In the year 2023, there are people on Facebook who wish happy birthday to all of their Facebook friends. I don’t mean there are still people who wish happy birthday to other people on Facebook — a perfectly normal, if antiquated gesture depending on your age and relationship with the…

As of the time I’m writing this, it was just reported that Edwin Diaz tore the patellar tendon in his right knee while celebrating Puerto Rico’s win over the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday night. Even before we knew the diagnosis, we knew it did not…

Three years ago in my adopted hometown of Jersey City, two assailants opened fire on a Kosher grocery store, killing three people in the store and a police officer who pursued them outside of it. The assailants were armed to the teeth and these attacks were premeditated, targeting Jewish people…

I’ve never seen the Mets win the World Series. I’ve also never had a kid. Let me reassure you up front: I’m not equating the Mets winning a World Series with the birth of my son. What kind of superficial jerk would do that? …

Baseball is weird. It’s easy to miss the forest of a season through its many trees. There are 162 of them, and that’s not counting the springtime bloom, or if you’re fortunate enough, the October foliage. But once that forest is sown? The bigger picture emerges and the previous six…

Angry Trade Deadline Fan is angry. Angry Trade Deadline Fan thinks his team didn’t do enough. Angry Trade Deadline Fan thinks her team gave up too much. Angry Trade Deadline Fan thinks his team should’ve gotten a lefty. Angry Trade Deadline Fan thinks her team should’ve gotten a righty. Angry…

I’ve been at this for 10 stupid years. That’s a length of time so long that AP Style dictates I write it out numerically instead of phonetically. Ten years. (Don’t worry, it’s still phonetic if the number starts a sentence.) Damn. A decade ago this week I covered my first…

Maybe baseball’s biggest problem can’t be solved with a pitch clock. Maybe it can’t be solved with a richer tier on the luxury tax. Maybe it can’t be solved with automatic intentional walks or PitchCom or the universal DH or replay challenges or limited mound visits. …

I’ve always been intimidated by The City. As a kid, my family would make regular trips in for Broadway shows and other assorted tourist attractions they wanted my brothers and me to experience—ice skating in Rockefeller Center, a horse carriage ride in Central Park, dinners in Chinatown and Little Italy…