Phil DiPirro

[Wade Miller @OleBeeM]

@BasedMikeLee Please share if you can read:

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“Throughout pandemic many people with learning disability have faced discrimination & obstacles to accessing healthcare, with inappropriate DNR notices put on their files”

This is why disabled people are scared. We are treated as expendable:

https://t.co/rLiPcyWqqv

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

An excellent conversation with @benwikler - and I've rarely seen Jon Stewart so impressed with a political guest (though I can't say I'm surprised he's a Wikler fan - so many of us are)

[Phil DiPirro @DiPirro77]

@whutyearisit How old was the guy? Because as recently as the 90s, that's exactly how news like that would travel. He's just showing his age (or hitting on you, I wasn't there, ha!)...

[Phil DiPirro @DiPirro77]

@anylaurie16 the Mets are going to get more of Soto's prime seasons. As for his on-field performance, Soto isn't a well-rounded player, but he's been one of the top 5 hitters for every year of his career. At this point it would be more of a surprise if he doesn't end up in the Hall of Fame.

[Phil DiPirro @DiPirro77]

@anylaurie16 Yes, Laurie. He just turned 26--he made the majors at age 19. Usually players are more like 29-32 when they become free agents. Research has shown, though, that for most players, they're reach the downward slope of their productivity sometime between 29 and 32. This means that

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Soto deal is the largest contract in sports history

[Rose Cahalan @rosecahalan]

Lunch counter protests helped desegregate Texas in the 1960s. Student activists were spit on, cursed at, and arrested, but persevered. @robynrossatx revisits this history, on display at a perhaps surprising place: The @drpeppermuseum in Waco https://t.co/kZ3RPPQjF4

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

TODAY’S EPISODE OF:
WE FU*CKING WARNED YOU

Pittsburgh steelworkers who supported Trump aren’t happy that he’s opposing the US Steel-Nippon deal.

“I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night. I didn’t expect that to come out. So that was like a gut punch.” — United Steelworkers VP Jason Zugai

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

From the December Harper’s Index.

https://t.co/iKHzXnHN7I

[NYT Magazine @NYTmag]

Taylor Swift's greatest gift is for telling her own story — better than any journalist could.

@taffyakner went to an Eras Tour show in Santa Clara and had several realizations about Taylor Swift, the idea of the celebrity in 2023 — and herself.
https://t.co/1FKM2bWh5d

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

From The Verge: "In a new four-part documentary on Prime Video, It’s in the Game: Madden NFL traces the history of one of the world’s most successful game franchises and tells it like a startup story. But by the end, Madden is very much big tech and doesn’t seem to know what to do about it."

Full story: https://t.co/Q8QURVPTsx
✏️: David Pierce
📸: EA

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Left-handed reliever Aroldis Chapman and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a one-year, $10.75 million contract, pending physical, sources tell ESPN. Boston sought left-handed help for its bullpen and lands the 36-year-old Chapman. @ChrisCotillo said deal was progressing.

[Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal]

Source confirms: Red Sox in agreement with free-agent reliever Aroldis Chapman on a one-year, $10.75M contract, pending physical. First: @ChrisCotillo, @JeffPassan

[Noah Furtado @bynoahfurtado]

MLB front-office executives ruminated on NIL for years, dreading the day they might need to compete financially with colleges over talent in a way they never have before.

"Now it's real," an assistant director of amateur scouting said.

This new reality:

https://t.co/z6N1bB8662

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

Average MLB team revenue sources, per an MLBPA communication to players:

• 21% local TV (with range of 12 to 32%)
• 39% stadium-related (tickets, concessions)
• 26% central revenue (national broadcast deals)
• 14% "advertising, promotion, other"

https://t.co/1FPOzaGdWi

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

.@Dodgers RHP Blake Treinen says the root cause of the modern pitching injury epidemic begins in youth baseball.

[SuburbanDad @SuburbanDadGuy]

@Used_To_Be_GOP So many instances of deplorable behavior at Trumps behest, such a toxic influence

[Phil DiPirro @DiPirro77]

@maninthebooth1 @bkesling I'm very sorry for you, your father, and your entire family--that type of loss is felt for generations afterwards, I'm sure.