We took Marla Hooch to the batting cages to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "A League of Their Own." What a hitter! What a storyteller! My story for The Athletic theathletic.com/3384648/2022/0…

"You only have to spend five minutes around Tim at a ballpark to be infused with that feeling that he falls in love with baseball again every day. And because he does, he brings the rest of us along with him." Me on Tim Kurkjian - on his HOF weekend theathletic.com/3440209/2022/0…

The challenge was to summarize your team’s activity at the trade deadline in one paragraph. The Rockies were the one team that did jack squat. Yet Nick Groke, national treasure that he is, nailed the damn thing. theathletic.com/3474257/2022/0…

Only one Bahamian has ever pitched in MLB. Pirates prospect Tahnaj Thomas wants to be the second. And he wants to do it for his mother, who weathered years of chemotherapy -- and who died just before he signed a pro deal -- to send him toward his dream. theathletic.com/3497066/2022/0…

Excited to be transitioning into a talent development role with The Athletic this week. While I’ll miss being in the trenches with the MLB staff, I’m looking forward to nurturing our newsroom and being a coach, mentor, listener and cheerleader for our writers and editors.

Scott Spiezio was the Angels' World Series hero 20 years ago. For 13 years, he battled addiction. His children were adopted. He lost his money. He was arrested. He nearly died. Today he's clean & putting his life back together. Story from Morris, IL.: theathletic.com/3578407/2022/0…

The role of the sideline reporter is crucial to any broadcast, but there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes you’ll never see. The great ⁦Molly McGrath⁩ let me shadow her for a night in the SEC. We logged 10,000 steps and 4-plus miles: theathletic.com/3901449/2022/1…

Earlier this year, stats guru Sarah Langs announced she had ALS, a rapidly progressing neurological disease that has no cure. Then she kept living her baseball-obsessed life. On Langs, the people who love her, and how even now, baseball remains the best: theathletic.com/3987985/2022/1…

I know what images you’ve been fed for the last couple of years. But get one thing straight. The A’s aren’t moving to Las Vegas because the fan base is unworthy. It is the owner who doesn’t measure up. Column: theathletic.com/4433107/2023/0…

Meet the Crash Davis of the broadcast booth. Johnny Doskow spent 30 years calling minor-league games while dreaming of making The Show. His big break, of all things, was surgery on that magnificent nose. theathletic.com/4446269/2023/0…

“I think the game is better because of Sarah.” It’s a beautiful new Starkville. The great ⁦Sarah Langs⁩ on how her baseball family is helping her live with ALS and rallying around her to fight it. Apple: bit.ly/ApTABS Spotify: bit.ly/SpTABS

Spoke with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick (⁦Bob Kendrick⁩) about the firing of A's broadcaster Glen Kuiper, who used a racial epithet on the air. “I was hoping it would not come to that because in my heart it was a mistake." More: mercurynews.com/2023/05/22/neg…

Baseball’s most famous Las Vegas native has a lot of thoughts on MLB coming to his hometown. “I feel bad for the A’s and their fans,” Bryce Harper said. And, for many reasons, he’s not convinced a relocation will work: theathletic.com/4611968/2023/0…

Memories of Oakland, from The Athletic staff: *Marc Carig: nytimes.com/athletic/57862… *Eno Sarris: nytimes.com/athletic/57742… *Melissa Lockard: nytimes.com/athletic/57547… *Jane Lee: nytimes.com/athletic/57942…

Keep thinking how I wish I could call up Mychael Urban. He once wrote, “Good for Ball, Bad for Ball. You can attach either label to everything in life.” There was so much Good for Ball at the Coliseum. We don’t need to mention He Who Is Bad For Ball. nytimes.com/athletic/57942…

Cheers to Oakland. This pic from the Coliseum, established in 2018 with two of my favorite people.