Ran into this lady (who was a child at the time) in 2005 in the Houston airport: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_...
Only reason I recognized her was bc we’d seen this doco in IMAX at the Bullock museum in Austin, TX the day before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
Only reason I recognized her was bc we’d seen this doco in IMAX at the Bullock museum in Austin, TX the day before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Ran into this lady (who was a child at the time) in 2005 in the Houston airport: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_...
Only reason I recognized her was bc we’d seen this doco in IMAX at the Bullock museum in Austin, TX the day before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
Only reason I recognized her was bc we’d seen this doco in IMAX at the Bullock museum in Austin, TX the day before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
We take Santa seriously here.
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We take Santa seriously here.
The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. This seems optimistic.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. This seems optimistic.
Hot take: Ep. 3 is as good as Rogue One, and both are better than anything else produced after 1983.
Current results
Empire Strikes Back is a runaway winner
After the original 3, only Rogue One joins its ranks
Empire Strikes Back is a runaway winner
After the original 3, only Rogue One joins its ranks
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hot take: Ep. 3 is as good as Rogue One, and both are better than anything else produced after 1983.
Opening night of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. For years I labored under the incorrect assumption that it was a good movie just because of the experience of first seeing it in a packed theater.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Opening night of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. For years I labored under the incorrect assumption that it was a good movie just because of the experience of first seeing it in a packed theater.
@willsmith.fun Hey Will, do you have a recommendation for a 4-bay home NAS? I’m currently running a 10yo PC as my file/media server but would like to get something quieter/more efficient. Thanks!
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@willsmith.fun Hey Will, do you have a recommendation for a 4-bay home NAS? I’m currently running a 10yo PC as my file/media server but would like to get something quieter/more efficient. Thanks!
For the record, my name is Warren.
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
For the record, my name is Warren.
Once again, I’m a @jayjaffe.bsky.social stan. I love you all equally though @fangraphs.com!
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Once again, I’m a @jayjaffe.bsky.social stan. I love you all equally though @fangraphs.com!
Man fuuuuuck this. I hate that guy. I mean, if the choice is him or the Hitler Youth that’s there now, maybe I start to waiver. But I’d really rather not have to hold my nose when rooting for my team.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Man fuuuuuck this. I hate that guy. I mean, if the choice is him or the Hitler Youth that’s there now, maybe I start to waiver. But I’d really rather not have to hold my nose when rooting for my team.
I think Chuck Finley might be my cutoff. If you’re better than Chuck, you belong in the Hall.
Born on this date: Cal Raleigh, Matt Carpenter, Chuck Finley, Bob Johnson, Bob Elliott, Fred Tenney... see more: https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi?month=11&day=26
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I think Chuck Finley might be my cutoff. If you’re better than Chuck, you belong in the Hall.
“I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.”
mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
Giamatti: The Green Fields of the Mind
Joan Daugherty's personal home page.
mason.gmu.edu
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.”
mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
@dszymborski.fangraphs.com Not sure if this is your bailiwick, but is there a reason I’m not able to see the WAR column for the World Series on the leaderboard? I saw someone else sharing a screen cap that had values there, but it was a Twitter rando so they may have been making up stuff.
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
@dszymborski.fangraphs.com Not sure if this is your bailiwick, but is there a reason I’m not able to see the WAR column for the World Series on the leaderboard? I saw someone else sharing a screen cap that had values there, but it was a Twitter rando so they may have been making up stuff.
I, a lifelong Dodger fan, enjoyed that series.
October 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I, a lifelong Dodger fan, enjoyed that series.
While I appreciate that Fox didn’t put Pierzinski and Wainwright on the Cubs series, would it have been too much to ask to put them on Yankees/Jays series so I could avoid them entirely?
October 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
While I appreciate that Fox didn’t put Pierzinski and Wainwright on the Cubs series, would it have been too much to ask to put them on Yankees/Jays series so I could avoid them entirely?
