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Forty years ago MLB teams opened their books to an independent economist and were proven to be lying liars who lied.
Until they open their books that way again, let that be your default assumption about any claims they — and their media water carriers — make about their finances.
Until they open their books that way again, let that be your default assumption about any claims they — and their media water carriers — make about their finances.
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Been true for several years now that MLB opts to exploit a weird market quirk - that small outlets (Fox Sports 1/2, now streamers) will overpay for a small but intense audience - instead of thinking about the good of the game overall and long-term. Awful for fans, almost certainly bad for MLB.
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Been true for several years now that MLB opts to exploit a weird market quirk - that small outlets (Fox Sports 1/2, now streamers) will overpay for a small but intense audience - instead of thinking about the good of the game overall and long-term. Awful for fans, almost certainly bad for MLB.
If I'm reading this right, the extra round of playoffs that are wrecking the regular season are so in demand they will now mostly be on the eighth-most popular streaming platform.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If I'm reading this right, the extra round of playoffs that are wrecking the regular season are so in demand they will now mostly be on the eighth-most popular streaming platform.
Now the Orioles have Classic Tyler O’Neill and Diet Tyler O’Neill.
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Now the Orioles have Classic Tyler O’Neill and Diet Tyler O’Neill.
Teams are getting better at using the rules to wreck the free market for players. The QO system is brutal for all but the high-end free agents. Feel bad for Trent Grisham, unable to leverage the best year he'll ever have into long-term security. The players need to form a union and fight this stuff.
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Teams are getting better at using the rules to wreck the free market for players. The QO system is brutal for all but the high-end free agents. Feel bad for Trent Grisham, unable to leverage the best year he'll ever have into long-term security. The players need to form a union and fight this stuff.
"It's all about the guys in this room. They're a special group, with so much heart and grit. We knew on draft day that we would win close games by wanting them more, by being a team that loves each other. Let's face it, we're just better people than they are. We're winners."
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"It's all about the guys in this room. They're a special group, with so much heart and grit. We knew on draft day that we would win close games by wanting them more, by being a team that loves each other. Let's face it, we're just better people than they are. We're winners."
You‘d think maybe one time, just once, they’d let Barkley have another shot after falling an inch short of a touchdown.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
You‘d think maybe one time, just once, they’d let Barkley have another shot after falling an inch short of a touchdown.
Ibid.
I may be on Team Take the Points now. Football teams, college and pro, are laughably bad at the goal line. Just hopeless.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ibid.
I may be on Team Take the Points now. Football teams, college and pro, are laughably bad at the goal line. Just hopeless.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I may be on Team Take the Points now. Football teams, college and pro, are laughably bad at the goal line. Just hopeless.
It’ll get lost a bit, but days after ripping a reporter Bill O’Brien called for an all-time “this is why we’re 1-9” punt on fourth-and-1. Tech scored on the next play.
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It’ll get lost a bit, but days after ripping a reporter Bill O’Brien called for an all-time “this is why we’re 1-9” punt on fourth-and-1. Tech scored on the next play.
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Have you been curious about The Clubhouse? Now is the perfect time to join since you get to name your own price through Thanksgiving.
We are doing something different at JoeBlogs and would love for you to join us.
We are doing something different at JoeBlogs and would love for you to join us.
Charting a New JoeBlogs Future
We're trying to build up a joyful, ad-free, cynicism-free home for sports storytelling.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Have you been curious about The Clubhouse? Now is the perfect time to join since you get to name your own price through Thanksgiving.
We are doing something different at JoeBlogs and would love for you to join us.
We are doing something different at JoeBlogs and would love for you to join us.
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Our 6 AM Lyft driver knew the Greyhound route from New Orleans to Atlanta well. He took it many times as a youth to visit his grandpa. The bus line brought back cherished memories.
“So is it, you know, nice?” I asked.
“Oh no,” he replied. “Noooooooooo.”
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
“So is it, you know, nice?” I asked.
“Oh no,” he replied. “Noooooooooo.”
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
The Wayward Bus
In which our doughy protagonist drags his poor wife from a romantic getaway into an unscheduled 30-hour bus trip through the heart of America, courtesy of the government shutdown.
miketanier.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our 6 AM Lyft driver knew the Greyhound route from New Orleans to Atlanta well. He took it many times as a youth to visit his grandpa. The bus line brought back cherished memories.
“So is it, you know, nice?” I asked.
“Oh no,” he replied. “Noooooooooo.”
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
“So is it, you know, nice?” I asked.
“Oh no,” he replied. “Noooooooooo.”
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
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Inside: Skubal and Skenes are your Cy Young Award winners, Murphy and Vogt are your Managers of the Year, Joe Maddon's sour grapes, the Skaggs trial, the Epstein emails, John Darnielle, "Puribus," and my airport luck.
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Inside: Skubal and Skenes are your Cy Young Award winners, Murphy and Vogt are your Managers of the Year, Joe Maddon's sour grapes, the Skaggs trial, the Epstein emails, John Darnielle, "Puribus," and my airport luck.
