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Friday Rewind: Pomp and Circumstance
Graduation day! This will be a shorter Friday Rewind than normal because, yes, this is a really crazy week. Today, in a few minutes in fact, our younger…
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Brilliant Reader Challenges: "Hamilton," 300-Game Winners and More
Another loaded week for the Brilliant Reader Challenge! The premise is simple. You send in a challenge. And I take on a few each week. OK! Let’s go…
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Going Deep on the Eephus Pitch
Today’s rabbit hole begins with a bummer — or at least I found it to be a bummer. On Monday, Jack Suwinski did an amazing thing, something that only…
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Wrapping Up “Succession,” and Ranking the Characters
Well, there are “Succession” spoilers in here. I’m sorry about that, but we’ve just watched the final episode, and it was brilliant, and I am thinking…
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The PosCast Newsletter!
OK, yeah, we bit the bullet. We started a newsletter just for The PosCast. It’s free, and it’s meaningless, and we don’t have any plans for it, and I…
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Friday Rewind: Limbering Up
Another busy week here are JoeBlogs! Sunday: Block Party. People ask me why I love golf. Well, here’s the Michael Block story. Monday: A Complicated…
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A Different Time, a Different Destiny
That day, Sept. 28, 1951, turned out to be one of the more momentous days in the New York Yankees’ glorious history. The Yanks played a doubleheader…
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Our Brilliant Readers Have Thrown Down the Gauntlet
Hi, everybody. So, last week I started a new thing that I’m calling “Brilliant Reader Challenge,” where paid subscribers get to challenge me to write…
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'You Can’t Know What’s Happening in a Man’s Heart'
Some years ago, I asked Buck O’Neil why he played such a pivotal role in getting Enos Slaughter elected to the Hall of Fame. You might know that…
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A Complicated Man
There were two superheroes in my life when I was growing up, and, as it turns out, both were connected to my Cleveland hometown. The first, obviously…
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Block Party
People often ask why I like golf as much as I do. It’s not easy to explain, because I don’t play golf, not at all, and you would expect anyone who likes…
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Friday Rewind: This Too Shall Pass
I need a little time to reflect before I can fully write about the extraordinary impact and titanic life of Jim Brown, who died today. Obviously, being…
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How Two Magicians Solved Baseball's Unsolvable Problem
Every now and again, a perfect story falls into your lap, one that hits all the interests in your life. This is one of those. This is the story of how…
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The New York Mess
The New York Mets have a 40-man payroll of $377 million, the highest payroll, by far, in the history of baseball. It is EIGHTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS more…
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