@enosarris.bsky.social @dbrim.com I’ve been hunting around on Savant trying to figure out the exact height of the pitch from the ground, but I can’t seem to find it. Am I just imagining that they used to have that data?
These graphics are apparently not batter height adjusted which raises the question: why draw a box in the first place when the box is meaningless?
October 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@enosarris.bsky.social @dbrim.com I’ve been hunting around on Savant trying to figure out the exact height of the pitch from the ground, but I can’t seem to find it. Am I just imagining that they used to have that data?
@mikepetriello.bsky.social Hey Mike, is there a place in Savant where I could see the height of the pitch Bogaerts K’d on vs. Keller last night? I’m having a hard time finding the XY coordinates. Thanks!
October 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@mikepetriello.bsky.social Hey Mike, is there a place in Savant where I could see the height of the pitch Bogaerts K’d on vs. Keller last night? I’m having a hard time finding the XY coordinates. Thanks!
I met David Forst at a Baseball Prospectus meet & greet at the Coliseum about 13 years ago. It’s shocking how much the time and (probably) the job has aged him.
September 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I met David Forst at a Baseball Prospectus meet & greet at the Coliseum about 13 years ago. It’s shocking how much the time and (probably) the job has aged him.
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social At the Cubs game, thought of you.
September 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social At the Cubs game, thought of you.
I can’t really put into words how much Fangraphs means to me. We’re living through dark times. Every day they light a candle.
FanGraphs Turns 20 Years Old Today! blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-tu...
FanGraphs Turns 20 Years Old Today!
Where does the time go?
blogs.fangraphs.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I can’t really put into words how much Fangraphs means to me. We’re living through dark times. Every day they light a candle.
Farthest I’ve been:
N: Vancouver, BC
E: Freeport, ME
S: Key West, FL
W: Ko Olina, HI
N: Vancouver, BC
E: Freeport, ME
S: Key West, FL
W: Ko Olina, HI
Farthest I've been:
N: Alta, Norway
E: Helsinki, Finland
S: St. Kitts
W: San Francisco
N: Alta, Norway
E: Helsinki, Finland
S: St. Kitts
W: San Francisco
Farthest I’ve been:
N: Fort Frances, ON
E: Venice, Italy
S: Miami, FL
W: Ocean Shores, WA
N: Fort Frances, ON
E: Venice, Italy
S: Miami, FL
W: Ocean Shores, WA
August 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Farthest I’ve been:
N: Vancouver, BC
E: Freeport, ME
S: Key West, FL
W: Ko Olina, HI
N: Vancouver, BC
E: Freeport, ME
S: Key West, FL
W: Ko Olina, HI
I hate the Marquee scorebug. They don’t put the batter’s name on it until a pitch has been thrown, and then take it away as soon as he makes contact. Minimum 3 times a game I look up to see who got a hit and it’s already gone. Nobody else has this issue. How do you fail at such a basic thing?
August 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I hate the Marquee scorebug. They don’t put the batter’s name on it until a pitch has been thrown, and then take it away as soon as he makes contact. Minimum 3 times a game I look up to see who got a hit and it’s already gone. Nobody else has this issue. How do you fail at such a basic thing?
Preller is just addicted to the rush of trading someone. You go to his house and his dog is now a couple of lemurs. His Mercedes is gone and he has four mid-2000s Corollas and a John Deer tractor. His wife is a Jewish guy named Abe and his kids are the Somali pirate from the meme.
The reactions to Shohei leaving his start early last night were telling. The Padres went, “Fuck it. They are ripe to be beaten let’s go for it.” The Cubs went, “Our plan to trade middling prospects for half assed pitchers might work!”
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Preller is just addicted to the rush of trading someone. You go to his house and his dog is now a couple of lemurs. His Mercedes is gone and he has four mid-2000s Corollas and a John Deer tractor. His wife is a Jewish guy named Abe and his kids are the Somali pirate from the meme.