Thank you! Wow, I forgot it took them that long...

Interesting. Why do we think that there will be a lot of new voters this year? Is this the big anniversary of somewhere finally getting credentialed?

If you had told me this was the Hall of Presidents' 3.0 model attempt, I would have honestly believed you

I got it in my head somewhere that Rodriguez was already confirmed as unlikely to pitch in 2026. I can't find anything corroborating that now, but the existence of the trade makes me think it might still be likely anyhow...

I think a big part of the problem wrt streaming charts is that the concentration is still top-heavy. And no amount of recent buzz for big, new bands can compete with multiple decades of mythologizing and hyperfocus on "The Classics"

IDK. They're often not even fully wrong per se, it's just often the case where if your concern was ACTUALLY competitive balance stuff, you just wouldn't be taking that decision or approach at all! It's clearly post hoc

He spent a lot of the 2010s working with far-right anti-immigrant campaigns as part of a bipartisan challenge to end affirmative action in colleges (because you see, once you got rid of affirmative action, surely that would also be extended to legacy admissions as well!)

Oh yes, as someone notes in replies let us not forget the three bylined A1 story about hacked records provided by a white supremacist that showed Zohran Mamdani accurately described himself on an application to a college he didn't get into www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/the-...

Remember when, after 2016 when literally any inane trivia contained in a hacked email provided by Russian intelligence was considered per se newsworthy, in 2024 the media decided without explanation that publishing hacked emails would be wrong? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/poli...

I will also add, I don't think he's getting in, but I wonder if Gary Sheffield continues to see the kind of support he was getting on the BBWAA ballot