A non-separation of church and baseball; definitely a post about Nicholas Castellanos; seriously, a post about Nicholas Castellanos
A song from actual recordings of the bats and/or trash cans of the Houston Astros; Alex Cora got a tarot reading; Larry Walker and his Spongebob apparel are in the Hall
The Astros fallout news overshadowed another baseball scandal finally brought to light; baseball’s moral dualism continues; Alex Cora is in troubleeeeee
Cheating scandals, the baseballs, and AI shenanigans: is anything real anymore?; farewell LOOGYs; hearing the dead through the ballgame
Always play like Roberto Clemente; a story on the greatest day in Brooklyn Dodgers history; trying to break the habit of rooting for the Yankees; words on players liked for their words; Casey should have been IBB’d; we honest to goodness found the least watchable hitter in the game; beware the October buzzsaw
Tyler Skaggs, grief, and magical thinking; when opioid overdoses make you think of home; Trevor Rosenthal will (and did) record an out again; Willians Astudillo is in the zone; keeping up with all of the Jeff Joneses; the 2030 Front Office All-Star Game
Most teams’ logos and uniforms share a common goal – the Yankees are not most teams; Joe Manganiello and Sofía Vergara starred in a 2019 movie celebrating the beauty of minor league baseball; Rob Manfred will bring families together during the holidays
MLB The Show is going multi-platform for the first time, and that could be big; Baby Yoda reacts to the winter meetings; city flags symbolize a lot about MLB teams
Addison Russell’s non-tender lifts a weight off a chest; the story of Jacob “John” Atz, who needed to sue a league to keep his dream of going back to the majors alive; the Mets have won more recently than the Giants — the football Giants
At least more people now know Yu Darvish is really good on Twitter; the story of a baseball field in Arrey, New Mexico; finding hope in the potentially doomed minor league teams from the Cuban Giants and New York Gothams, who proved you don’t need major league affiliations to survive
What players and fans owe each other; the Padres are finally rectifying Steve Garvey’s wrong; remakes are bad but the “A League of Their Own” one has to, better be, good
Kurt Suzuki put in the work to succeed on the field, but not off it; the state of sports teams visiting the White House today (bad!); a good list of more productive things to do than tweet about the Nationals’ visit yesterday
Presidents have been booed at the World Series before; respect for Nationals Beer Guy; anybody watching these games?
The Astros are going to sweep the Nationals, according to an overlooked factor; baseball lost something with CC Sabathia’s retirement; Correa and Altuve’s walk-off celebrations were different, but equally great
Sanchez on Sánchez; fall is the true legend of the fall; why did the polar bear use a 50 oz. bat? Enough to break the ice, hi, I’m Short Relief…
The Uber heckle is still a weird one; an Atlanta fan feels as doomed and defiant as Budd; everyone should wear fun socks