Only tangentially related, but those American flag-inspired jerseys are the most clownish things I’ve seen on a baseball field. The stars in the typography look like polka dots from afar. Yeesh.

Seconding Albert: you can get tastier results by salting early in the cooking process, than afterwards, which actually requires even more salt.

Donald Trump is all about Barry’s headlines the last couple days.

is explicitly stolen

I feel like I missed the boat with BP. When I started getting interested in baseball analysis in college, it was through “free” content like Rob Neyer on ESPN, and later FanGraphs when they launched. I never considered subscribing to a website at the time, so BP was out of my league. Now that I can afford to subscribe…

Yes! You are definitely safe from land subsidence. Since the ice sheet completely covered NH, you’re good to go, and you are correct about it rising. In that neck of the woods, the sheet got down past NH, and most of MA and RI. The image above shows the maximum southern extent of the ice sheet - the material it left…

For those who don’t click the Scientific American link, I will put on my geologist hat and whet your appetite: when the continental ice sheet extended south to about New York City in the last ice age, it depressed the crust it was sitting on. That caused the crust south of the ice sheet to warp up and rise - similar…

Yes! Jolie is back! Let’s keep her around this time! Love her work.

Benny Agbayani! That’s the second time in two days I’ve come across his name. For some reason yesterday I spent 10 minutes looking at the roster of the 2002 Red Sox. Perfect for a “Let’s Remember Some Guys” post.

Might as well just put this here...

Glad to hear RDU get a top pick in the airport draft. It is truly a pleasant airport to fly into/out of.

Massage Room is quite the alias.

Yeah, I like Ravech. But then again, I am part of the problem and don’t have cable!

Thames is clearly not concerned about the Communist conspiracy.

Would love to know what other Post-esque back page headlines were thrown around for the top image. “PATRIOT GAMING” is hard to beat.

Cost control. It’s a collectively-bargained way to stack the deck against free agents.

The stigma against batter strikeouts has started to go away largely because of the recognition that the skills that leads to being strikeout-prone—selling out for power—are worth it. At the same time, Lindsey is absolutely correct that an out made in the field is more valuable than an out made without putting the ball…

I highly recommend Joe Sheehan’s recent piece at FanGraphs about pace-of-play, where he ties the slowdown of the game to the increase in max-effort pitching (and thus, higher pitch velocities). I’m fine with a pitch clock, but it doesn’t address the underlying reasons for the slowdown.

Now we will all have to, a second time, never forget where we were when a football player was acquitted of a double homicide.

I just want to genuinely thank you for including a pronunciation guide for Latinx, because I had definitely been pronouncing it incorrectly in my head for quite some time. Before, I’d imagined the ending rhymed with “lynx”.