I’ll believe it once the whole season has passed

I filled 10 spots. Pedroia and Wright are very close, I agree. I’m hoping spots open up in 2027 to give Wright a closer look.

Other than homers, the gap between Delgado and Adrian Gonzalez is not as big as you’d think it is.

One point on voting for 10: Look at any random ballot from before ~2018 or so, and you’d be hard-pressed to find one with fewer than 10 eventual Hall inductees on it, even if they didn’t all get in the same year.

We don’t have to select 10, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a single ballot from before 2018 without 10+ eventual Hall of Famers on it. The Hall is not as small as many people think.

It was kind of the other way — if Hamels cleared the bar, so too must the other three.

He was squeezed out because he has the more futile case in the long term.

*Four not two

It really is a lot of T’s.

All four I added were similar enough that it felt like I couldn’t vote for one without voting for all four.

Hall of Fame ballot: Abreu, Beltran, Buehrle, Hamels, Hernandez, Jones, Pedroia, Pettitte, Rodriguez, Utley.

In the mail. Did some serious rethinking about standards for starting pitchers. In case it’s not obvious, Ramirez was a strategic drop, based on the limit of 10.

You’ll be visited by three spirits

The three spirits

No. 18 overall pick in 2011 — he came off the board just before the first of four Red Sox picks in that memorable first round (Matt Barnes, No. 19 overall).

Alex.

Thinking about this took me to the RF JAWS board, and I did not expect this:

It’s telling that the Devers camp drops this detail *now*, despite weeks of opportunity to set the record straight, since now there’s zero chance of Devers being held to it.

Is that a 2 liter bottle?

Amazing news — congratulations!

Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side

holy crap a friend just sent me this, dude was randomly on the fox broadcast of game 1 of the '05 world series

Whoever emerges victorious will be able to pontiflex

The only acceptable answer format is a listicle

We’ll fight the break of law

“are turning”?

“have become”?

This was a terrific writeup.

Is that Rob Leary?

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Seven-digit phone numbers!

@reynoldsgareth.bsky.social @daveanthony.bsky.social Hilarious Past Times this week. Well done.

Slow it down, put it on ice