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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 10h

a belligerent and unruly Clark the Cub was pronounced deceased after a police-involved incident. Witnesses struggled to provide a description of the inciting offense, noting that they hadn't seen "Cubs" and "offense" in the same vicinity recently.

Clark the Cub with ELIMINATED beneath his pic

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 22h

They say no one can hear you scream in space, but they don't say anything about people cheering as you're shoved out an airlock. Orbit's demise was the loudest reaction Houston heard all series.

Astros mascot Orbit with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 30/09/2026

the baseball gods reviewing the Phillies deadline:

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards meme

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 30/09/2026

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s an element to sports that sportswriters never weary of trying to capture, hacking through the kudzu of metrics and quotations to get at. It’s the paradox of a sense of overwhelming immortality, mixed with a sense of how fleeting that omnipotence is. Athletes hypnotize themselves into attaining it, fans slurp at it like a shallow oasis in the desert, writers build entire novels constructing a world to provide it. The Boston Red Sox lost a pair of games to the Washington Nationals by 15 runs around the end of June, and then seized that invincibility and held it for more than five full weeks, enjoying a run almost unparalleled in the history of baseball. It was like snorting cocaine while on a runner’s high after finding out you’d aced a college final and fallen in love, all at the same time.

Unfortunately, that time happened to be July, and by the end of September it was a happy memory. Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. And on Tuesday, the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down. For one day it was the Yankees who were invincible, led by the league’s best pitcher and a hitter whose resting face might best be described as vague concern, even as their captain stood with his elbows on the dugout railing. The New York Yankees are now, today and only today, the greatest team in baseball. But maybe not tomorrow. The gods need fresh meat.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 29/09/2026

I'm just some nobody, but I think if this is how you set up your corporate governance for an IPO you just shouldn't be allowed access to public money

Under this arrangement, a majority vote of the seven co-founders will direct a single share of Class F stock that amounts to 50.1% of the total voting power over key corporate matters, including the election of some board directors and other matters submitted to investors.
Anthropic's four other classes of shares have various functions or limits, among them minimal voting rights for the company's strategic partners. And while the ⁠Class A common stock for average investors will come with one vote per share, Anthropic's novel capital structure could effectively diminish the influence of everyday investors.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 27/09/2026

Everyone wants to have a glue guy but no one wants to know how they come to be.

Rangers mascot Rangers Captain with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 27/09/2026

shouldn't the Phillies be at Citizens Bank Park

vintage.newjersey on twitter

Runaway toilets at MetLife Stadium

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 26/09/2026

The Oriole Bird lost its life trying to stand in the way of one of the club's patented three-game losing streaks. Reached for comment, Mike Elias said it would be immediately replaced with a more fitting mascot: an apple-cheeked blonde man-boy.

The Oriole Bird with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 25/09/2026

The Pirate Parrot was identified as a form of AGI after it repeated several basic phrases back to some tech CEOs. It was first venerated as a god, then destroyed by its own believers. It's the first time in recent memory anyone believed in anything associated with the Pirates organization.

The Pirate Parrot with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 25/09/2026

months after search crews had given up, PAWS was discovered buried beneath pre-season expectations. He will be remembered. Not fondly.

Tigers mascot PAWS with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 23/09/2026

Ace earned his nickname in flight school. Like many other Blue Jays he was noisy, bold, and aggressive, in addition to being highly territorial. Used to patrolling The 6, the only territory to his name is now 6 feet under. He has been dishonorably discharged.

Ace, the Blue Jays mascot with ELIMINATED beneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 23/09/2026

TC Bear did not stop forest fires. He did not stump about with a love of "hunny." He did not wear a duffel coat. He was not smarter than the average bear. The last one is the only one that matters. Goodbye.

a pic Minnesota Twins mascot TC Bear with ELIMINATED beneath him

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 23/09/2026

Screech the Eagle has been tactically exterminated in what was supposed to be a dry run of the drone/sniper unit at the Triumphal Arch. We extend zero thanks for his service.

