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The Women’s Professional Baseball League Will Have A Home. (A ballpark, TBD.)

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The Women’s Professional Baseball League Will Have A Home.
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Cup of Coffee: March 21, 2025 What happened to MLB's Diversity Pipeline Program? Food at the Tokyo Dome, a travel warning, AI, Cybertrucks, financing burritos, anti-vaxxers, and The Big Crunch

The first story in today's newsletter is not-paywalled. It's an important one.

Major League Baseball's Diversity Pipeline Program has been erased from its website. There has been no explanation. MLB has enjoyed considerable good publicity from it for years, but now they've disappeared it. Why?

Slashing the Leather | Baseball Prospectus The easy fix for offense that no one is talking about.

I am absolutely taken with this idea. One of the underdiscussed things in the whole debate about too many HRs and strikeouts getting more action on the field is that defenses are so fucking good now. We need to factor that in to get back to a more dynamic product. Here's how:

Cruelty, Hype, And The American Way In Harry Stein's Baseball Novel 'Hoopla' | Defector A line about the experience of reading, possibly first spoken by the young actor Zoe Colletti in the 2019 film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, is that you don’t read a book, the book ...

Really good @stevengoldman.bsky.social stuff here, sort of about a forgotten baseball novel and sort of about a bunch of other stuff. Nobody else writes stuff like this. defector.com/cruelty-hype...

one federal employee's response

smiley and scary vastly overrated jonklers

The first thing I saw when I started working on tool guys was this and I love them

Ichiro is Baseball. ⚾️

At last year’s Mariners Spring Training, Ichiro showed up unannounced, by himself & casually did his thing.

When I asked why he was there, a Mariners staffer shrugged: “Oh, he just shows up whenever he wants.”

There were maybe 3 people watching.

home plate: home run recipes for when you can't run home!

if i get to heaven, will there be baseball?

women's baseball zine #2

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towards a more perfect game (women's baseball zine #1)

rambled about playing baseball

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svelte

november, november

dominican league here i come

i wouldn't want to play at home against the team that made a pact with the bog witch of corpus christi to win everything on the road, but that's just me

who up scrobbling they worm

Hi everyone let's talk about the Carlisle 52 series of cups, in particular the Carlisle 5216, a topic about which I am extremely normal. In my estimation, a triumph of thoughtful industrial design and is probably my favorite ever mass produced object. 🧵

The Trap I Refuse to be Recruited

"When I die, I hope it will be here in New York, the promised land, surrounded by my brothers: all the different peoples of the world." johnganz.substack.com/p/the-trap

in that instance, certainly, nobody will read you if you give them nothing to read.

i felt the same recently. i just have nothing i really want to say.

the whole world is gonna learn there was a baseball team in arizona this whole time

thank god i can release this horrible tension with the phillies doing bananaball cartwheels over the braves

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RRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCCEE LEWIS

i can't watch the good people of target field leave sad. i just can't

and now our big beautiful minnesotans simply have to swing - and get this - hit the ball. let's see if they remember how to do it

they just. kept chasing it low and outside. every time. man