Andrew Bucholtz
@andrewbucholtz.bsky.social
Editor, Bucholtz Sports Media, at andrewbucholtz.com. Editor, Conflicts of Interest Online, @SDHistCon. Past work at Awful Announcing, Yahoo, and more. andrew@andrewbucholtz.com.
The key to fixing things is writing memorable ballads about them, apparently.
Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The key to fixing things is writing memorable ballads about them, apparently.
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War Story: Occupied France is the winner of this year's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award!
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
War Story: Occupied France is the winner of this year's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award!
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
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we’re holding our own
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
we’re holding our own
Now that's an anniversary worth noting.
in which @tonyhotran.bsky.social greets you all upon the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (the actual shipwreck, in this instance of observance) slate.com/technology/2...
Why Everyone With a Phone Was Obsessed With a 50-Year-Old Shipwreck This Week
How a Great Lakes shipwreck turning 50 gave rise to the most ridiculous and reverent of memes.
slate.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Now that's an anniversary worth noting.
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Always a highlight of my year. So great to see amazing people and teach and play games. A few further highlights: Team Undaunted, 1846, Waterways, and Chalice of Poison.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Always a highlight of my year. So great to see amazing people and teach and play games. A few further highlights: Team Undaunted, 1846, Waterways, and Chalice of Poison.
Another great @sdhistcon.bsky.social thing: delicious lunches at Point Loma Seafood, with waterfront views. Scallop sandwich yesterday, fish one today, both excellent.
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Another great @sdhistcon.bsky.social thing: delicious lunches at Point Loma Seafood, with waterfront views. Scallop sandwich yesterday, fish one today, both excellent.
Getting to play Fire in the Lake with designers Volko Ruhnke and Mark Herman yesterday @sdhistcon.bsky.social was fantastic. Such a cool game.
"Fire in the Lake" with Volko and Mark, giants of the #wargaming field. @volko.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Getting to play Fire in the Lake with designers Volko Ruhnke and Mark Herman yesterday @sdhistcon.bsky.social was fantastic. Such a cool game.
This weekend has been great so far. All started with this excellent pre-con meetup with an awesome group.
First of two pre-convention events for @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Hanging with @andrewbucholtz.bsky.social, @jeffdreher.bsky.social, @bggandrew.bsky.social, @arturnottheking.bsky.social! @zumheimathafen.com and @mysterydough.net at Stone Brewery.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This weekend has been great so far. All started with this excellent pre-con meetup with an awesome group.
Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
Thanks so much to everyone on the SDHist Board and Board of Advisors who worked on the Bobby Nunes Memorial Award and Summit Award this year, and especially to @danbullock.bsky.social for chairing these awards. The team came up with great selections (this and War Story: Occupied France for Summit).
We're thrilled to announce @amabel.bsky.social's video essay “Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context” as the recipient of the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. More info on the award here: sdhist.com/amabel-holla.... Check out the essay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXy...
Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Thanks so much to everyone on the SDHist Board and Board of Advisors who worked on the Bobby Nunes Memorial Award and Summit Award this year, and especially to @danbullock.bsky.social for chairing these awards. The team came up with great selections (this and War Story: Occupied France for Summit).
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SDHist is proud to announce War Story: Occupied France as the recipient of the fourth annual Summit Award: sdhist.com/war-story-oc.... Congrats to designers Dave Neale and @djackthompson.bsky.social and publisher @ospreygames.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
SDHist is proud to announce War Story: Occupied France as the recipient of the fourth annual Summit Award: sdhist.com/war-story-oc.... Congrats to designers Dave Neale and @djackthompson.bsky.social and publisher @ospreygames.bsky.social!
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A fairly experienced Fire In The Lake team. @sdhistcon.bsky.social @volko.bsky.social @markherman54.bsky.social @andrewbucholtz.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A fairly experienced Fire In The Lake team. @sdhistcon.bsky.social @volko.bsky.social @markherman54.bsky.social @andrewbucholtz.bsky.social
Very excited for the @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit convention this week. Getting up at 5 a.m. for a flight will be well worth it. I'm teaching Undaunted, Shores of Tripoli, China's War, Cross-Bronx Expressway, 1846, Gest of Robin Hood, and Littoral Commander, and playing Fire in the Lake and 1861.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Very excited for the @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit convention this week. Getting up at 5 a.m. for a flight will be well worth it. I'm teaching Undaunted, Shores of Tripoli, China's War, Cross-Bronx Expressway, 1846, Gest of Robin Hood, and Littoral Commander, and playing Fire in the Lake and 1861.
FIFA is definitely the most trustworthy and credible international organization that should hand out a peace prize.
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
FIFA is definitely the most trustworthy and credible international organization that should hand out a peace prize.
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In a shocking move, the Ottawa RedBlacks have hired Ryan Dinwiddie out of Toronto to become their next Head Coach & GM! 😳😲🏈
Dinwiddie has served as the Argonauts' HC since 2020!
#Argonauts #PullTogether #Argos #DoubleBlue #CFL #RedBlacks #TorontoSports
Dinwiddie has served as the Argonauts' HC since 2020!
#Argonauts #PullTogether #Argos #DoubleBlue #CFL #RedBlacks #TorontoSports
Former Toronto Argonauts Head Coach, Ryan Dinwiddie, has signed with the Ottawa Redblacks as the new Head Coach and General Manager, per Dave Naylor.
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In a shocking move, the Ottawa RedBlacks have hired Ryan Dinwiddie out of Toronto to become their next Head Coach & GM! 😳😲🏈
Dinwiddie has served as the Argonauts' HC since 2020!
