Matt Eddy

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#FilmNoir walk with Humphrey Bogart and Elisha Cook Jr. in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

I will never forget Josh Norris calling me in the first week of the 2022 MiLB season and telling me he had seen the best prospect he would see all year.

Jackson Chourio keeps living up to the hype.

Aaron Judge: 2025 Major League Player Of The Year Aaron Judge is BA's 2025 pick for Player of the Year after leading MLB in average, on-baseball percentage and slugging.

Aaron Judge is showing offensive performance that we've rarely seen in baseball history. For continuing that in 2025, he's Baseball America's Major League Player of the Year. [

@matteddyba.bsky.social details his historic season:

www.baseballamerica.com/stories/aaro...

Mr. Rogers & Mr. Stargell, 1980 Pittsburgh #Pirates

#Baseball

John Candy took this photo of Conan O'Brien while Conan was his tour guide at Harvard University in 1984.

10 MLB Prospects Who Caught Our Attention In September A Yankees righthander who pitched at three levels in 2025 after coming over from the Red Sox leads our September prospect roundup.

Among the most notable development arcs among @baseballamerica.com Minor League Players of the Year

Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz
Raudi Rodriguez
Brody Hopkins
Caleb Bonemer
Zach Cole

Plus five more 👇

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And Van Slyke, circa 1989 #Pirates

#Baseball

The Mets since June 12, when they were 21 over, best record in baseball:

38-55

The only NL teams with more losses since that day:

Rockies 64
Nationals 58

They had a worse record than the 44-48 Pirates after that date.

Unimaginable.

And that puts a lid on the 2025 Colorado Rockies.

They went 43-119, finishing with a mind-boggling -420 run differential.

With 10 HR and a .789 SLG in his last 23 games, Aaron Judge is now 11th among RF in JAWS and 4th in 7-year peak.

2025 Baseball America Minor League All-Stars Celebrating the top performances by prospects at every position by selecting Minor League Baseball All-Star teams

Minor league all-star week continues at @baseballamerica.com

We name our Minor League All-Star Teams, led by Player of the Year Konnor Griffin and Pitcher of the Year Jonah Tong

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42 years ago today
Minor Threat played its final show on September 23, 1983 at the Lansburgh Cultural Center in Washington.

3 years after the formation the band broke up after Brian Baker left and switched to Dag Nasty

#punk #punkrock #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory #otd

I have been listening to the latest Pelican album constantly while writing/editing.

Highly recommended if you like driving rock instrumentals with noisy but melodic guitar. So many great sound textures on this one.

It's Minor League Player of the Year season at @baseballamerica.com

We picked one POY for each of the 30 organizations

Read all about these up-and-coming prospects. Or in 11 cases: present-day big leaguers

The stories behind the best seasons 👇

You’re welcome. I heard them for the first time about 7 years ago. Their back catalog is strong too

I love the noisy, driving instrumental rock sound. Another favorite The Mermen

Any recs?

Wow! Thanks for the review. I was not familiar with the band, but I was hooked from the first notes.

I agree with this reviewer.

The new Pelican album is awesome

Chris Cornell's posthumous induction to the Rock Hall this year via Soundgarden is well deserved.

The other thing that strikes me about the Temple Of The Dog project is simply how central Andy Wood was to the entire early ’90s scene, even though he didn't live to see it

Soundgarden blossomed

Pearl Jam formed from the ashes of Mother Love Bone

Would? by Alice In Chains pays homage to Wood

The point is that writing Temple Of The Dog helped Cornell make the developmental leap to become one of the best rock songwriters of his era.

Soundgarden went 9x platinum in the ’90s, which is astonishing for a band that had only minimal commercial potential prior to Cornell writing TOTD

Along with all my favorite Soundgarden album cuts:

Holy Water, Searching and Mind Riot from Badmotorfinger

Let Me Drown, 4th Of July and Like Suicide from Superunknown

Overfloater and Boot Camp From Down On The Upside

Maybe this was Cornell's natural maturation as a songwriter, but then again it's probably no coincidence that after TOTD he he would go on to write Soundgarden's best songs, including

Rusty Cage
Outshined
Fell On Black Days
Black Hole Sun
Pretty Noose
Blow Up The Outside World
Burden In My Hand

Chris Cornell wrote Temple Of The Dog in early 1990 as a tribute to his late friend and roommate Andy Wood

This material brought out the best in Cornell in a way that he had not yet displayed with Soundgarden

His writing became more direct, more insightful, more tuneful

But let's face it: Hunger Strike draws its power from the vocal interplay between Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder

Cornell's acrobatic vocals contrast beautifully with Vedder's deep register

Vedder's entry on verse 2 gets me every time

🎵 I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence

But first a sidetrack:

Hunger Strike is my favorite ’90s rock song. I don't know that it's the *best* of the era, but it's my favorite, and it was written by Chris Cornell.

The song is simple, repetitive and powerful. Its lyrical allusions hint at the corrupting forces of money, power and greed

I have been listening to a lot of Chris Cornell's ’90s work lately.

In particular, I have been listening more closely to Temple Of The Dog than I have in maybe 30 years.

A few thoughts strike me, and one of those thoughts is that I was too dense to make some of these connections earlier.

🧵 cont'd

as Cal League playoffs begin, a quintet of Angels kids will have an opportunity to play in three professional championship series in the span of 13 months:
- Yokelvin Reyes
- Ubaldo Soto
- Brayan Vergara
- Marlon Quintero
- Hayden Alvarez

I saw Fugazi on their last tour in 2002. I was young then. I didn't realize that would be my last chance to see them. I would treat it with more reverence if I could go back in time and see them again.

Twins eliminate four-person pro scouting department: Sources The moves come about a month after the Pohlad family announced it ended its exploration of a sale.

I’ve never understood why baseball teams eliminate scouting positions. Their salaries are rounding errors for organizations that big and no team has ever gotten worse for having more information. Just so short-sighted. www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...