+ New Baseball Card set added to the
Baseball Cards section:
2025 Topps Update. 350 cards with many rookies, rookie debuts, traded players and others who were not listed in the base 2025 Topps set.
Nick Kurtz and
Drake Baldwin are among the rookies. Many later-season debuts are not included and will be in the 2026 set, coming in a few months. (
Anthony,
Caglianone,
Misiorowski,
Tong,
McLean etc)
+ You'll start to notice player names at the top of the page (and in browser title), gradually change to include accents and suffixes. They won't be updated (yet) in the data grids and I'm not sure if I ever will. But every night, a few hundred players will be updated with their name listed as it should be listed.
+ The
University of Massachusetts baseball team is going with
2 Head Coaches for the 2026 season. Max Weir and Brandon Shileikis will guide the Minutemen. Will there be 2 men standing at third base? Will 2 men run out to argue with the Umpires? Will they change pitchers, 1 indicating lefty and the other righty? I have questions...
But seriously, I've seen this a couple of times in JUCO but have no idea how it works functionally. I know Michael Scott and Jim Halpert tried it on The Office and that didn't go so well. I am sure there is a good reason for this. According to the
Mid-American Conference web site (yes, UMass is now in the MAC), they are "acting" co-head coaches. Both have been UMass assistants at some point.
> You know I live in Canada. I do not like winter. I like heat. Maybe not Florida heat in July. But I like hot days. I like the sun.
Where I live. In Canada. It snows. This year, it snows lots. It started in mid-November. Not abnormal. But usually it disappears. It melts. Like a magic trick, it goes bye-bye. But it stayed. Like a talkative guest who won't leave your house. It won't stop. The snow keeps coming. Every 2nd day. Why do I tell you this? Because I decided, in all of my infinite wisdom, because I work from home, because I don't like having to clean/move my cars on demand, (I decided) to shovel my own driveway and not hire a company with tractors.
I just got back inside. 2nd time today. Heavy snow at the bottom of the driveway because the city piles the street snow in front of driveways. Haha it says as it passes by. A guffaw maybe. I went out at 11:30am and ran out of steam. You see...let me tell you something you may not know. Its one thing to shovel snow and gently throw it onto the side of your driveway. If you live in Maryland, maybe you have done that before. And its another thing to have heavy wet snow, and maybe if you live in Dover, Delaware, maybe you've done that too and just gently tossed that onto the side of your driveway, with a bit more gusto. BUT, its ANOTHER thing to have to heave that snow 6 feet in the air over the existing snowbanks from the other 42 times that you had to shovel snow earlier this winter (and fall!!!).
Its my own fault. I did this to myself. I have no one to blame. This is ALL my doing. And I'll likely do it again next year because its fun, its great exercise and it feels GREAT when its done!
