I understand the arguments for making New York City into A Place Where We Put Garbage Into Garbage Cans. But think about everything we would lose. Like getting to see an empty bag of weed called Lemon Cherry Piss lying on the street while walking your dog.

New Pursuit of Dadliness is up today: I talked with the wonderful ⁦David Roth⁩ about Uncle Energy, Types of Guy, and being a fan of terrible sports teams. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

This book is really interesting, very much in the vein of Sam Anderson's Boom Town or Eric Nusbaum's Stealing Home. I will try not to ask too many questions about early Kansas City history, but make no guarantees there. x.com/rustindodd/sta…

It's just me and Drew on this episode and we covered a lot of ground in a decently substantive way, I think, especially considering that we started the episode with a debate about what does and doesn't qualify as "hand stuff." defector.com/the-coach-prim…

I wrote about the one type of TV show that streamers can't seem to make, which happens to be one of the types of show that people most like to watch, and why they can't make it. defector.com/background-tel…

Please join us for this one if you're around. We bought a bunch of old Starting Lineup figurines for the show but I don't know what we're going to do with them yet. x.com/DefectorMedia/…

We had the Namedropping lads on the podcast today and it came out very funny, I think. Or, anyway, I got to talk about the elfin coin magician who shared my name and we also got to discuss Mac Jones's self-defense dummy attributes. defector.com/pinning-your-e…

Here's ep 9 of 15 Minutes In Hell with David Roth. We talked about how evil the NFL is, how sports teams use stadiums to scam cities, and what the hell is going on with Las Vegas baseball. wheresyoured.at/p/15-minutes-i…

This began as an attempt to exorcise a particularly diseased post that was haunting me and became more of a consideration of where posts that bad come from. defector.com/caitlin-flanag…

It took some getting there but this episode manages to include two topics that get me heated enough to speak without too many caveats: credulous Heroes Of Capitalism books and the different types of good baseball team. defector.com/wild-cards-and…

I achieved some kind of hideous final form of myself by publishing 1800 words about The Exorcist and its (mostly) misbegotten sequels on a Saturday morning. Nowhere to go from here but up! x.com/DefectorMedia/…

I wrote about all the different things that the Orioles might be, if they decide to stop being the Orioles. Classic high-functioning Friday afternoon behavior. defector.com/nothing-is-pro…

I wrote about a lousy literary genre rocketing into its self-satire phase, and my hope that Michael Lewis's Sam Bankman-Fried book will someday be appreciated as a comic masterpiece. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

We've got David Roth back on the show this week to discuss media reactions to Israel-Gaza war, Michael Lewis' new book on Sam Bankman-Fried, and the career of wrestler-turned-almost speaker Jim Jordan soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-hou…

I wrote about the Diamondbacks, Baseball Prospectus's long-running prank war against me, and the fundamental importance and dignity of choosing not to quit. defector.com/when-you-avoid…

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Here is a thing I'm doing with 60 or so other writers and editors I admire a lot, a sort of distributed website that will either Restore The Internet We've Lost or just be a really, really good newsletter written by a bunch of different people. kickstarter.com/projects/thebr…

THURS 11/9 7PM EST JOIN Alex Squadron @russbengtson David Roth for Squawkin’ Sports at DSK Brooklyn. Hoops & Hops and books from Greenlight Bookstore. Tix here! greenlightbookstore.com/event/squawkin…