Hannah Keyser
@hannahrkeyser.bsky.social
Shameless bandwagoner, scrapple enthusiast, fount of vehement inconsequential convictions. Sports writer at CNN. hannah.keyser@cnn.com // hrkeyser.09 https://www.cnn.com/profiles/hannah-keyser
“Sorry to keep going back to my playing days,” he says, “but that’s all I know.” what a perfect quote in this story from @brittghiroli.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Buster Posey’s Giants legacy is on the line as adulation is shifting to anger (Gift Article)
Stepping straight into the top job for the team he defined, Posey is learning that running a team is vastly different than leading one.
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Sunflower seeds is a strange snack to sell at the airport.
I want to hear about WHY fans hate this so much. I **especially** want to hear from you if YOU YOURSELF bet on sports but still don't like your team/league/favorite athlete partnering with prediction markets and/or sports books. Hannah.keyser[at]cnn.com to talk
Hannah Keyser@hannahrkeyser.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m fascinated by how universally negative the responses to this are (even on Twitter!). Betting on sports is booming and yet fans seem to hate the increased integration of gambling/prediction markets with their teams/leagues and I would love to understand this dichotomy
I’m fascinated by how universally negative the responses to this are (even on Twitter!). Betting on sports is booming and yet fans seem to hate the increased integration of gambling/prediction markets with their teams/leagues and I would love to understand this dichotomy
Working on a bit of a Bandwagon project for next week -- hat tip to @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social for nudging my rants into an actual idea -- called the Move Matrix. How does your team's countenance compare to how you think they should behave at the trade deadline? bandwagon.ghost.io/individual-g...
[T]he campaign seems to be just as much about convincing fans that MLB is acting in their best interest – going so far as to take fan desire as a mandate – as it is about selling them on the merits of a salary cap. wrote about MLB's public-face strategy www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/s...
What’s behind MLB’s aggressive sales pitch to fans ahead of this winter’s labor battle | CNN
The league has a plan for how to handle talking publicly about the negotiation for the next collective bargaining agreement between the league and players.
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I love baseball, and I love the Olympics. And (I say purely as a personal opinion not intended to be a comment on any labor implications of the current proposals) I don't think baseball makes sense as an Olympic sport.
Joe Sheehan@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · last mo.Today's Newsletter is free, and about how MLB needs to back away from the Olympics as quickly as it can. Read, love, subscribe for 20% off. www.joesheehan.com
“I do think of baseball as a social institution.” Rob Manfred said. “We try to pick things like veterans, where there's widespread support. So I do think of it as a social institution. At the same time, we are a business.”
Rob Manfred: “obviously at the end of the day it’s about the players.” He was talking about why the HRD was so good but… good to know!
I think if Bryce Harper can take the time to hide how much he was paid, he can take the time to hide the name of the child, which the Inquirer specifically did not publicize
One thing that really came across in talking to parents and experts is that they know this all sounds crazy, but they also don’t want their child to fall behind and they can’t deny that, unequivocally, “Money makes a difference.” www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/s...
I wanted the themes to be universal but the story to be specific. I talked to ~dozen parents around the country whose experiences informed the piece. But I, obviously, could not have done it without the family that ultimately let me into their homes and their lives. www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/s...
“It’s going to pay off, so that’s why I do it...That’s why I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill.” Everyone knows youth sports, like soccer, are expensive. I wanted to write about how those costs *feel* to families of young athletes who are weighing how much to spend. www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/s...
‘I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill’: How the cost of youth soccer blew out of control and why some families pay it anyway | CNN
Soccer’s “pay-to-play” model in America is routinely criticized for limiting the country’s success on the international stage at the professional level.
cnn.com
this is the pay-to-play story we've been waiting for
Hannah Keyser@hannahrkeyser.bsky.social · last mo.“It’s going to pay off, so that’s why I do it...That’s why I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill.” Everyone knows youth sports, like soccer, are expensive. I wanted to write about how those costs *feel* to families of young athletes who are weighing how much to spend. www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/s...
“It’s going to pay off, so that’s why I do it...That’s why I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill.” Everyone knows youth sports, like soccer, are expensive. I wanted to write about how those costs *feel* to families of young athletes who are weighing how much to spend. www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/s...
‘I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill’: How the cost of youth soccer blew out of control and why some families pay it anyway | CNN
Soccer’s “pay-to-play” model in America is routinely criticized for limiting the country’s success on the international stage at the professional level.
cnn.com
happened upon this Home Run Derby take I wrote last year and am now really enjoying thinking of unconventional HRD participants. send suggestions
help me convince my editor that the best way to cover the World Cup is by going to baseball games
Michael Clair@michaelclair.bsky.social · 2mo agoI love the World Cup and I've been watching as many games as possible. However, I don't think I've enjoyed anything quite so much as international fans coming to MLB stadiums and getting so incredibly into it. More U.S. World Cups ... bigger World Baseball Classics?
Overheard Britts in the pressbox talking about the hydration breaks: “Abomination, innit?” “Changes the game massively”
hello from soccer saw a Norwegian fan brandishing a cardboard box that said "Grandiosa" like a sign. Didn't act fast enough for a pic but a great google reveal.
the disgustingly, violently American intersection of people unable to afford diapers and murderous cops
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2mo agoKohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
Looking to talk to Knicks fans about what this playoff run meant for your interpersonal relationships. Did you see your dad cry for the first time? Did your partner/friends see you cry for the first time? Were you secretly hoping it would go 7 so we could all keep hanging out? Hannah.keyser@cnn.com
I think the Nets gotta move. Can’t come back after Brooklyn celebrated another team like that.
I wrote about what struck me most at the Knicks watch parties in Brooklyn last night: so many people watching on their phones, but doing so precisely so that they *could* be together. And how this changed how I felt about a communal experience mediated through screens www.cnn.com/2026/06/14/s...
NBA finals turning me into a huge fan of Mariska Hargitay