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Cup of Coffee: November 13, 2025
Skubal and Skenes are your Cy Young Award winners, Murphy and Vogt are your Managers of the Year, Joe Maddon's sour grapes, the Skaggs trial, the Epstein emails, John Darnielle, "Puribus," and my airp...
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today's newsletter is free!
Inside: Skubal and Skenes are your Cy Young Award winners, Murphy and Vogt are your Managers of the Year, Joe Maddon's sour grapes, the Skaggs trial, the Epstein emails, John Darnielle, "Puribus," and my airport luck.
www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Inside: Skubal and Skenes are your Cy Young Award winners, Murphy and Vogt are your Managers of the Year, Joe Maddon's sour grapes, the Skaggs trial, the Epstein emails, John Darnielle, "Puribus," and my airport luck.
www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
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🚨New at the Baseball Savant factory: We made a free agent leaderboard that lets you see who's available this offseason and what their Statcast metrics are.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🚨New at the Baseball Savant factory: We made a free agent leaderboard that lets you see who's available this offseason and what their Statcast metrics are.
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...
--> baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Is this just the NBA now? Half the games are over at halftime?
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Is this just the NBA now? Half the games are over at halftime?
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Until owners open their books, the default assumption should be that they're making money hand over fist and they don't want the players to know it. And opening the books should mean cash flow statements for all affiliated entities, not just showing paper losses for the team.
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Until owners open their books, the default assumption should be that they're making money hand over fist and they don't want the players to know it. And opening the books should mean cash flow statements for all affiliated entities, not just showing paper losses for the team.
You’ll be hard-pressed to watch a team play more scared than Creighton has in the second half at The Kennel.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
You’ll be hard-pressed to watch a team play more scared than Creighton has in the second half at The Kennel.
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Haven't plugged my journalism interview podcast in awhile
This episode is an interview with Maryam Jameel @propublica.org @maryamjameel.bsky.social
We talked about her work, how ProPublica is creative in finding sources for stories, and much more
Try us:
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This episode is an interview with Maryam Jameel @propublica.org @maryamjameel.bsky.social
We talked about her work, how ProPublica is creative in finding sources for stories, and much more
Try us:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Haven't plugged my journalism interview podcast in awhile
This episode is an interview with Maryam Jameel @propublica.org @maryamjameel.bsky.social
We talked about her work, how ProPublica is creative in finding sources for stories, and much more
Try us:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
This episode is an interview with Maryam Jameel @propublica.org @maryamjameel.bsky.social
We talked about her work, how ProPublica is creative in finding sources for stories, and much more
Try us:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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I went deeper into the at-bats where Luis Ortiz is accused of throwing balls on purpose.
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
A Huge Scandal Is Rocking Baseball. Here’s What Needs to Change.
The indictments of two major league pitchers are just the clearest examples yet of the scourge of the prop bet.
slate.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I went deeper into the at-bats where Luis Ortiz is accused of throwing balls on purpose.
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
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A bit of news about The Bandwagon and myself. Plus a great pic from Zach’s wedding. open.substack.com/pub/bandwago...
The end of a season, the end of our era
Some news.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A bit of news about The Bandwagon and myself. Plus a great pic from Zach’s wedding. open.substack.com/pub/bandwago...
Reposted by Joe Sheehan
Transcript available for those into that sorta thing.
Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 11/11/25 blogs.fangraphs.com/jay-jaffe-fa...
Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 11/11/25
Area stove lit.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Transcript available for those into that sorta thing.
🎶 Eno he know 🎶 ... and Derek.
Coming to Bluesky for the first time in a long time to tell you that @dvr.bsky.social and @enosarris.bsky.social should have a buddy cop show
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎶 Eno he know 🎶 ... and Derek.
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Latest notes:
*Reasons for Twins to keep Ryan, López
*Rangers facing crossroads
*The Rays’ call on Fairbanks
*Why Bieber’s decision baffled execs
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
*Reasons for Twins to keep Ryan, López
*Rangers facing crossroads
*The Rays’ call on Fairbanks
*Why Bieber’s decision baffled execs
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
MLB offseason notes: Which way for the Twins and Rangers?
Plus more details on Pete Fairbanks' market and Shane Bieber's surprising option decision.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Latest notes:
*Reasons for Twins to keep Ryan, López
*Rangers facing crossroads
*The Rays’ call on Fairbanks
*Why Bieber’s decision baffled execs
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
*Reasons for Twins to keep Ryan, López
*Rangers facing crossroads
*The Rays’ call on Fairbanks
*Why Bieber’s decision baffled execs
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
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Today at @baseballprospectus.com: Kicking off the viewing experience of watching three home games for all 30 teams, starting with the Angels and the saddest fun fact of the year. I mean, it's really, really sad.
Around the League in 90 Days: Los Angeles Angels | Baseball Prospectus
Not a great team, but a well-dressed booth.
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Today at @baseballprospectus.com: Kicking off the viewing experience of watching three home games for all 30 teams, starting with the Angels and the saddest fun fact of the year. I mean, it's really, really sad.