I'm genuinely thrilled that U of Nebraska Press continues to do worthy baseball books, as it has for a few decades now. Go Huskers!

I suspect the prevalence of Southern states in the bottom third stems from youth sports funding being cut while football always gets what it wants.

The Founding Fathers may not have anticipated a lot of things -- automatic weapons, women voting, mass media -- but they certainly anticipated a president like our present one. What they didn't expect was a Congress willing to neuter itself or a Supreme Court granting him preemptive immunity.

In a quick glance I thought that was Ghislaine Maxwell.

I'm not sure how to determine that a baseball player was using PEDs during his career, but a sustained and significant jump in performance as he enters his 30s after joining a team in the Bay Area (as in "Laboratory Co-Operative") is one potential indicator. Oh, and congrats to Jeff Kent!

I read Garp when it was new in hardcover, so yes I've been reading John Irving for a long time. Don't overlook the early books like "The 158-Pound Marriage" -- it's wonderful to follow a great writer as he discovers his talents.

The voting inroads will be significant. The only question is whether they'll actually be counted.

Oh dear, you're going to be up against games at night for both of those dates.

A little harvest from our Northern Irish backyard, all of which were blown off the tree by winds that make me glad I'm not playing golf in them. (Partridge jokes not welcome.)

I don't want to suggest that LinkedIn may not be the most cutting edge site on the Internet, but it just recommended to me that I connect with John Feinstein.

Tbh, I first thought you had posted a photo of a black-and-white cookie.

I was really hoping on Blue sky to discover something other than an endless stream of posts by The Tennessee Holler.

Spotted in the NYC subway, an unofficial addition to the rules and regs.

1. Fished.
2. Wilded.
3. Lived.
4. Serviced.
5. Administrated.

In pure sports terms, Josh Allen is Phil Mickelson but Patrick Mahomes is Tiger.

"g" for "ck" or missing "r"?

Since history insists on repeating itself, could we maybe get a little less Adolf you-know-who and a little more William Henry Harrison?

James Randi of Justin Herbert is brilliant, but you knew that.

There are many wonderful photographers on Bluesky. I'm not one of them. But on a recent trip, I was deeply impressed with the digital zoom on my Galaxy phone, as well as the industriousness of this little fellow. For context, those thick things on the plate are eggshells.

Now that my count of followers is up to a non-prime integer, I should probably think of something to post.

I know! A photo of the coolest athlete on the planet for the next 20 years.

Moon over Moorea.

My views, a week ago and today. Ain't travel grand?