A pic of Screech the Eagle with ELIMINATED beneath him

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 22/09/2026

Scientific evidence suggests that fish do, in fact, feel pain. Billy the Marlin, though, felt nothing. He never saw it coming. He's now sleeping with the fishes. Euphemistically. Not like when a marlin is asleep near other fish.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 22/09/2026

The Giants have lost yet another member of their opening day roster, as Poochie has mercilessly dispatched Lou Seal for ripping off his whole deal. No jury could ever convict, Poochie is free to return to his home planet.

A picture of the giants mascot with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21/09/2026

this is very funny to me. "yeah we asked some fans which bank name they preferred and they all said the fucked up fraction with the "th" cusping sounded great"

Tim Spence, chairman, CEO and president of Fifth Third, said #Tigers fan feedback was solicited before deciding on the ballpark’s new name.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 20/09/2026

we're going to have a Big and Beautiful triumphal building, and it will look like a Hand and people love that. They love it because it's Hand, and they Nod in agreement, okay? So it's good.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 19/09/2026

They came at the king and they did not miss. Sluggerrr is no morrre. The crownhead lineage has ended.

Royals mascot Sluggerrr with the text ELIMINATED below

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 19/09/2026

Stomper has been identified by precogs as likely to commit crimes too heinous to describe. He has been erased. You may not speak of him further.

Athletics mascot Stomper with ELIMINATED beneath him

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 19/09/2026

Mr Redlegs has been compromised out of an abundance of caution after mainlining 9 straight days of manosphere related content. There are no mourners.

a picture of Mr Redlegs with ELIMINATED underneath

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 19/09/2026

Fredbird violated the natural laws of order and has been neutralized. He is survived by the things that keep you up at night. He will not be remembered.

a picture of fredbird with "eliminated underneath"

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 18/09/2026

they need to start making these graphics for everyday people. Just a dad in front of a trampoline park building with RESIGNED in a massive font behind him.

a screenshot of a youtube video with Steve Belichick in front of text that says RESIGNED

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 18/09/2026

@tgk.bsky.social it felt important to me that you saw this for some reason

“We know the capabilities that we have in continuing to grind guys out. Continuing to pass the baton and trust the guy behind you.”

Kyle Schwarber spoke with @Ken_Rosenthal about what the Phillies do well and his accomplishments in Philadelphia.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 11/09/2026

last-minute apple cake just about to go in the oven

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 09/09/2026

pulling this out of the comments, as I occasionally do, because I think it's worth addressing a couple things: 1) BP is not ever going to *merely* reflect popular opinion. We publish things that we think, and we reason and argue our way through them. Popular, unpopular, doesn't matter.

Craig
It's a pretty wild take to suggest that this site doesn't *acknowledge* the other point of view while also complaining that we spend too much time trying to refute it? What do you think the arguments against cap/floor that have been presented here are doing if not acknowledging that it is a popular solution among ownership and fans, and then attempting to reason against it?

Commenter:
Hey Craig, simple question: who on your staff if FOR a cap/floor/RS compromise in the new CBA??

Same Commenter:
Better yet, who's written an article in support of it on your site?? Considering recent polling has suggested it's not even a 50-50% issue among fans, which article or writer of yours has taken up the mantle for the majority opinion among fans??

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 08/09/2026

when you've successfully recruited @davidjroth.bsky.social for another edition of the Annual

From: David Roth
To: me

Fantastic choice. I hate it. That's a yes.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 08/09/2026

okay no one is voting for me on the top 38 for bsky or whatever but you BETTER SHOW UP FOR ME ON THIS THING www.threadless.com/shop/@thomas...

a shirt that says "World Cup 2026" but World is crossed out and "Craig" is written over it. the back says "It's Craigin' Time"

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 06/09/2026

Dinger knows what he did and knows he deserved it. He will not be missed.

Fox Sports graphic showing Dinger and "eliminated"

"Colorado Rockies has been edited out"

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 29/08/2026

look, this is obviously bad but it might be worth mentioning this was over a deal that was to be signed in 2029, which is, y'know, extremely not allowed and MLB should probably punish Cleveland for their part in it!