Sam Jefferies

Author, LEGACY ON ICE: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth 🎗️

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Get yourself a puck signed by @BlakeGeoffrion!

Just send me a DM screenshot of your purchase of Legacy on Ice (dates starting today, January 12) and your address, and I'll mail you one.

https://t.co/SMR3HzXs6D
*pictured below, whiskey not included

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Pantomiming headphones for replays should be banned by constitutional amendment

[Teddy Gangi @tedgangi]

-Travel ball
-Roof closed when it's 71° and clear
-World Series celebrations for regular-season wins
-Sacramento A's (ATH)
-Pantomiming headphones for replays
-City Connect slop
-Sky points on infield hits
-BP ending before gates open
-Paying a premium to watch through a screen
-Dugout suites
-Home market blackouts
-A-Rod's Emmy Award
-A racist statue
-Draft Kings/Fan Duel
-Kalshi/Polymarket
-Fanatics

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Decades from now @BariWeiss will be best known as a destroyer of greatness.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Everyone knows this just do it please no one can eat or read

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Yeah, you know what? ban phones from schools. I'm sold

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Just waiting for the next jackboot to drop

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

🙋‍♂️ Umm what can be worse than being an actual Nazi?

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

This piece shook me to my assistant Little League coach core.

I agree, Tim. The first-base coaching box is one of the grandest places in the world. I've shared this with a number of the guys I've coached with. Truly moved, each and everyone one of us. Thanks for writing it.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

The point was not making the major leagues. The point was forming boys into men. It was teaching them to improve through effort, to play fair and play hard, to learn from failures, to celebrate others’ successes.

Maybe more importantly, the point was boys having fun with Dad. https://t.co/ptOESZISvb

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Utah plates

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Seattle’s Link Light Rail service was suspended after a driver somehow ended up on the tracks at Mount Baker Station, an elevated platform roughly 30 feet above street level.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

1. Round Robin Bar - DC

2. Plaza Bar - Madison, WI

3. Campbell Apartment - NYC

4. Leny's Place - Seattle, WA

5. The Bierstube - Big Mountain, MT

Honorable mention: The Dinghy Dock Pub in Nanaimo Bay, BC

[Ricardo Caliente @ricard0caliente]

Top 5 Favorite Bars in the United States

1. Ocean Mist - South Kingstown, RI

2. Vincent’s - Worcester, MA

3. Butch McGuire’s - Chicago, IL

4. D’Jais - Belmar, NJ

5. The Hot Club- Providence, RI

[Jason Brough 🙁 @SadClubCommish]

Good game big fella

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

The stuffed animal never forgets

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

One of these was a goal, one of these missed the net...

Sports.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

"They escaped, and now I live in a place where escape is a way of life. It’s slow and it’s fast paced all at once and it often feels that even with all the movement, nobody’s really going anywhere. Where is there to go, anyway? You’re in Miami now."

Hell of a piece from Alex.

[Alex Perez @Perez_Writes]

I wrote about the other Miami.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

"You’re looking at maybe five years of minor league ball, and then you could be tendered, non-tendered, they can re-sign you for a year. You might be making anywhere from 10 to 50 grand in the minors." Andrew McCutchen wrote about this 10 years ago https://t.co/LWPRyEnP8T

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

"I had the good fortune to be drafted by the Pirates in the first round, but I spent four years in the glamorous towns of Williamsport, Hickory, Altoona and Indianapolis. A lot of talented kids look at that lifestyle and compare it to the bright lights of Florida State or OSU" 1/

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The percentage of Black players in the MLB hasn’t been so low since shortly after integration. Can reviving a controversial Negro Leagues team challenge what the game of baseball—and a baseball player—can look like? @josh_levin reports: https://t.co/eR6qtnY7Ss

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

“Okay, I could get a free college education and be on ESPN, or I could spend five years eating cereal for dinner and trying to hit a 90-mile-per-hour fastball in Altoona.”

People talk about the big, guaranteed money in baseball, and I certainly feel blessed that I am where I am.

[Bartolo Colón @BColon40]

@Mets I might have more in the tank.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

But baseball is dead, Jon

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Viewership for national exclusive MLB games through the first weekend of May is 2.28 million, a +44% increase over last year and the best start in 9 years

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

Maybe California just shouldn’t have a governor at all.

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

There are only two pieces of required reading on Derby Day: @ngreenberg and Hunter S Thompson

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

I was Halloween costume shopping with my kids listening to the game and grabbed a guy wearing an Ms jersey by the shoulders and yelled "JP BABY" in his face and in hindsight I was the true horror he faced that year

[Oh, That One Game @OhThatOneGame]

Oh, that one game when the Mariners came back from down 8-1 against the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALWC to win the series.

That team was special 🔥

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Taught my daughter how to score the last few years, and last winter she got her own scorebook (Madison, WI-based Numbers Game makes a great one). We scored a Mariners game Opening Weekend this year, made sure to check in at the Niehaus statue after the final out. Special moment.

[✏️Jacob Feldman @JacobFeldman4]

MLB is having a moment for the exact same reason that baseball scorebook makers are seeing sales double.

In our hyper-connected digital age, people are yearning for a bit of the phone-free, slowed down past. An afternoon at the park offers exactly that

https://t.co/lRFpeEbAO9

[Sam Jefferies @JefferiesSam]

Howie Morenz is the Babe Ruth of hockey.

The Rocket is The Rocket. No more superlatives needed.

[Games with Names @gameswithnames]

What's your Mt. Rushmore of French Canadian Hockey players? 🤔🏔️