL West into that Baseball Tonight just ran was deeply and profoundly weird. Like, upsetting weird.

So far, I really like it here! Has the daily Paddington Bear Photoshop account made its way over yet?

If the Paddington Photoshop person is, shall we say, Twitter-committed (I feel the term of art should be Muskrat), please just don't tell me.

Things that blow out your @baseballreference.bsky.social rate limit:
1. Accessing too many pages too quickly
2. Writing a bot that accesses too many pages too quickly
3. Being employed by ESPN
4. Being me, just trying to look up Doug Mientkiewicz's 2008 numbers for no reason