The Night is Young The very young 2021 MLB season has barely made it into its first full week, but there are a few preliminary numbers that can be early indicators of where trends may be headed. In recent years, I’ve begun to examine the first few weeks of each season to see in there is any insight into full season …

History Making History Only these six players in MLB history have ever reached the career milestone of at least 3,000 hits AND 500 home runs…only six. It is one of the rarest achievements in all of professional sports. Last First sum(H) sum(HR) Aaron Hank 3771 755 Mays Willie 3283 660 Murray …

When I was in grade school… When I was in grade school, I learned to write in cursive. I hated it then, but I gained an appreciation for it long ago. A lot of younger millennials don’t even know how to read it, and they sometimes get a lot of grief for that. In defense of millennials, they probably know how to read …

…it might be a GOAT I’ve never liked Tom Brady much - I was biased, I had real faith in a Bledsoe comeback. But he is still really good, and I realized that he could have retired at around 36 or 37 with a career that would have easily gotten him into the Hall of Fame. He could have been inducted after the 5-year …

The New World Order This QAnon phenomenon is remarkably disconcerting, and some of the symbolism that made its way into the Capitol is an example of how this is a unifying force for our most extreme ideologies, and that it has forced its way into our normal discourse. It is even more concerning that while those that …

A Game of Arc-Seconds The Dodgers have lost the first two games of the NLCS to the Braves. Two games that would have been, if not for playing in a “bubble”, played in Los Angeles at their home field. This isn’t exactly rare; home field winning percentage tends to be, like winning percentage in general in baseball, …

Respite from a Chaotic World As phenomenally strange and difficult as 2020 has been, I’ve found a little slice of solace from somewhere I actually expected the opposite. Being a bit of a traditionalist, I thought I would get a sour taste from the changes made to the rules this MLB season. I was wrong. Strange things …