✍🏽✍🏽 Changed the blog format up a bit of late. A few days ago it was a few paragraphs of a story I’m writing, yesterday it was a bit of housekeeping and something like a journal entry. Curious, this.

⚾ Today’s post at combatdavey.net is largely about the long, surreal, and sublime moment that has been the Blue Jays' postseason run to the World Series and I would love it if you read it even if you’re not a baseball person because there’s so much more than baseball in it.

Wrote a little post at combatdavey.net about the Blue Jays' fantastic art in advance of Game 1 of the World Series.

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

OpenAI’s AI-powered web browser is apparently being seen a challenge to Google and Chrome. Counterpoint: most people don’t care that much about browsers and every browser will have identical-ish AI features soon anyway.

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

If you don’t learn from it, experiencing failure has no practical value unless you have a humiliation kink, and while I ain’t gonna yuck anyone’s yum, this is not a quality I want in a ballplayer repping my town.

⚾⚾ LET’S GO BLUE JAYS clap clap clapclapclap

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

Audrey Hepburn once said “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Wanting to make things is more or less the same thing.

As a lifelong Jays fan, last night felt incredible. As a lifelong Jays fan who is also a lifelong Yankees hater… 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

Me and every other Blue Jays fan rn

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

We finished Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE on the weekend and not only do I now understand how fandom is created over the course of K-Pop survival shows, I am now predisposed to being a KATSEYE fan. It’s very, very good TV.

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

The “endless, always-on emotional support” provided by ChatGPT and the like isn’t actually emotional support but rather the outputs of a machine that most people are not smart enough, emotionally mature enough, or digitally sophisticated enough to use.

From yesterday’s post:

I don’t want this blog to be about the awfulness of the real world. I want to be writing funny things about about dumb stuff and/or linking you to useful, joy-inspiring things. But I am watching all of this crazy shit happen in real time with a horrified look on my face.

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air indefinitely because he told jokes and made comments about exactly who and what you think.

America is cooked, man. Just like, thoroughly cooked.

🏈🏀⚾ From today’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink post at oddball.blog:

It’s been almost 40 years since Washington beat Green Bay at Lambeau Field. Yes, Washington beat Green Bay in Milwaukee in 1988, but that game wasn’t at Lambeau.

🏀⚾🏈 From this week’s sports trivia questions at oddball.blog:

Seven (7) active NFL players have more than 9,925 career receiving yards but only two (2) of them have only played for one team over the course of their careers. Who are they?

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

Sometimes I just like to talk about things I remember so that I continue to remember them […] and sometimes, like today, I want you to know that if we are friends, regardless of what time does to that friendship, I will still remember you in 28 years.

🏀⚾🏈 From today’s post at Oddball:

Last night Alyssa Thomas became the first player in WNBA history to have 15 or more assists in consecutive games [and] the first player in WNBA history to have a 10/15/15 game.

Also:

Ralph Sampson thinks he’d average 30/20 in today’s NBA, which is adorable.

⚾🏀🏈 From this week’s trivia over at oddball.blog:

I hope the person that diss is about reads this post, but I don’t think they will for reasons including but not limited to that it contains at least one three-syllable word. He’s catty today, folks! Watch out!

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

I haven’t done this here (yet?) for reasons including but not limited to that I don’t use Spotify anymore. Still, I’m considering bringing that kind of feature to this blog. I miss curating something cool and sharing it with people.

This week’s Oddball trivia: oddball.blog/oddball-trivia-8-19-2025 🏀⚾🏈
Today’s odds-and-ends post at combatdavey.net: combatdavey.net/august-19-etc

Keywords from today’s odds and ends post over at combatdavey.net (in alphabetical order): cantaloupe, chatbot, death, dogs, gift, MySpace, Queens, sociopathy, Taskmaster, trivia.

Here are the answers to Tuesday’s trivia questions over at Oddball. 🏀⚾

Keywords from today’s QH post over at Oddball: plakata, Beyoncé, bomb, hellsite, Christmas, pink. 🏀⚾

As @cheesemaker and a few others know, I recently revived a sports trivia passion project of mine. Today’s questions are up. and answers will be posted on Thursday. May the odds be ever in your favour. 🏀⚾

Been writing short “hey look at this cool sports thing” posts over at my sports/trivia/sports trivia blog. Here’s today’s: oddball.blog/quick-hits-5/ 🏀⚾🏈

I’ve been writing “quick hits” posts over at my sports/trivia/sports trivia blog to keep up with the doings and transpirings across the sports world. Here’s today’s: oddball.blog/quick-hits-4/ 🏀⚾

Continuing work on the Oddball reboot. Here’s a new post of little morsels for your morsel hole. 🏀⚾

When you’re middle-aged like, you don’t get as many opportunities to do something for the first time. You’ve tried [topping] on a pizza, you’ve visited [city/country], you’ve seen [movie] etc. Today is the first time I’ll ever go to/be at a Blue Jays game (in Toronto) while it is snowing outside. ⚾🥶

Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapclap Let’s go Blue Jays! clap clap clapclapcla

I’m not one of those “the front office is so stupid, they should just _____________” fans, and I’ve generally defended the Blue Jays front office as a lot their moves have been good, but not being able to extend Vladdy given the $$$ we were offering FAs might end up being a franchise-altering fumble. ⚾

Scherzer is a Blue Jay! ⚾️

I co-wrote a sports trivia newsletter with a friend for a few years but eventually life got in the way and we had to go on hiatus. This weekend we’re meeting up to discuss a revival and I couldn’t be more excited.

I know everything seems really dark and fucked up, and it is, but the mere thought that I may get to go to my home ballpark, on, say, a Sunday afternoon, and watch Max Scherzer pitch while wearing my team’s jersey fills me with a strange kind of joy. ⚾

It’s lame that the Dodgers got Sasaki, but the way people seem to be upset about how the team with the most money has a huge advantage over the teams with less suggests they don’t know how America works. ⚾️

Somehow, losing Bob Uecker and David Lynch on the same day makes thematic sense. Both were true originals who coloured outside the lines and not only were they not punished for it, they were celebrated. There’s a lesson there, but I’m not sure it is applicable to our terrifying present.

Baseball just lost a real one. ⚾️

The number of times I’ve read the (untrue) Rickey/Olerud story over the last few days is wild. I get it. It’s fun. But sports discourse on social is generally bad because it’s just cOnTeNt now. Reposts of reposts, bad takes, bad faith takes. Especially the recent 🏀 stuff.

Rickey played a cautious sport with abandon. Rickey played a timid sport with flash. Rickey irritated and thrilled and frustrated and dominated and left us all wanting more.

If you’re also bummed about the death of best leadoff man ever, read what Joe Posnanski wrote and reminisce. ⚾