Honestly, maybe the team that employs noted McDonald’s stan Zack Wheeler should tell him to eat more pie.
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Honestly, maybe the team that employs noted McDonald’s stan Zack Wheeler should tell him to eat more pie.
Starting with the Netherlands and hoping I have stomach room for more.
Even though it was very mean of them to name the hot dog after Decoy Ohtani's breed.
Geopolitics aside, what hot dog are you getting
I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer.
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...
It's the best airport drink right?
It is a key distinction. Was paranoid throughout that I was going to write “slider” out of habit.
Lol bsky.app/profile/jake...
Everything is coming up @rjandersonwrites.com
Not going to be news here but the Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) country-funk-protest-party record he dropped on YouTube is wild (positive). youtu.be/QKHGmFvzjJ4?...
For a more blood-curdling instance: The D-backs bullpen! Run and hide! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
If you haven't already been reading the @baseballprospectus.com team previews, highly recommend. The visuals are such a strong, easy guide to visualizing each piece of a team. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Are the slides better now?!
A Bandwagon theory, investigated. bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...
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About 15 years ago, I visited Austin, Texas, for a journalism conference. You couldn’t shake a stick at a barbecue restaurant without spotting a magnet, bumper sticker or tie-dyed T-shirt imploring you (or someone) to Keep Austin Weird. It was a marketing slogan that innately but perhaps cynically understood the nature of how any appealing thing — a city, a business, a method of improving outcomes in a lucrative professionalized sport — gets recognized and rushed into mass production, eventually losing the original appeal in the process. The arc of anything that accumulates value bends toward standardization. Quirks get shaved off. The shoddy becomes sleek. Character becomes characteristic. Soon enough, all the coffee shops with decent cold brew have brushed concrete floors and a cardamom bun on offer, chalkboards printed machine-neat in sans serif fonts. Baseball versions of this happen all the time. It happened with catcher stances and the full windup and outfielder positioning and No. 2 hitters and the infield shift. It is happening with the new pitch boom and stuff metrics and first-pitch swings and fastball usage. Styles only make fights until someone figures out which one wins 50.1% of the time.
And after thinking about how to do this for a very, very long time, I did prove something to myself. Maybe not what I set out to.
Hope you'll follow me down the rabbit hole. bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...
Set out to prove that baseball's slides are just *better* these days.
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📈📈📈 stupefied freeze frames
that Josh Harrison play created one of the funniest baseball freeze frames
really good piece from @zcrizer.bsky.social here. Great piece, tbh. On slides, whether they're getting better, what "better" means, and the scourge (my characterization) of homogeneity:
Somewhere around the summer of 2023, I developed a nagging feeling that the slides in Major League Baseball games were better. By better, I didn’t mean cleaner or more fundamentally sound, but I recognize that was the most obvious way to understand the hypothesis. And by that reading, it was pretty universally dismissed as wrong. After enough raised eyebrows and blank looks, I started phrasing the question in a way didn’t besmirch my own baseball-watching credibility: “Do you think slides have gotten better or worse?” I remember asking one team’s TV play-by-play announcer, while chatting in a clubhouse, and getting a response he found self-evident: “Oh, definitely worse.”
If that sounds counterintuitive to you ... I understand. bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...
Are the slides better now?!
A Bandwagon theory, investigated. bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...
Dear Mom and Dad, I know what you’re thinking: what are we supposed to make of spring training? It can all feel pretty disconnected from the flow of regular-season baseball. Oh, and why am I writing you a letter instead of texting like normal? Well, there’s this nostalgia-maxxing trend on TikTok, so I decided to check it out. Screen time down, productivity up. The clubbie is going to show me how to buy a stamp; pumped to do that later.
At @dmagazine.bsky.social today, a little old-school correspondence on how to appreciate new-school spring training. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...
Dear Mom and Dad, I know what you’re thinking: what are we supposed to make of spring training? It can all feel pretty disconnected from the flow of regular-season baseball. Oh, and why am I writing you a letter instead of texting like normal? Well, there’s this nostalgia-maxxing trend on TikTok, so I decided to check it out. Screen time down, productivity up. The clubbie is going to show me how to buy a stamp; pumped to do that later.
At @dmagazine.bsky.social today, a little old-school correspondence on how to appreciate new-school spring training. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...
Oh god that comp comes up like 3 grafs into the pitchfork review so this isn’t interesting at all lol ignore me
Am I wrong to say they sound like Parquet Courts minus all the pretentiousness?
Bonus Bandwagon, making its debut on Ghost. 👀
A spring training study guide with points of interest including:
⚾️ The Astros' self-created Isaac Paredes conundrum
⚾️ Chase Burns' potential
⚾️ An elite nickname in the making for a Mariners prospect
bandwagon.ghost.io/an-early-spr...
Very extreme Twins prospect Emmanuel Rodriguez homered again today.
Wrote about him and his wild PECOTA projection in this morning’s Bandwagon. bandwagon.ghost.io/an-early-spr...
we love a well-written, free-to-read sports newsletter that switches from a bad platform to a good one, don't we folks
I found it very straightforward -- had easy integrations to import the archives and subscriber lists from Substack.
Unforeseen perk of switching platforms: The Bandwagon's background color now translates to the email newsletter. bandwagon.ghost.io
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