Erica Block

RIP Donna Jean - she and her talents are misunderstood by so many deadheads. My respect for her only grew once I came to know what working in all-male environments can be like.

World Series Ratings Show Half of Canada Watched Game 7 The World Series ended in heartbreak for the Blue Jays, but Canada’s Sportsnet ended the Fall Classic with unprecedented viewership.

Games 6 and 7 of the World Series will go down in history as some of the most impactful events ever in Canadian broadcasting. frontofficesports.com/world-series...

Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78 Donna Jean Godchaux, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead and provided vocals on an Elvis Presley hit, has died at the age of 78.

Rolling Stone obit on Donna Jean:

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

World Series Game 7 has gone into extra innings just *5* times!

1924: Senators beat Giants (12 innings)
1991: Twins beat Braves (10 innings)
1997: Marlins beat Cleveland (11 innings)
2016: Cubs beat Cleveland (10 innings)
2025: Dodgers beat Jays (11 innings)

(since 1907)

Last night I thought we might witness a failure-to-dislodge FARTSLAM resembling this one⬇️

6/19/2008: Prince Fielder hits an inside-the-park hr after the ball gets stuck in the outfield wall. Jays OF Alex Rios argues w/ the ump instead of making efforts to dislodge the baseball

I could have stayed for days looking thru the archives!

Babe Ruth Statue at Baseball HOF, 30 yrs apart

It had been 30 years since I had visited @baseballhall.org ! The research resource center there is phenomenal. Big h/t to HoF Library Director Cassidy Lent for her guidance and help w/ a few projects I have in the works 📚📂⚾️

I’m seeing a number of columns critiquing legal and accessible gambling, and leagues and teams for taking the money for partnerships Which is good!

I’m seeing no columns reflection on media organizations‘ partnerships with sports books and their role in the system. Which is less good!

proof! Zim looked 60-70 years old at any given time in his life

Mattingly's first trip to the World Series!

Should the #Mets offer Pete Alonso a long-term deal?

@dhenrytv.bsky.social gives his take and looks at contracts signed by other top-tier first basemen.

*New* Straight Outta Flushing episode! Watch it here⤵️
youtu.be/pW8r3AD_GWU

agreed!

# of Swinging Strikes (2025 ALDS):

TOR - 24
NYY - 50

1 IKF
1 Vladdy
1 Varsho
2 Springer
2 Clement
2 Kirk
2 Lukes
2 Straw
3 Schneider
4 Giménez
4 Berger

0 Goldschmidt
0 Caballero
3 Judge
3 McMahon
3 Wells
4 Bellinger
4 Grisham
5 Chisholm
6 Stanton
9 Rice
13 Volpe

Sketch of Diddy finding out he'd been sentenced to more than 4 years in prison. Behind him is a bailiff with a circle A instead of a badge on his chest.

this is hardly the most important piece of Diddy news today but it's pretty funny that the court sketch artist drew the Bailiff's badge as a circle A anarchist symbol

Various Great Philosophers and How They Would Feel About the Automated Ball-Strike System | Baseball Prospectus Gathering the greatest minds of two and a half millennia to embrace a little debate.

OK, here you go, the one topic in everyone’s mind this morning: How would the great minds of philosophy throughout history feel about an automated ball-strike system?

Cam Schlittler and his cat Arya

also a reminder that the Dude is a Cat Dad, and we salute him for it

Re: Sogard's double, Judge's throw to 2B clocked in at 73.2 mph. He didn't charge the ball, either

In the regular season, his throws to bases on similar plays almost always topped 90+mph

💯

unrelated: I love tuxedo cats and just noticed yours in your profile pic 🐾

Totally get your point. The run probably didn't matter, though who's to say how it might have shifted the momentum.

It's more on principle - Goldy wasn't going to get another at-bat. Like, why is Dominguez on the bench if that's not his spot

Yankees lineup no. 1 thru 4 last night were all former MVPs

Not pinch running for Goldschmidt is by far the worst judgement Boone displayed last night

I can't stop thinking about him since watching the new(ish) documentary on History Channel

Highly recommend it

2025 Mets were 0-70 when trailing after the 8th inning

All other 29 MLB teams had at least *one* late game comeback

@dhenrytv.bsky.social breaks it down on a NEW EPISODE of Straight Outta Flushing ➡️ youtu.be/mmTUH4bxZY8

YouTube video by New York Daily News Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

ASS omen

I felt it too

Diaz = Mets pitcher no. 6 in the game

10 = Mets record for pitchers used in a 9-inning game

Most ever = 11 pitchers (SF vs COL on 10/4/2015)

This is the second time this series and 63rd time in their careers that identical twins Tyler and Taylor Rogers have pitched in the same game

It will NEVER stop being incredibly cool

Baseball is the BEST

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.