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everything is increasingly intolerable all the time.

Whose Fault is a Lockout? An Investigation | Baseball Prospectus There were a lot of odd reactions to former executive director of the MLB Players Association Tony Clark resigning this week. Some had concerns that this meant the union was now going to be doomed in ...

My latest at @baseballprospectus.com is a response to a couple of really strange and prominent paragraphs from an ESPN feature reacting to what the MLBPA has to do post-Tony Clark.

How do MLB workers protect Latin players from Trump's ICE raids? By themselves. Front office staffers told eyeblack about keeping immigrant players safe while league guidance is minimal and "Manfred kisses Trump's ass."

*new* from me:

As pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, three front office staffers spoke to me about helping Latino baseball players and their families navigate an America ravaged by ICE raids.

They say guidance from MLB has been “minimal” so their teams are getting creative.

The Pros and Cons of the Dodgers' White House Visit | Baseball Prospectus Conducting a little ethical calculus.

The Pros and Cons of the Dodgers’ White House Visit
by Justin Klugh (@justinklugh.bsky.social)
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I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
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body cameras will expand ICE surveillance

expanding ICE surveillance will increase ICE's power and ability to do harm

we don't need more money for more surveillance

defund. abolish. invest in communities.

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

the tigers filing at $19m for skubal is just insanity. it would have been easy to give him an offer that at least recognizes and rewards his contributions. instead they filed a lowball number and will trash his performance in an arb hearing. what are we doing here?

DHS claims that Renee Nicole Good tried to run over the agents, but there is copious video footage and eyewitness testimony showing that to be a lie. Good was sitting in her stopped car. ICE officers screamed at her to move her car, she attempted to move, and they shot her multiple times through the windshield and the open driver side window. There were no warnings. There were no attempts to deescalate. Just an immediate resort to deadly force for the "crime" of blocking traffic. This killing reminds me of how, in 2023, a suburban Columbus cop killed a pregnant woman named Ta’Kiya Young by shooting through her windshield in a grocery store parking lot. Young was suspected of shoplifting, nothing more. The cop was actually indicted for murder but he walked after claiming that Young tried to run him down. The cops have a playbook. They know if they simply say "she was coming right at me" that a lot of people will buy it because a lot of people want to believe cops regardless of what the reality on the ground happens to be. The authorities in this country have been killing people with impunity for centuries, sometimes even when there has been clear video of it. This is the latest example of it.

Good was 37. She was an award-winning poet. She had a six year-old daughter whose father died in 2023 and now her mother has been murdered by Donald Trump's masked secret police force, after which the United States government and its allies in the media spent the day telling outrageous lies about her. I agree with them that an act of terrorism occurred yesterday, but it was perpetrated by the United States government, not Good. Don't let the government tell you that you're wrong about what you see with your own two eyes. America is lost. It's completely lost and it is marching deeper and deeper into darkness every day. We're past the point of mere elections fixing it. It's going to take the prosecution of scores if not hundreds of members of the current regime and the eradication of their evil and lawless works to even begin to put us on something resembling a path back into the light. Like, that's where we have to start to even have hope of a positive future. We cannot go back. We must forge a new path forward and through. Anyone who promises, with clarity and conviction, to do that has my support. Anyone without the courage to do so does not.

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MLB teams should each have a few games a year without the DH. because I think it would be funny.

hey @hockey-reference.com why does the sweater number history think ryan graves was a bruin? might be good to fix that but also genuinely i want to know how this happened i'm so curious

A question that people will be asking about way too many scientists from this era in future decades 🧪

They will never make me hate Pete Alonso!!!!

Would genuinely say baseball prospectus is not just the gold standard for baseball writing but sports writing in general. In addition to the wealth of resources in terms of stats/rosters/injury projections, it’s just been awesome to have well crafted writing that doesn’t lean on click bait

they were never going to stop at legislating bathrooms, they will not stop at legislating children, they most certainly will continue going for all of us. this is NOT a “distraction”

"AI" programs like chatgpt have zero intelligence going on, they do not know anything, they have never had a thought, they don't understand the things they say, they will tell you false information, they are not capable of verifying anything they tell you

this is SO cool

This. This is the fundamental issue. If the government can simply declare you outside the class of people who are entitled to due process, how do you prove otherwise?

PLEASE i miss that delicious nectar

I respectfully disagree with Holt. Musk's overt Nazi salute was not an act of "self-sabotage" because it has cost Musk NOTHING. It was a successful demonstration of impunity.

"To be clear, I bought the truck before he became a polarizing political figure." girl you bought it in 2024???? can we be fr

as someone who was raised Catholic (i am VERY lapsed), i've observed that many adult converts do not seem to understand the values of the church that i was taught were most important.

not sure if Manfred or anyone has actually thought that through, or whether this is something the MLBPA has on their radar, but there's going to be an increasing number of days in the future where playing baseball outside is not a healthy or safe thing to do.

a couple years ago i theorized that they may not want to make an objective, AQI-based policy for air quality postponements because they wouldn't want to establish a standard that would make it too hard to play a full season with minimal schedule disruption and extra costs.

one thing i would like to see more people talking and writing about is the way MLB is really not ready for the effects of climate change. extreme heat, hurricanes, flooding, wildfire smoke...

SO glad this article talks about the nhl because as someone who still lives and breathes the nhl, I’ve seen the nhl held up as proof that the salary cap is good when really it should be proof it doesn’t fucking work and also makes nhl free agency boring as shit

what i want to know is if ai writes the prescriptions who's doing the p2p call when the insurance company denies the prior auth

Sick of the Dodgers Signing all the Free Agents? Well, Get Off Your Butt and Do Something About It. I kept putting off writing about a salary cap because it’s a stupid idea.

Sick of the Dodgers Signing all the Free Agents? Well, Get Off Your Butt and Do Something About It.

Just gonna say it: no one should be starting brand new organizations right now. No funders should be giving millions to randos who say they're going to fight Trump.

Find organizations that are ALREADY DOING THE WORK and who are meaningfully accountable to a grassroots base.

Ask how you can help.