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Seeing the Brewers unlock Andrew Vaughn like this sure makes it seem like the current White Sox organization still has no clue how to develop players.

OK, I don't think I can explain the incredible ever-increasing velocity in MLB better than this.

We just finished the 4th inning of tonight's Cubs-Brewers game.

This game has had 35 100 mph pitches. That's more than were thrown in the '08, '09 or '10 postseasons.

“You know what really aggravazes me? It’s dem immigants. They want all the benefits of living in Springfield, but they ain’t even bother to learn themselves the language”

Jim Thome hit a record 13 walk-off homers! 😮

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO?

#NOKINGS

Not enough consideration is made about how we don't know how many home runs Babe Ruth actually hit because a vast majority of his home runs took place before the ground rule double rule of 1931.

RIP. Seeing Manfred be forced to issue a statement pretending that the "Great Lakes Gang" didn't ouster Fay from his job just because they didn't like him is nauseating.

Fay's nickname was The Last Commissioner. Unfortunately for us and Manfred the title still resides with Fay.

A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make.

It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him.

(This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)

Open up the books.

Didn't realize Canseco was second to Hurricane in a strike shortened year.

In 2024, Shohei Ohtani shattered Herb Washington's record for most Stolen Bases in a season with zero defensive innings played.

Shout out to:
@stathead.com
@baseball-reference.com

1991 Fleer Ultra #59 Shawon Dunston baseball card. Dunston is photographed having just made a throw to first base to attempt a double play. Dunston's body is close to parallel to the ground, with his legs only slightly bent and his arms spread fairly straight to his sides. His head is up as he looks toward first base. Dunston has at least 3 feel of clearance between all parts of his body and the groun, and his head is at least 5 feet off the ground. For context, the complete bottom of his right cleat is visible, as it is facing almost directly toward the photographer. Tim Raines is seen sliding underneath Dunston, having gone into second base feet first while largely turning onto his stomach. Both of Raines' hands are on the ground and he's ducking his head down.

Look at this amazing card!

It's 1991 Fleer Ultra #59 Shawon Dunston.

And just for good mesaure, that's #30 Tim Raines sliding underneath.

Check out the alt text with the image if you'd you'd like to hear my description.

Number of times a Bears quarterback has been sacked 7+ times in a game *in his career*…

Bobby Douglass 5
Caleb Williams 4
Jim Harbaugh 4
Jay Cutler 3
Justin Fields 2
Jim McMahon 2

Can the Bears fire two head coaches in one season for awful clock management?

The best part about Bears games in primetime is how everyone on Twitter is like "oh my god this is the worst football game I've ever seen" while I'm just sitting there like "this is every Bears game of my entire life."

This continues to be true...

Ahead of his time, both in embracing weight training in baseball and for understanding the importance of walks.

Oh hey, why is everyone talking about Italians

it's probably good

The Los Angeles Dodgers are close to $1 billion in deferred salary obligations.

1989 Topps #465 Mark Grace baseball card. Includes gold cup for Topps All-Star rookie selection in 1988. Candid photo of Grace at the batting cage, watching a fly ball. Grace faces away from the camera, with his head turned to the right. He wears #53, a number he never wore in the majors. He wears a solid blue jersey, so the photo was probably taken during spring training 1988. He wears a solid blue Cubs batting helmet and short sleeves—more evidence that this photo was taken in warm and sunny Arizona!

Mark Grace:

-never had 200 hits in a season
- was successful on only 70/114 SB (61%)
- almost 200 career grounded into double plays

Those are the bad stats. Everything else is great (especially 1075 walks vs 642 strikeouts).

Can confirm.

Greg Luzinski (the fellow below) finished 2nd in the MVP vote in 1975 and 1977.

Those are higher MVP finishes than the following players, who never finished higher than third in a MVP race:

Tony Gwynn
Manny Ramírez
Mel Ott
Dave Winfield
Roberto Alomar
Nolan Arenado

Smoky had some serious drip...(I believe I'm using the term correctly?)

picture of the 1908 Chicago Cubs posting for a photo with the original Cubs mascot. It is standing on hind legs and resembles a furry rat.

post a defunct mascot who haunts your dreams

I usually ask myself the opposite of this question ("Who's in but shouldn't be?), but guys who have stronger cases for enshrinement than most people realize: Lou Whitaker, Dwight Evans, Graig Nettles, Ken Boyer, and Andrew Jones.