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Ernie Clement almost beat Shohei Ohtani in the MLB All-Star fan vote this year and I need you to actually sit with that for a second, because it explains every single thing wrong with how this whole thing gets decided. The MLB All-Star Fan Vote Just Handed Ernie Clement Ohtani’s Spotlight Clement’s a good story,...

The World Baseball Classic curse talk is back, and this time it’s not even a stretch, because the actual tournament MVP is out here having a worse year than the guy who just got shredded for seven runs in four innings. That’s not a joke. That’s just where the sport is right now in July....

The 2026 MLB trade deadline is August 3rd, and the market is actually good this year. There’s a two-time Cy Young winner sitting on a 32-44 team with no path back. A franchise gave up two top-30 prospects six months ago for a rental pitcher and is now 34-42. A front office in San Francisco...

So I’m sitting there watching Canada hang six on Qatar yesterday and somewhere around the second red card, when Qatar’s down to nine guys defending a World Cup match with two fewer humans than everybody else on the grass, all I could think was damn, that sucks, and then about four seconds later the better...

I’m not sitting here and watching five teams waste this. The White Sox are leading the AL Central, the A’s are at the Wild Card cut line, the Marlins are on a nine-game win streak, the Cubs are half a game out of a playoff spot, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are right there with Paul...

Every Tarik Skubal trade conversation in baseball is about to get very real, because the man has back-to-back Cy Young awards, the best single-season K-to-walk ratio in the history of Major League Baseball at 13.14, went 18-4 with a 2.39 ERA in 2024 to win the AL pitching Triple Crown, then posted a 2.21 ERA...

Bryce Harper sat in a chair holding a bat last July while Rob Manfred talked to the Phillies about baseball’s economics. Harper sat quiet for most of the hour. Then he stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, and told the commissioner to get out of his clubhouse if the MLB salary cap...

Tatsuya Imai walked three of his first four batters tonight, loaded the bases in the first inning against the Texas Rangers, and got bailed out when someone hit into a double play. He then pitched five more hitless innings, walked a fourth batter, and got pulled. Steven Okert came in, walked a fifth Rangers batter,...

Juan Soto’s team is in last place. The small market teams in 2026 are the best story in baseball right now, and the New York Mets, who have spent something approaching half a billion dollars on payroll and luxury tax over the last two years, are doing more to make the case for them than...

FIFA just tripled the price of a World Cup final ticket to $32,970, for a tournament they promised would top out at $1,550, and Donald Trump told the press he wouldn’t pay $1,000 to watch a group stage match at the same tournament he spent two years championing. WWE cut nearly 30 wrestlers two days...

A Pirates Mike Trout trade needs to happen. Not explore it. Not ask around about it as a box-checking exercise. Go get him. I know how that sounds. I’m not walking it back. The Pirates are 10-7 and sitting in first place in the NL Central right now. Paul Skenes is the best pitcher in...

What an absolutely perfect video from the Penguins PR staff last night. Moments after the Penguins defeated the New Jersey Devils by a score of 5-2 the Penguins put out this video: All year the team has been asked about the script that was seemingly pre-written about them. Every period of sustained success early in...

The five-game win streak is over, the Padres handed the Pirates a 5-0 shutout Monday night at PNC Park, and the most honest conversation we need to be having right now is about this outfield. Not the bullpen. Not the lineup depth. The Pirates outfield defense. Because it is bad, it was bad before Monday,...

I love football in the snow. Always have. Watching two teams grind it out on a frozen field in January while guys can barely feel their hands is some of the best sports television you can find. The elements don’t ruin football. They make it. Cold weather baseball in April works the same way. You...

The Pittsburgh Pirates win 3-2 on a Nick Yorke walkoff double in the 9th inning and the best part is they did it on a day when nothing went clean. No home runs. Starter didn’t get deep. Bullpen had to bail them out. Still won. Baltimore had every opportunity to steal this game and the...

Konnor Griffin’s debut was today, and he walked up to the plate in the second inning of his, and he hit a double to center field. First at-bat. Kyle Bradish on the mound, a legitimate starter on a real big league staff, and Griffin ripped one to the gap like he’d been doing this for...

Oneil Cruz went 5-for-13 with three home runs and six RBIs across three games in Cincinnati, and the Pirates beat the Reds in two of them by the exact same score both times. Pittsburgh came into this series at 1-2 after getting embarrassed by the Mets on Opening Day and left at 3-3 with their...

The Pirates offense finally looked like what this roster was built to be. Four home runs, eight runs, an 8-3 final in Cincinnati the night after getting shutout by Chase Burns and looking like they would never score again. Bryan Reynolds and Oneil Cruz both went deep, and when those two are in the home...