[as my horses sprint out of the barn, spraying shit behind them] Better figure out how to close those barn doors
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 7h agoJon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)
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Eight-time winner of PEOPLE's Sexiest Man of the Year award, three-time AL MVP, recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, third grade spelling bee finalist. Formerly a baseball words guy at FanGraphs and Sports Illustrated.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 7h ago
The Mets getting a guy named Sammy Stafura is poetry
MLB Daily News@insidemlbnews.bsky.social · 2d agoTrade summary, per Michael Marino: Pirates get - Luke Weaver Mets get - Sammy Stafura
Blue Jays need to remake the pointing Spider-Men meme with Josh Smith and Ernie Clement
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoJays making some seriously good trades today which brings me to...why didn't they do this 3 months ago?
CUBS FANS: [through sobs] You can't just build the whole rotation out of starters who throw a splitter... please... JED HOYER: [points at Nathan Eovaldi] Cub
Matt Trueblood@matrueblood.bsky.social · 2d agoSource: #Cubs in on starting pitchers being dangled by #Rangers in last-minute pivot toward selling. Most to least likely: Eovaldi, Gore, deGrom
Every Guardians outfielder gathered around Adell at his locker, begging him to share the secret of how he manages to hit the ball into the Forbidden Zone beyond the outfield wall
Roger Cormier@themetsnewsletter.com · 2d agoJo Adell to the Guardians, per Jon Heyman
Do people realize how iffy the Dodgers' rotation currently is behind Yamamoto? Eric Lauer, the leaky boat that is Emmett Sheehan's 2026 season, Roki "Russian Roulette" Sasaki, Justin Wrobleski desperately trying to keep his fifth starter peripherals from dragging him under... it's a rough group!
Matt Trueblood@matrueblood.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Dodgers replaced Literally Eric Lauer in their rotation with Tarik Skubal and I am listening to a straight-faced conversation right now about "whether Skubal fits" with LA and whether ït's really more about keeping him away from other teams". Dodgers Derangement Syndrome might be real.
I would've rushed out to get another catcher too after watching Eliezer Alfonso repeatedly spit up on his shoes last night
Jon Heyman@jonheyman.bsky.social · 2d agoDodgers acquire catcher Ben Rortvedt from Mets for pitcher Chayce McDermott
The same way Kevin Hart answers every phone call with "I'll do it", Eric Adams responds to every Instagram or Twitter DM with "I'm in"
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d agoThis past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
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I don't know if the Delco accent would do anything particularly esoteric to "Luis Arraez" but I'm excited to find out
OK (OK) Blue Jays (Blue Jays) Let's Get Weird
Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2d agoOK, Blue Jays. Let's get weird.
The Royals would be one of the best teams in baseball if they could travel back in time and convince Abner Doubleday to limit games to seven innings
"Every contender wants big trade piece Clay Holmes" is the perfect deadline rumor for the 2026 parity season
Passanthallich@passanthalbot.bsky.social · 6d ago@JonHeyman tweeted There’s no extension talk ongoing with Mets starter Clay Holmes, so presumably there will be no extension. In this sellers market, with precious few frontline starters available, this is a big trade piece. Nearly every contender scouted him in rehab game.
This dude went from Cy Young finalist and All-Star to getting kicked out on his ass by MLB's equivalent of a slumlord in the span of four years
MLB Daily News@insidemlbnews.bsky.social · last wk.Alek Manoah released by the Angels.
The arc of the universe is long but it bends toward Don Mattingly being a bad manager
Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)@jontayler.bsky.social · 3mo agoFiring the manager of your struggling team and then handing the keys to Don Mattingly kind of undoes whatever positive effect you were hoping to get out of firing the manager
Craig Breslow about to make the funniest trade imaginable
SF Giants Bot@giantbot.bsky.social · last wk.🤖 Evan Webeck With Casey Schmitt headed for likely season-ending surgery and Luis Arraez likely playing for another team this time next week, look who’s taking ground balls at second base — Rafael Devers 👀
Mr Beast should've hooped instead of tryna kill people in elaborate mazes and stunts cause he tall as hell!
Dan Gartland@dangartland.bsky.social · last wk.I just got randomly served a post on Instagram from the LeBron James Foundation and now I’m rattled by the fact that Mr. Beast is nearly as tall as LeBron
People who wear sweaters and sweatshirts in the summer: how do you do it? What’s your secret? Are you actually dead?
Blood oranges for the blood orange god
Haley Stevens has the look and feel of a college basketball head coach who’s in over her head at a mid-major
Waking up to find out the Red Sox traded Connelly Early for a short-side platoon bat who’s a bad defender
Nolan McLean looks like Matt Harvey’s parole officer
ME: [ordering at a fast food place] Lemme get the number 6, medium. You want anything? THE NAMELESS ELDER GOD WHO IS BEYOND DESCRIPTION AND LIVES IN THE SHADOWS OF PERCEPTION: [a low rolling grumble that sounds like a dimension being torn asunder] ME: No I think they stop serving breakfast at 11