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. And maybe that’s because…

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…

Tuesday, September 14 I had a thought this morning. It’s popped into my head every so often since I ran my April marathon, usually when I’m looking at myself in the mirror before or after a run, clad in my running gear. …

For some reason I waited until I was halfway done with my marathon training to start writing about it. I don’t know exactly why that is. I wish I could say it was something symbolic and poetic, like how the real race doesn’t start until you’re halfway in, so neither…

Risa took one extra half-stroke at the end, despite her coach’s instructions not to. “Trust your length,” Sonya told her a week earlier, assuming Risa had been listening, “and let your legs handle the rest.” Sonya was learning to be a more hands-off coach. She could not help her innate…

There’s a faux-stand up bit from Bo Burnham’s new special Inside where he asks: “Is it necessary, is it necessary that every single person on this planet, um, expresses every single opinion that they have on every single thing that occurs all at the same time? Is that…is that necessary…