Astros front office drama, an NPB posting, World Series ratings, sports gambling fails in California, New York food, licking toads, the Sexiest Man Alive, and The Sources of my Political Discontent
New free agents, Ohtani's status, Don Draper pitches Trea Turner, throwing a beer at Ted Cruz, the Hall of Fame, Bob Costas' strange Astros apologia, Portnoy's Complaint and trekking poles
Screw Rogers Hornsby. Know what I do when it's winter and there's no baseball? I remember that, actually, there's still a lot of baseball. And politics, ten mile walks, and great extinction events
The Astros are in the driver's seat. Just like in 2019!
A no-hitter gives us a new Series
The Phillies bash their way to a win, the Gold Gloves are out, there's a new manager in Chicago, Marcus Stroman raises eyebrows, there's a fun walk, a document for sale and we talk affirmative action
(The day before) November rain, the Clemente Award, a callback from way back, Romeo and Juliet, life on Mars, British politics, American politics, and Bob Dylan: not the most enlightened 81 year-old!
A new manager, Manfred Men, bad bats, bad texts, bad Bo, the holidays, cats, unhinged right wing lunacy, the death of The Killer who may have been a killer, and Twitter's death spiral
The World Series et arrive!
Cardinals and Yankees news, sponsorship bucks, a dubious diversity mark, a class action against MLB, spiked Mountain Dew, lemonade out of lemons, slavery is bad, but! and . . . just one more thing
New managers, old managers, potential long-term extensions, bad bets, denied parole, Star Wars and what it says about a person who has made nearly 245,000 tweets
Rethinking your World Series fandom, recriminations in the Bronx, hating it when our friends become successful, Schwarber on a mechanical bull, California weed, California GDP and Bono being Bono
