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MLB rule changes work. More than half of ABS challenges this year are getting overturned, which means umpires were wrong more than half the time somebody pushed back on a call. The pitch clock cut 25 minutes off the average game. ABS is working on day one of its first real season. There are four...

Sorry I’m a little late on this one. I was busy watching a team that actually wins. Penguins business. But I’m back now, and apparently I didn’t miss a damn thing worth celebrating, because the Pittsburgh Pirates offense just got shut out at one of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in baseball. Four games into a...

The Pittsburgh Pirates avoid sweep of the opening series, win their first game of 2026, and get out of New York with something to build on. Final score 4-3 in ten innings at Citi Field on Sunday. Carmen Mlodzinski was the best Pirate on the field, Brandon Lowe hit another home run, and a relay...

I have been watching bad umpires get away with murder for my entire life as a sports fan and I have never once seen any of them face a real consequence. That changed three days into the 2026 MLB season. ABS umpire accountability is not a theory anymore. CB Bucknor went behind the plate for...

I said it all winter and nobody wanted to hear it. The Pittsburgh Pirates season is two games old, they are 0-2, they just got walked off by Luis Robert Jr. in the 11th inning on a three-run shot off Hunter Barco, and every single person who spent the last three months telling me this...

The Pirates Opening Day loss was 11-5 and if you watched that first inning, you already know the season is going to require a lot of patience. We were told this was a different team. We were told the pitching was the foundation that would carry them. What we actually watched was Paul Skenes get...

PNC Park food 2026 is exactly what you’d expect from a franchise that has finished under .500 six years running. While parks around the league are doing Kobe beef hot dogs with Luke’s Lobster, two-pound burgers stacked with braised short rib, and machete-sized quesadillas, the Pirates looked at Pittsburgh’s food culture and came back with…...

The Dodgers are going to win the World Series again, and most of the baseball world already knows it. They were the two-time defending champions before Opening Day even started, and then they went out and signed Kyle Tucker for $240 million and Edwin Diaz to close games. Nobody is stopping this team. But let...

The Dodgers are not unbeatable. They keep surviving things that should end them, and at some point surviving and winning stop being the same thing. Four separate moments in Game 7 had to go their way on the same night just to reach extra innings at Rogers Centre. That is not a dynasty operating at...

Rob Manfred called a lockout “a positive.” The commissioner of Major League Baseball looked at the idea of shutting his own sport down and used the word positive. Tony Clark, the head of the players union, just resigned in disgrace four days ago after getting caught in a federal investigation involving his sister-in-law he personally...

The MLB 2027 lockout odds just jumped because the players’ union lost its top voice at the exact moment it needed to look bulletproof. Tony Clark resigned this week, and the reporting around it is not the kind you file under “messy breakup” or “awkward office email.” It includes an internal finding of an inappropriate...

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...