MLB

MLB can flirt with prediction markets, but after FTX and a fresh pitch-fixing case, baseball should keep its distance. Fans are already drowning in gambling ads, and this is how sports get unwatchable. Baseball doesn’t need another “innovative partnership” that sounds smart in a boardroom and feels gross on your couch. Rob Manfred has openly...

MLB’s ABS challenge system will roast players who swear they know the strike zone. Early spring numbers show challenges are basically a coin flip, and that’s the whole joke. Everybody wants robot umps until the players can’t stop challenging the wrong pitches. The helmet tap is about to become baseball’s new version of yelling at...

Dodgers fans yelling “cry harder” after Kyle Tucker are missing the point: nobody thinks you’re cheating. We’re mad at MLB’s broken setup, and it could cost us a season. You want the honest truth? I don’t blame you for celebrating. Your team just went back to back in 2024 and 2025, and then turned around...

Alex Bregman to the Cubs for $175 million with $70 million deferred is MLB at its most ridiculous: big-money flex dressed up as “responsible” accounting, and Boston got burned playing tough. The Cubs didn’t just sign a star. They pulled off the most baseball thing possible: spend like a contender, talk like a penny-pincher, and...

As I am sure you have heard, Stranger Things ended on New Years Eve. The finale was met with a wide range of opinions. Some people loved it, others hated it. I am of the opinion that the finale was mid. Really though the internet is trying to convince the world that tonight January 7th...

Every winter, MLB teams start talking spicy. “We’re going to be aggressive.”“We have the resources.”“We know we have to do more.” If you are a Pirates fan, you have heard this monologue on loop. President Travis Williams says Bob Nutting has opened the wallet. Ben Cherington keeps dropping “aggressive offseason” buzzwords. Agents hear that Pittsburgh...

The Mets have traded fan favorite outfielder Brandon Nimmo to the Texas Rangers in exchange for the surehanded second baseman Marcus Semien. On the surface this trade hurts because Nimmo was a huge part of the Mets for nearly a decade, but it may foreshadow what might be in store for the New York Metropolitans...