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.
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*pictured below, whiskey not included
-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
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.
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
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.
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
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
"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.
"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
"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 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
“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.
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
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
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.
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
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