Wrote about pitchers hitting, life-hack philosophy, and choosing not to do the thing that obviously makes more sense The Hardball Times tht.fangraphs.com/embracing-inef…

the terrible thing about Belt Publishing is that I want to buy EVERYTHING they put out beltpublishing.com/products/minne…

It's been wild to move to Pittsburgh and see all these things - with which we're very well acquainted in Boston - starting to pick up speed here publicsource.org/filled-storefr…

sitting here in the Pitt Spanish department, cackling with delight

got to bat leadoff for the The New York Times music issue, and (again) chose to turn towards Springsteen. Wrote about playing a familiar song with no instrumentation in an echoing theater & also about how I'm fighting with the idea of a world without Bruce. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Long Relief: Remembering Ichiro by Baseball Prospectus Staff buff.ly/2FBcLgF

Honestly if they just boiled baseball down to “Votto and Puig hitting back to back” I would still watch it

The Pitt gym has the Weather Channel and the Dodgers on instead of Pirates-Reds, if you were wondering about the state of Pirates fever

these people employ hundreds of journalists and think we're all part of a mass conspiracy to hide the truth. you're our bosses--you can come and see!