If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

The next question is: just how terrible are the internal polls that have him unraveling this badly?

Erik Sabrowski enters for Williams and sets down Murakami swinging to end a bases-loaded threat. Williams ties Charles Nagy's franchise record for strikeouts in a postseason game, going 5 2/3 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 12 K, 1 HBP in a performance that will live on in Cleveland lore.

Final: Guardians 2, White Sox 0 The Guardians are off to the ALCS for a matchup with the Rays, and improve to 3-9 in win-or-go-home games Cleveland is four wins away from a trip to the World Series, 10 years after its most recent

José Ramírez is the most slept on star in baseball, and has been for years.

If I recall correctly, his hustle won a 1-0 game in the closing weeks of the season. He stole second and third before beating a tag at home. He's one of those rarest players whose actions elevate the entire ball club.

Gavin Williams has 11 strikeouts through five innings on 72 pitches.

11 of the first 15 outs by strikeout. Gavin Williams is cuh-RAAYZEE tonight.

Gavin Williams will be the 6th pitcher since 1945 to record the last out of a game & then start the next game within a postseason series, joining:   2021 NLCS G3-4 Jesse Chavez 2019 ALCS G5-6 Brad Peacock 2001 NLDS G2-3 Miguel Batista 1957 WS G5-6 Bob Turley 1945 WS G6-7 Hank Borowy @EliasSports

Lots of awful in the world so we have to take our wins where we can get ‘em, even when the victories are small. Jerry Jones is unhappy today. Miserable, in fact. This is a win.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

Merry Fucking Christmas, everybody.

Hey, all the cool kids attending @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social—stop by booth 3417 and get your horror goodness from Storm King Productions! Will see you today and tomorrow.

They had better get that damn fool out of the park right now.

Nobody's house should be burned down, of course, but if the Yankees don't announce they know who he is and he's banned for life ...

A few of those ended up changing the game and elevating the art form. Imagine that…

Exactly so. If not for an audio-visual medium to showcase his bombast he'd have been relegated to low-level regional sports coverage. To my eye, he understands the entertainment part of the job more than the actual mechanics of any sport.

Lane Johnson is a Hall of Fame offensive lineman. He has done things purely on the power of his mind that would leave Stephen A. Smith crying. I think Smith would do well to ensure he and Johnson are never in the same room.

YES!

Indeed. And that's why I stopped doing that in my fifties.