Grateful to share that I am a @NewAmerica Us@250 fellow for 2024-2025. I’ll be working on a story about @FoundryField, a ballpark and communal art project that amplifies history, creates new space for play, and both expands and complicates understandings of our national pastime.

I will be joining tonight’s @NDBaseball broadcast during the early innings to talk about South Bend’s Foundry Field and what I’ve been writing about it over the last year with the support of my @NewAmerica fellowship. @FoundryField #us250 #journalism #JackieRobinsonDay

Slava Ukraini.

Nah. I, and about every writer I know, love em dashes. We learn to edit against them in revision. If AI is overusing them it’s because it was trained on the pirated writing of many real human beings for whom the em dash is instinctual, artful, considered, and not always logical.

Today’s press box setup includes a memorial for the late Chris Mortensen.

As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.

This is the first piece of a book project I'm working on about Timothy MacCarry, a Catholic anti-war protester who died under mysterious circumstances in 1971 at the age of 22. It is, I think, a timely story. I hope you will read it and share it widely. therevealer.org/against-war-…

Those who come here risking life and limb to harvest the food that appears on American tables or to rebuild American cities after disasters should have as much claim to being American as any of us born into it do.

Yes, Mexico Has Deep Narco Corruption, But So Does The USA - Border Agents working with cartels - CIA has worked with traffickers - U.S. gun shops sell to cartels - Cartel snitches get sweetheart deals - U.S. banks launder drug money Read the story at:↓ crashoutmedia.com/p/yes-mexi…

It's true there is huge narco corruption in Mexico. It's also true that: - US gives sweetheart deals to narco snitches - US shops supply guns to cartels - CIA has worked with drug traffickers - US has biggest drug market in world - There are corrupt US police and border agents

What a wonderful story. A little dose of something that we all need right about now.

"As a catcher, it’s too easy to throw out a guy stealing. So I'd throw it to the CF and see if he could throw him out." #Brewers #MLB

"Part history, part murder mystery, part seagoing adventure—entirely captivating" nyjournalofbooks.com/book-re…

Are you looking for funding and a community of peers to help develop your next big idea? If so, then @NAFellows wants to hear from you! Apply to be a part of the 2026 Class of New America Fellows by February 3, 2025. 📝 go.newamerica.org/apply-new-…

In honor of @JohnAxford’s forthcoming Wall of Honor inclusion by the @Brewers, resharing my story about Ax’s last comeback at the 2023 World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball. Congrats, Ax! The Ax Man Cometh, Again. beltmag.com/the-ax-man-comet…

Coming to an exclusive wall near you @JohnAxford

Weird how these people still don't care if the output makes sense at all. Grimoires are books of spells, not blank pages. County fairs started in the 1800s. A golem is not a type of homunculus. Mountebanks are people who sell quack medicine, not persona shape shifters. Etc.

I’d give anything to be in a warm and friendly neighborhood bar in New Orleans right now

The soundtrack in this bar right now is giving major The Saint starring Val Kilmer vibes

When I returned to Milwaukee for that one fateful game in 2021, after blowing out my elbow and walking off the mound, I was emotional and unsure of what to do for days. Until one afternoon, Bob and I chatted in the food room at the stadium… he asked what my plan was. I told him my options; surgery and try again or walk away happy with my career. When I told him I didn’t know what to do, he told me “No, you do know! No one knows what it’s like to be out there! How much you put in. They’re not like us Axy! People just don’t get it!” He was fired up (there may have been a lot more swearing haha). He kept going. I listened. He was still a player at heart. Every day. He loved the game and the players in it. When he spoke to you on this level he was your teammate. His emotion, passion, and words that day resonated with me more than anyone or anything else. It lead me to surgery and an 18 month journey just to get out there and pitch one last time. He was right! In August this past summer I was fortunate to briefly chat with Bob in the Brewers clubhouse. Still as great as ever and still one of the boys. Laughing it up but also expressing that serious and empathetic side that people outside the clubhouse rarely saw. I’m happy I got that brief moment in time. Bob was an absolute treasure to the game. I’m so grateful for that conversation in 2021. I’m grateful for the time I got to spend with him in my playing career. Even when I wasn’t playing for Milwaukee he would take the time to catch up on the field before games. I feel lucky to have had such a legendary voice call so many of my moments on the mound. Hearing him say “heeee struck him out!” in those late innings to end a close game felt exhilarating. His excitement during those calls always made me feel larger than life on the mound when I heard them after. Or perhaps he was just happy I finally got out of the heart palpitating jam I put myself in to begin with! Haha. He called me Axy in person…one of the only people in the game to ever call me that! So in turn, I would call him Uecky! He made you feel special. An undeniable character through and through. Irreplaceable. An immense loss to baseball and the wonderful city of Milwaukee. We’ll all miss him. Love you Uecky