Todd Kistler
@toddkistler.bsky.social
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Truthfully, the sooner we stop thinking of it as ”college” sports and more as “minor league“ sports, the better we’ll be. There’s really no connection between the players and the larger student body or traditions any longer.
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Truthfully, the sooner we stop thinking of it as ”college” sports and more as “minor league“ sports, the better we’ll be. There’s really no connection between the players and the larger student body or traditions any longer.
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It’s a nitty thing, but language matters and I’d like to see the language of college sports updated. It’s not the “portal“; it’s free agency. They’re not ”transfers”: they’re free agents. No one is getting “recruited“ any more. They’re being signed to one-year contracts for good money.
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It’s a nitty thing, but language matters and I’d like to see the language of college sports updated. It’s not the “portal“; it’s free agency. They’re not ”transfers”: they’re free agents. No one is getting “recruited“ any more. They’re being signed to one-year contracts for good money.
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Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
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Bostoo Yook Yarters (Cubs)
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Bostoo Yook Yarters (Cubs)
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This Post Reports episode featuring a doctor and patient navigating vaccine skepticism is a testament to the power of human connection and the importance of trusted voices in our misinformation era.
An AI-generated "podcast" could never measure up. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
An AI-generated "podcast" could never measure up. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
The biggest shift yet in U.S. vaccine policy - The Washington Post
An influential advisory panel has recommended dropping the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. This doctor is already seeing the consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This Post Reports episode featuring a doctor and patient navigating vaccine skepticism is a testament to the power of human connection and the importance of trusted voices in our misinformation era.
An AI-generated "podcast" could never measure up. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
An AI-generated "podcast" could never measure up. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
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All-Star and Gold Glover Pete Crow-Armstrong is going to suit up for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
All-Star and Gold Glover Pete Crow-Armstrong is going to suit up for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.
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Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
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Game-tying home runs to tie a game in the 9th inning of World Series Game 7:
Miguel Rojas tonight
End of list!
Miguel Rojas tonight
End of list!
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Game-tying home runs to tie a game in the 9th inning of World Series Game 7:
Miguel Rojas tonight
End of list!
Miguel Rojas tonight
End of list!
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The winner of this game will travel to Toronto to play Vladimir Guerrero III and the Blue Jays.
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The winner of this game will travel to Toronto to play Vladimir Guerrero III and the Blue Jays.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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This is great, as you’d expect
The voice of Ozzy Osbourne was unlike anything before it. John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social reflects on the loss of the singular frontman
Ozzy Osbourne Obituary: For the Back Street Kids
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats reflects on the loss of the singular frontman.
pitchfork.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is great, as you’d expect
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Our favorite kind of fireworks show.
July 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Our favorite kind of fireworks show.
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On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.
June 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.
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Sure, why not. Full disclosure: I've never used ChatGPT in any component of my professional output, or for personal amusement, and I never will. It is an intellectual carcinogen and my disdain for it and its advocates is absolute.
Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sure, why not. Full disclosure: I've never used ChatGPT in any component of my professional output, or for personal amusement, and I never will. It is an intellectual carcinogen and my disdain for it and its advocates is absolute.
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Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.
This is insanity.
Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.
This is insanity.
February 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.
This is insanity.
Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.
This is insanity.
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Greatest sports profile ever written, I don't even want to hear another suggestion
one of my favorite features lamag.com/news/23-reas...
January 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Greatest sports profile ever written, I don't even want to hear another suggestion
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What rough beast
Its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Our panel discusses
As part of our continuing coverage
Today on CNN
Its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Our panel discusses
As part of our continuing coverage
Today on CNN
January 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What rough beast
Its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Our panel discusses
As part of our continuing coverage
Today on CNN
Its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Our panel discusses
As part of our continuing coverage
Today on CNN
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RIP Bob Uecker. Never forget the time he and Bob Gibson got in trouble for holding hands during the team photo.
January 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
RIP Bob Uecker. Never forget the time he and Bob Gibson got in trouble for holding hands during the team photo.
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It’s closing time for Billy Wagner’s Hall of Fame case — and he’s feeling the weight of the wait www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...
It’s closing time for Billy Wagner’s Hall of Fame case — and he’s feeling the weight of the wait
The seven-time All-Star closer missed induction to Cooperstown by just five votes in 2024, his ninth year on the ballot.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s closing time for Billy Wagner’s Hall of Fame case — and he’s feeling the weight of the wait www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...