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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...

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...

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...

When the air downtown felt electric, fireworks blew over the Allegheny, and black and gold wasn’t just a color. It was a damn identity. You could feel it in your chest. The Super Bowl was expected. The Cup was realistic. The city moved different. 2009, 2016, 2017. We were alive. That’s gone. Long gone. Now...