Dr. Meredith Wills

This program includes 9 of the 20 #WorldBaseballClassic 🌎⚾️ countries:

Italy 🇮🇹
Great Britain 🇬🇧
Chinese Taipei 🇹🇼
Japan 🇯🇵
South Korea 🇰🇷
Czechia 🇨🇿
Australia 🇦🇺
Israel 🇮🇱
Netherlands 🇳🇱

Is Manfred about to create a fake “MLB Peace Prize”? 🤪

So you’re applying, right?

you know ball

Only MLB would try to hire ACTUAL SPIES (!!!), but offer intern salaries… 👀 🤦🏼‍♀️

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Trump Calls Groceries ‘A Hoax’ MOUNT POCONO, PA—Delivering a highly anticipated speech about the state of the economy, President Donald Trump doubled down this week on his claim that groceries were a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. ...

Trump Calls Groceries ‘A Hoax’

It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports

“I can’t think of anyone here who’d say that’s a good idea.”
- accidental crystallization of the zeitgeist, overheard at the Winter Meetings

At least they’re not awkward “K” misspellings.

I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home

Can’t believe that I didn’t award myself the SABR Peace Prize before I left the presidency. Embarrassing own goal.

The FIFA Peace Prize is like getting the Halliburton Humanitarian of the Year award

We will never be as good at this as Canadians… 😂🇨🇦⚾️

We do *NOT* need a norovirus outbreak three days before the Winter Meetings… 🤢

astronomy news! in the next two weeks, the ball that albert pujols hit off brad lidge in the 2005 nlcs is expected to pass by saturn

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Okay, who else will be at the Winter Meetings? 🙋🏼‍♀️

MLB Sent Memo to Players in August About Kalshi, Polymarket In a letter to players obtained by FOS, the league warned that its rules against gambling on baseball also apply to prediction markets.

New from me!

Late in the 2025 season, MLB sent a memo to players warning that investing in baseball "predictive markets" like Kalshi and Robinhood violated its gambling policy. Over at @frontofficesports.bsky.social, I dig into the ongoing legal debate around what even constitutes a sports bet.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Lost and found?

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

On mute, this looks like a scene from an Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas video.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Believe it or not, the decline in doubles and triples is 100% attributable to PCA.

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a...

funny thing about this is depending on the scale of the swing next year this might end being worse for republicans than striking down the maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

move slowly and build things

“I saw two survivors trying to flip a cruise ship—loaded with diamonds, bound for the United States—back over, so they could stay in the fight.”

We need the SCOTUS version of RoboUmps.