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Baseball, Unscripted: Live at the All-Star Break
Hi friends-
Earlier today and I went live to talk about the first half of the baseball season. You can watch the recording above.
Also, we are chatting about tonight’s game in here. This is a free chat for all readers. See you in there!...
For paid subscribers: come talk baseball with me at noon PT/3 PM ET today
One hour of yapping about baseball with friends
Hello to all our of new friends who joined the Long Game community as free and paid subscribers over the past week!
What it's like to go to an A's game in West Sacramento
It was a road game for the A's as Dodger fans packed the place to watch Shohei Ohtani. AKA John Fisher's dream!
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Arte Moreno fires Perry Minasian because he cannot fire himself
(Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)
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If you haven’t seen the announcement in our chats: there will be no Zoom today. We will zoom next Saturday at our regularly scheduled time (12 PM PT). See you then!
It is not easy being...
Would you rather be on the hook for Kyle Tucker's contract or Bo Bichette's?
(Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images)
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I’ve been holding off on writing this column, but we are now 76 games into the 2026 season, a large enough sample size to begin to draw some conclusions.
Last off-season, Kyle Tucker an...
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Molly Knight is a writer and author living in Los Angeles. Her first book, "The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers Wild Struggle To Build a Baseball Powerhouse" was a New York Times Bestseller.
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