Stick to baseball, 10/5/19.

Nothing new from me this week other than a Klawchat and a Periscope video as I try to finish off the first draft of my upcoming book The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves, now available for pre-order. My next ESPN+ column will be a dispatch from the Arizona Fall League.

And now, the links – fewer than usual, for the same reasons, but these should get back to normal by the end of the month:

Comments

  1. You probably wrote this weeks ago, but ESPN did release the below article from you this week; Ranking under-25 players who could impact MLB postseason.

    https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/27739964/law-top-25-players-impact-mlb-postseason

    • They did, but the content in it isn’t new – I rewrote one capsule, on Flaherty – and I don’t love pushing recycled content, especially when it’s not something I like in the first place.

  2. The open letter reminded me of a manager I had years ago who one day was out with her husband. They pulled into a handicap spot in the parking lot and got out. A woman saw them walking pretty normal and made a face and/or comment. So my manager’s husband walked over to the woman, removed his prosthetic leg, and handed to her.

  3. Thank goodness we consumers have Nestle looking out for our best interests.

  4. Brian in ahwatukee

    That West Virginia article is really thought provoking and thank you for sharing! There was a rejection of neo-liberalism for a strong man. That strong man seems to be crumbling and what’s next is a serious question. I love idea of a nameless movement which goes beyond cult of personality of Bernie or whatever.

    I also sympathize with Andy Ricter and he should be allowed to grow. I am fully abled and occasionally park in handicapped space to get my daughter from inside a building somewhere. My daughter is obviously disabled. It’s 100x easier to load her in our van with the extra room afforded by a handicap space. I’ve been stopped more than once by an over zealous person and a quick conversation with them about what I’m doing and to why they should not judge and mind their business often results in a quick apology and an statement resulting in “I’ll do better next time.” People want to protect the truly disabled and I think the kernel of what they are doing is based in good. They just need help taking that next step. I needed that help at one point too.

  5. Today’s Republican party is the culmination of something that’s been going on since at least Nixon: lust for power. They have no principles left, they just want the power. They’ll do whatever it takes to keep it now that they have it. Meanwhile, the world continues to burn.

  6. That NYRB review was written by Sean Wilentz, a longtime distinguished historian of American social class. Thanks for posting it.

  7. Man, I loved SI as a kid. Sad.

  8. Really late to this, and I hope you’ll see it, but what are your favorite sources for loose leaf tea, esp decaf/herbal teas? I have a loose leaf caffeinated I love – the Citrus Earl Grey from Bar Harbor Tea Company (https://www.barharbortea.com/product-page/citrus-earl-grey) – but haven’t found something for an evening pot.