Hi everybody. Hope you’re holding up in these crazy times.
I apologize again for not posting here more often. I’m hoping for things to begin to clear up a bit over the next few weeks and we can get this thing rolling again. In the meantime, I wanted to mention a few things.
I’ve heard from a few of you that your free year-long subscription to The Athletic has expired and your credit card has been charged its renewal cost. I, unfortunately, do not have any first-hand knowledge about this, and if you would like to cancel or dispute charges, you need to email The Athletic directly at support@theathletic.com. I’m told they are responsive to all inquiries. My sportswriting appears at The Athletic and I hope you’ll keep reading. Here are a handful of recent stories:
Five Baseball Things: The Yankees, the AL Central and a plea to the Hall of Fame
Thoughts on the Novak Djokovic fiasco
60 Moments: Game 6 of the 1975 World Series
The angel that inspired Lou Brock (unlocked for everyone)
Considering Tom Seaver in baseball history
The Comeback: When baseball greats returned from World War II
This newsletter and blog is free. I guess that’s not much of a bargain if I’m not writing for it, but I do hope to pick things up here over the next few weeks and have pieces here focusing mostly on non-sports stuff.
Our oldest daughter and I have been binge-watching Community, and we’re hopelessly smitten by it. I think we completely ignored the show when it was actually playing because of my general aversion to Chevy Chase. There was a time when I got Chevy Chase, back in the Fletch days when he would do movies now and then with Goldie Hawn, but that’s a long time ago and I’m pretty sure seeing Modern Problems affected me in ways that I’m still not completely over. In any case, I don’t particularly like Chevy Chase in Community either but I didn’t realize that he’s really a small part of it, and the rest is just wonderful. When there seems so much to be happy about in the world, Community brings us nightly joy (though we are about to finish the sixth season, and there’s no movie yet).
For reasons I cannot fully explain, The PosCast is now weekly … and has been for several months now. I am fully aware that this is only adding meaninglessness to this already incomprehensible time, but if you’d like to listen, it’s a free country (I’m pretty sure). You can also find it on
— Stitcher
— Spotify
I mentioned this in the last update, but that was so long ago I thought I’d mention it again: Dan McGinn and I and the whole gang with Passions in America had one heck of a summer. We got to be part of two absolutely amazing Centennial Celebrations — one commemorating the birth of the Negro Leagues and one commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Please check the Negro Leagues Celebration here.
And you can find the First Woman Voter celebration here — take some time and watch a few of the videos if you can. They’re simply spectacular.
I'm usually cynical but I think $5 a month is very reasonable. Plus, I feel like a freeloader because I read Posnanski's articles for free for literally decades.
"This newsletter and blog is free. I guess that’s not much of a bargain if I’m not writing for it, but I do hope to pick things up here over the next few weeks and have pieces here focusing mostly on non-sports stuff."
Joe, you are THE expert in regards to both the Baseball HOF and the Negro Leagues HOF. Your takes on the Baseball HOF are LEGENDARY and should be required reading for all HOF fans. (I still reread your old posts about the Blyleven/Morris debates, your "breakdown" of the HOF, etc.) But with all due respect...that's basically all that I personally am interested in. Your take on Mike Pence or the butchering of American history known as Hamilton are inconsequential to me. You are the best HOF writer on the planet. Please, focus on that. In fact, I've been hoping you'd write a full book about the HOF. I can't find a single book that has the full voting results for every year of the HOF elections, much less actual commentary about each election. You should write a book about that! OMGosh it'd be so awesome! Do what you do best: write about baseball, write about the HOF, and don't worry "non-sports" posts.