#Argonauts #PullTogether #Argos #DoubleBlue #CFL #RedBlacks #TorontoSports
Dinwiddie has served as the Argonauts' HC since 2020!
#Argonauts #PullTogether #Argos #DoubleBlue #CFL #RedBlacks #TorontoSports
There are good reasons to think Drew Brees' second NFL booth stint (seemingly replacing Mark Sanchez this time) may work better than his first. New (free) Bucholtz Sports Media post on that: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/drew-b...
Drew Brees' reported new Fox gig provides a much better chance for him as a booth analyst
Drew Brees' reported role replacing Mark Sanchez on the NFL on Fox looks like a much better way into game analysis for him than his NBC start.
andrewbucholtz.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
There are good reasons to think Drew Brees' second NFL booth stint (seemingly replacing Mark Sanchez this time) may work better than his first. New (free) Bucholtz Sports Media post on that: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/drew-b...
Obviously very dumb, but it is funny to see the reverse of the Berlin Airlift.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Obviously very dumb, but it is funny to see the reverse of the Berlin Airlift.
Reading U.S. Grant's memoirs, which are excellent. This shot at Braxton Bragg made me cackle.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reading U.S. Grant's memoirs, which are excellent. This shot at Braxton Bragg made me cackle.
New Bucholtz Sports Media post for premium subscribers: Historic Jays-Dodgers World Series Game 7 numbers show Saturday night's all right (for sporting): andrewbucholtz.com/posts/histor.... Saturday's working a lot better for sports events than many had previously figured.
Historic Jays-Dodgers World Series Game 7 numbers show Saturday night's all right (for sporting)
Massive World Series Game 7 ratings are just the latest evidence sports can work on broadcast TV in unconventional windows, including Saturday night.
andrewbucholtz.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
New Bucholtz Sports Media post for premium subscribers: Historic Jays-Dodgers World Series Game 7 numbers show Saturday night's all right (for sporting): andrewbucholtz.com/posts/histor.... Saturday's working a lot better for sports events than many had previously figured.
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let's get a whole sourcebook going
meatball: +1d8 to messiness, double modifier if target is wearing a white shirt
tomato slices: on a critical hit, sub explodes and each adjacent target takes 1d4 tomato slice damage
toasted: +1d4 bludgeoning damage
meatball: +1d8 to messiness, double modifier if target is wearing a white shirt
tomato slices: on a critical hit, sub explodes and each adjacent target takes 1d4 tomato slice damage
toasted: +1d4 bludgeoning damage
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
let's get a whole sourcebook going
meatball: +1d8 to messiness, double modifier if target is wearing a white shirt
tomato slices: on a critical hit, sub explodes and each adjacent target takes 1d4 tomato slice damage
toasted: +1d4 bludgeoning damage
meatball: +1d8 to messiness, double modifier if target is wearing a white shirt
tomato slices: on a critical hit, sub explodes and each adjacent target takes 1d4 tomato slice damage
toasted: +1d4 bludgeoning damage
What's the CRT for sandwich-throwing, and what gives you a DRM or a column shift? (Also, I'm glad that CRTs have made Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_...)
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What's the CRT for sandwich-throwing, and what gives you a DRM or a column shift? (Also, I'm glad that CRTs have made Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_...)
I really enjoyed @kdonhoops.com's (Not) On Hoops post on World Series Game 7 and what intrigued him about it: www.kdonhoops.com/co/?ref=on-h.... Helps speak to how this particular game/series hit a much bigger audience than you might think.
Don't be afraid of the ball
The idea that baseball is a cruel, unsupportive sport doesn't need re-recognition. That notion has been around for as long as sportswriters could count to three, doing our best to ape dear, old, Tenny...
www.kdonhoops.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I really enjoyed @kdonhoops.com's (Not) On Hoops post on World Series Game 7 and what intrigued him about it: www.kdonhoops.com/co/?ref=on-h.... Helps speak to how this particular game/series hit a much bigger audience than you might think.
As a kid, my first exposure to Bill Murray was in Space Jam. I thought for a long time he was just a random friend of Michael Jordan, who Jordan was surprisingly mean to.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
As a kid, my first exposure to Bill Murray was in Space Jam. I thought for a long time he was just a random friend of Michael Jordan, who Jordan was surprisingly mean to.
It's unfortunate to see the fake reporters are back, this time impugning Woj. Free Bucholtz Sports Media post on "Scott Hughes CBB," and the ridiculous tradition they fall into, here: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/fake-r...
Fake reporter's false claim Adrian Wojnarowski was ejected is the latest in a long line of social media junk
The latest fake reporter drama fits in a long line of social media misinformation, especially in college sports.
andrewbucholtz.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's unfortunate to see the fake reporters are back, this time impugning Woj. Free Bucholtz Sports Media post on "Scott Hughes CBB," and the ridiculous tradition they fall into, here: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/fake-r...
New Bucholtz Sports Media post (free): Incredible World Series, especially Game 7, provided an unexpected boon for MLB: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/game-7.... How teams actually play matters, often more than markets, and the Jays and Dodgers gave MLB something to build on.
Incredible World Series, especially Game 7, provided an unexpected boon for MLB
Jays-Dodgers wound up as a boon for MLB, and one with forward-looking business impacts
andrewbucholtz.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New Bucholtz Sports Media post (free): Incredible World Series, especially Game 7, provided an unexpected boon for MLB: andrewbucholtz.com/posts/game-7.... How teams actually play matters, often more than markets, and the Jays and Dodgers gave MLB something to build on.