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The Yankees have acquired longtime Rockies infielder Ryan McMahon in exchange for LHP Griffin Herring (NYY #8) and RHP Josh Grosz (NYY #21)

McMahon is hitting to an 88 wRC+ with 16 HR and is signed through 2027.

Rich Hill Is Alive With the Sound of Scream-Grunts With songs he has sung for a thousand years.

The Rich Hill Experience is not to be missed.
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This dude plays as hard as anybody out there. Love to see him getting a shot.

Nobody in the game is doing it like @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social right now.

You won't find a more detailed recap of Kansas City's 2025 draft class than what I've put together here.

The depth of amazing players in women's tennis right now is a nice contrast to the way Sinner and Alcaraz are absolutely dominating the men's side.

Kansas City may be known for BBQ, but our taco scene is arguably just as strong. KCUR's Up To Date wants to hear from you: What Kansas City restaurants are serving the tastiest tacos in the metro?

I can't do the whole top ten albums thing because I'm currently obsessed with PUP and would have their entire discography in there because I'm the king of recency bias.

Legit the goated energy drink flavor, nothing else compares.

Kansas helpfully provides December stadium deadline for Chiefs and Royals to threaten Missouri with We all know by now that "a savvy negotiator creates leverage" is the basis for pretty much all sports team move threats: Whether an owner is seriously considering relocating or not, they'd be foolish ...

Stadium leverage ends up being a long game of chicken, where the two (or more!) sides issue ultimatums and hope no one calls their bluff. And while sports team owners aren't always good at this, all evidence is that elected officials are much, much worse.

Leaked footage from the Associated Press, shows United States security contractors, firing on unarmed Palestinians at food collection stations in Gaza.

But they want you to believe, Palestine Action Group, Bob Vylan and Kneecap are the problem

I wrote up Cam Cannarella, who has been one of my favorite college baseball players to watch over the past three years despite playing injured for two of them.

Evergreen post.

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

"Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. ... Our form of communication is gunfire."

Buy my book! It kind of is crucial to understanding the moment we’re in, if I say so myself:

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
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Jac Caglianone's second home run of the game which, according to the Royals broadcast, came off the bat at 84.3 mph with a 2 degree launch angle, traveling 47 feet.

Hmmm

Come for serious analysis of the Rafael Devers trade, stay for equally serious analysis of absurd Christian baby hypotheticals courtesy of Quora.

Compton seemed like a potential first rounder coming into the spring, had a down year but could still be a good get for somebody later on day one.

I wrote up Ethan Conrad, an outfielder for Wake Forest that could have played his way into the top half of the first round if not for a shoulder injury that ended his spring early.

In which Tom Walter (homophobia) and Kevin O'Sullivan (bullying) are added to my shit list.

Friday roundup: How real is the threat of a Royals or Chiefs move to Kansas, and other pressing questions Happy zeroth anniversary of that time we decided to all die of bird flu! It's a fitting way to go out, honestly. While we're still here, though, there's plenty of other stuff to keep getting wrong in the meantime: A company affiliated with the Kansas City Royals has bought the mortgage to a potential stadium...

Guys, you know that buying a mortgage isn't the same as buying land, right? Unless of course you're just looking for ways to get "Royals" and "Kansas" into a headline to throw a scare into Missouri, in which case, nice outside-the-box thinking there.

Happy Regional day to all who celebrate. Everything you need to know for the opening round of the baseball tournament is in this episode, have a listen.

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime

WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

Thanks for pointing this out, I got the score right in the body but biffed it on the headline!

Dealing in the desert.

45-year-old Rich Hill retires all 12 batters he faces, striking out 7, in his @Kansas City Royals organizational debut!

Every single ACL Cubs hitter he faced was not born when Hill was drafted by Chicago in 2002.

#RaisingRoyals👑

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

This is excellent. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

With Hyde out in Baltimore, that's three managers axed before Memorial Day. This feels like some sort of record but I can't find historical managerial firing data anywhere.

Missouri Republicans shut down Senate debate to pass abortion ban, repeal sick leave law • Missouri Independent Missouri Senate Republicans shut down a Democratic filibuster to overturn the abortion rights amendment passed by voters in November.

Missouri Senate Republicans invoked a rarely used rule to repeal the abortion rights amendment and the paid sick leave law approved by voters in November.

On both counts, the state GOP overturned the will of the people.

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