There needs to be a MLB Draft Combine, but for college student-managers instead of players. -who’s the fastest at filtering thru Synergy data and video -who can create the best scouting report -who can evaluate non-D1 talent Then MLB teams draft them to work in the front office

Airing today is the new PBS documentary FROM RAILS TO TRAILS based on Peter Harnik’s 2021 book of the same name! Narrated by Edward Norton, FROM RAILS TO TRAILS explores how community activists fought to turn defunct railways into spaces for recreation. bit.ly/3KJFROW

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"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."

Cleveland literally exists

Funny part of learning about various fire truck makers is that within a millisecond I can tell if it’s not an American truck, because it doesn’t look like it’s from 1995. Anyway here is a Swiss turntable that, compared to a standard US ladder sets up faster, fits in tighter

There’s a lot of discourse around Abundance. But here we have a vacant lot in the middle of Oakland, which has sky-high housing prices. Literally any housing, even super luxury market rate housing, would be an improvement on this vacant lot. That shouldn’t be controversial.

Sonny Rollins playing on the Williamsburg Bridge with tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator Paul Jeffrey in 1968. By 1959, Sonny Rollins had grown increasingly dissatisfied with what he felt were his own musical shortcomings and withdrew from the public eye to embark on the

John Coltrane rips through “So What”, reshaping the sound of jazz forever.

Can confirm

Bicycles sit surprisingly late in the tech tree, mostly because they demand tight metallurgical tolerances. It would’ve been impractically hard for the Romans to build a cycling industry, for example.

You’re not gonna believe this

There are hundreds of U.S. cities with populations greater than 50,000 that do not have train service. Meanwhile:

More of these, please. So many opportunities around our 50 states.

Fred Armisen and Bill Hader were breaking so much during the dress rehearsal for this SNL sketch where two Doormen tell Christmas stories, it eventually had to be cut from the show 😂

"A dude, playing a dude, playing another dude" the motion picture.

So much West Coast League involved in the big game tonight — as the league directors meet in Victoria

i finally did it: someone was talking on the phone with loud speaker sitting close to me while we were inside the bus. so I joined the conversation with full confidence. when she gave me that “are you mad?” look, I said, “sorry,I thought it was a group call since you put it on

This public spending has an extremely negative ROI. They will keep widening and adding overpasses for as long as our federal government keeps debt financing it. It is a racket. It is industrial parasitism and our great grandchildren are its unconsenting hosts.