robneyer
@robneyer.bsky.social
Part-time father, writer, husband, cat-herder. Full-time breather, eater.
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This probably wasn’t the best thing I wrote this season. But it was almost certainly my favorite thing I wrote this season.
Best of BP 2025: Various Great Philosophers and How They Would Feel About the Automated Ball-Strike System | Baseball Prospectus
Gathering the greatest minds of two and a half millennia to embrace a little debate.
www.baseballprospectus.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This probably wasn’t the best thing I wrote this season. But it was almost certainly my favorite thing I wrote this season.
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This is the feeling that Eric Adams was trying to capture when he said that New York is the only city where you might see a plane fly into the World Trade Center
Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
January 1, 2026 at 9:49 PM
This is the feeling that Eric Adams was trying to capture when he said that New York is the only city where you might see a plane fly into the World Trade Center
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You should subscribe to The Long Game because Molly is a great writer, a friend, and the community she has created is fantastic.
Hello. I've never done a *sale* for my newsletter to the general public because I am bad at business. Anyway, I'm now offering 25% off an annual subscription to The Long Game so you can see what our community of kind-hearted baseball sickos is all about: <3 mollyknight.substack.com/p/flash-sale...
Flash Sale: Only $37.50 for an annual sub!
Never done an offer like this to the general public before.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You should subscribe to The Long Game because Molly is a great writer, a friend, and the community she has created is fantastic.
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The final Newsletter of 2025 looks back at the biggest lesson I learned this year, and is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe.
To all, have a happy, healthy, and successful new year!
www.joesheehan.com
To all, have a happy, healthy, and successful new year!
www.joesheehan.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The final Newsletter of 2025 looks back at the biggest lesson I learned this year, and is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe.
To all, have a happy, healthy, and successful new year!
www.joesheehan.com
To all, have a happy, healthy, and successful new year!
www.joesheehan.com
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Really amazing the extent to which even the biggest and most politically favored industries in the United States are oafish 19th-century style scams being run by blowhard hucksters and ideologues with no coherent ideology. The One Weird Trick economy. powering-the-planet.ghost.io/less/
Lessons from the Bakken
The New York Times recently profiled Harold Hamm, Continental CEO Resources chairman emeritus, and noted how Hamm is advising Trump to go all in on fossil fuels. This should surprise no one as Harold ...
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December 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Really amazing the extent to which even the biggest and most politically favored industries in the United States are oafish 19th-century style scams being run by blowhard hucksters and ideologues with no coherent ideology. The One Weird Trick economy. powering-the-planet.ghost.io/less/
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COURT QUEENS is out March 17, women's hoops in pictures and words, 1890s to 2020s. It was a blast to pull together such a love letter of a coffee table book—pre-orders open everywhere you buy your books 🧡 (But 25% off for Barnes and Noble members right now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/court-quee...)
December 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
COURT QUEENS is out March 17, women's hoops in pictures and words, 1890s to 2020s. It was a blast to pull together such a love letter of a coffee table book—pre-orders open everywhere you buy your books 🧡 (But 25% off for Barnes and Noble members right now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/court-quee...)
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The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world.
And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last.
And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last.
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world.
And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last.
And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last.
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We have a special series where we critique movies/shows with podcasting in them. Most of the movies/shows are VERY bad. Please join @maximumfun.org and enjoy our suffering. maximumfun.org/join/
For our members-only series Podcast Movie Movie Podcast, @jordanmorris.bsky.social and I watched “The Christmas Challenge,” a Christmas movie about a podcast. It was literally the worst film I have ever seen. I hope you will listen because otherwise the nightmare was all for naught.
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We have a special series where we critique movies/shows with podcasting in them. Most of the movies/shows are VERY bad. Please join @maximumfun.org and enjoy our suffering. maximumfun.org/join/
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Awarding the coveted David Roth "What A Picture" status to The Secret Agent (2025). Another really humane, inventive, and nicely nasty movie about trying to remain human in very bad times that is also a blast to watch pretty much from start to finish.
December 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Awarding the coveted David Roth "What A Picture" status to The Secret Agent (2025). Another really humane, inventive, and nicely nasty movie about trying to remain human in very bad times that is also a blast to watch pretty much from start to finish.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
Jeez. Talk about recency bias. I forgot SINNERS. Definitely in here somewhere.
🚨 RECENCY BIAS ALERT 🚨
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
December 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Jeez. Talk about recency bias. I forgot SINNERS. Definitely in here somewhere.
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Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” is constantly on banned book lists - including the recent case in Llano County, Texas. I just want to say that it is the greatest picture book I’ve ever read, and would not be the same without the butts and weenises.
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” is constantly on banned book lists - including the recent case in Llano County, Texas. I just want to say that it is the greatest picture book I’ve ever read, and would not be the same without the butts and weenises.
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Boss: Did you get that promotional photo of Spielberg and ET???
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Boss: Did you get that promotional photo of Spielberg and ET???
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
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"Mary sees the big man in George from the first, because she is a big woman." TLDR: She's a spinster without George, because George is the only man she wants.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Mary sees the big man in George from the first, because she is a big woman." TLDR: She's a spinster without George, because George is the only man she wants.
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They "discovered" that when mice are rewilded they become less anxious.And this surprises scientists? Being trapped, tormented by experiments makes them more anxious than being free in nature. They had to learn this?
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
Scientists Released Caged Mice Into The Wild, And an Incredible Thing Happened
Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one week, researchers observed, suggesting that 'rewilding' may prevent lab-...
www.sciencealert.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
They "discovered" that when mice are rewilded they become less anxious.And this surprises scientists? Being trapped, tormented by experiments makes them more anxious than being free in nature. They had to learn this?
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
🚨 RECENCY BIAS ALERT 🚨
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
🚨 RECENCY BIAS ALERT 🚨
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
Four favorite movies this year:
1. Marty Supreme
2. Train Dreams
3. Frankenstein
4. OBAA
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America, there's something you should know.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
America, there's something you should know.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
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Green building
McClusky, ND
McClusky, ND
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Green building
McClusky, ND
McClusky, ND
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The aura of a man who pinch-ran 120 times in the major leagues
December 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The aura of a man who pinch-ran 120 times in the major leagues
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Grateful for this. Thank you O's fans for reading/buying/supporting the book!
www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2025/12/26/t...
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<i>The Last Manager</i> wins coveted CASEY Award - Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine recently announced that The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball, written by John W. Miller is the winner of the 2025 CASE...
www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Grateful for this. Thank you O's fans for reading/buying/supporting the book!
www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2025/12/26/t...
www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2025/12/26/t...
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A nice profile today at Ball Nine on Leslie Heaphy, one of the foremost scholars of Negro Leagues baseball (and one of my favorite people on the planet): ballnine.com/2025/12/26/d...
Diamond Queens
Leslie Heaphy was pursuing a graduate degree in history at the University of Toledo when she learned about the trio of women who played in the Negro Leagues. “I was amazed, excited and a bit surprised...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A nice profile today at Ball Nine on Leslie Heaphy, one of the foremost scholars of Negro Leagues baseball (and one of my favorite people on the planet): ballnine.com/2025/12/26/d...
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One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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I struck up a conversation with a woman working at the post office today. I told her I was mailing copies of a book about the Dodgers. "I grew up with Fernando Valenzuela," she said, "He was from my hometown in Mexico." She then demonstrated his windup. Needless to say, we are now friends.
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I struck up a conversation with a woman working at the post office today. I told her I was mailing copies of a book about the Dodgers. "I grew up with Fernando Valenzuela," she said, "He was from my hometown in Mexico." She then demonstrated his windup. Needless to say, we are now friends.