Jesse Goldberg-Strassler

YES.

Also, a list of best towns that could have Vancouver but doesn't. 🚮

I'm filled with happy righteous anger because this is taking me back to pre AI days when listicles were put together solely for click bait. This is prime listicle click bait, and their grandparents should be proud of them.

For Wisconsin: they put Beloit on and left Appleton off. Mind-boggling.

If your list of great MiLB towns has Beloit but not Lansing or Grand Rapids, your judgement should be questioned.

Midland, Michigan, makes the list for the Dow Chemical Company... and it's the only Michigan city on the list?!

This is a bad list.

YouTube video by Crafting the Call Happy Birthday, Harry! The Harry Caray Broadcaster Breakdown

Today is Harry Caray's birthday, so @josh-suchon.bsky.social and I put together a full Harry broadcaster analysis: his early partnership with Gabby Street, finding out he was fired on the air, his season in Oakland, his arrival in Chicago, magical 1984, and onward.

youtu.be/k67j4I5fQ_4?...

@thatbootlegguy.bsky.social I appreciate your observations from the game today.

How can baseball connect of all Black history? The writer Pat Ellington Jr. shows [eyeblack] how Francisco Lindor and Ronald Acuña helped him reclaimed the fullness of Black history.

NEW: I spoke to the journalist and researcher Pat Ellington, Jr., whose singular work expands the fullness and depth of Black history through Francisco Lindor, Ronald Acuña, and the global impact of baseball.

issa very, very special BHM edition of [eyeblack]:

Yes! Pat is phenomenal.

New research uncovers interracial baseball in 1867 Ulster County A baseball scholar has found evidence that integrated games were once seemingly routine in the Kingston area, before the sport’s color line hardened.

Outstanding research on Black baseball in the 1860s, just around the corner from where I live (I used to live in the Rondout district of Kingston). www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

I'm 75% certain we did a Big Lugbowski Night years ago, since it was one of the GM's favorite movies.

You're on fire.

I just laughed out loud in researching 517 Day to see it falls on a Sunday Family Day this year.

Atlanta isn't the only city with an iconic cultural institution.

The worst thing is when all the defensive changes occur in the middle innings, and then none of those guys bat in the same spot in the lineup as the guys they replaced. This should be illegal.

Front Office Sports * @FOS X.com Mizuno honored Chris Sale for 17 years of loyalty to the Japanese brand with a custom sword.

Of all the players to give a sword to

Or in the Giants org.

Silly me to think that would be his low point and the rest of the show should see him start to turn his life around.

Register for March’s Diamond Stories

Register: kent-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What: SABR Women In Baseball Committee

Who: Laura Hirai, her journey being drafted in the WPBL

When: Saturday, March 7th

Time: 10-11am EST, 7-8am PST

Open to Everyone:
-SABR members
-Baseball fans
-You!

@jenramose.online why does Shrinking go out of its way to make sure I'll never ever like Jimmy?

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

This is fascinating science (and one of the many reasons I like Bluesky these days) about the first giant organism to live on the earth's land surface 400 million years ago: 25-foot-tall (!) pre-trees grown from "previously undescribed" organisms that are now completely extinct. What the hell!!

A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been “guerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made.

You can't erase history. Bravo James Millward wapo.st/4kT0GVX

The image shows the fish logo for the Fish Fry's, the Lake County Captains' newest alternate identity.

Yessssss, O'Connor owns.

Oh this is great!

I find the bench-calling-pitches thing interesting, but it's hardly new. College has done this forever, MLB has seen it on-and-off at time for decades.

Anyway, here's a delightful story about Mickey Mantle calling Whitey Ford's pitches in the 60s.

www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/06/f...

Two baby Eastern box turtles.

Background: I grew up with seven box turtles living in a corral in the backyard, next to the baseball/soccer field. Every couple of years, they would have babies, but we struggled to keep the babies alive. This year, however, the two babies are doing marvelously.

Two five-month-old Eastern box turtles.

My mother, baby box turtle photographer.

An aptly brilliant farewell from @barrysvrlugawp.bsky.social and WaPo Sports