J.P. Hoornstra

Feel like this is a great metaphor for the present state of our country

The U.S. is a hockey country now

Now updated that it's 8-6 Italy over USA in WBC as USA bats in 9th:

We can’t choose what we bequeath our children. If you’re the descendant of a Dutchman, that means above average height and a last name with letters that serve no earthly purpose.

Mariners’ Cal Raleigh breaks silence on Randy Arozarena’s diss in WBC Cal Raleigh insisted his relationship with Seattle Mariners teammate Randy Arozarena is like a lab-grown meat product: there's no beef. MORE: Randy Arozarena slams Cal Raleigh after he refuses to shak...

On the same day Cal Raleigh insisted there's no beef, the @mariners.com dropped their in-stadium food options. I'm getting mixed messages.

With Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes & Tarik Skubal each having appeared in a game, this is now officially the first @WBCBaseball with all 4 reigning MVP + Cy Young winners

'We’re scared.' Latin American players on edge as ICE tactics intensify Major League Baseball players and managers express fear and concern over increased immigration enforcement.

Apparently Eugenio Suarez had his citizenship application taken off the books because he's Venezuelan and his response was "it is what it is."

'We’re scared.' Latin American players on edge as ICE tactics intensify Major League Baseball players and managers express fear and concern over increased immigration enforcement.

Apparently Eugenio Suarez had his citizenship application taken off the books because he's Venezuelan and his response was "it is what it is."

Former Mets pitcher, 2-time MLB All-Star, announces immediate retirement at 35 A Colombian-born pitcher announced his retirement from baseball after pitching for his homeland in the World Baseball Classic. MORE: Breakout star to retire from WBC at 29 after Japan game Julio…

Distract yourself with news from Tehran with news from Teheran:

If that's how John Fisher got A's he would be far more sympathetic

The Magic Monday news cycle makes me wonder how one would turn "Barbra Streisand" into a stripper name.

Former Mets pitcher, 2-time MLB All-Star, announces immediate retirement at 35 A Colombian-born pitcher announced his retirement from baseball after pitching for his homeland in the World Baseball Classic. MORE: Breakout star to retire from WBC at 29 after Japan game Julio…

Distract yourself with news from Tehran with news from Teheran:

Who among us has not had a Sam Donaldson era

Rooting for Panama obviously

A Dan, a can. I saw Bob. Was I a can, Dan? A Canada.

The Dodgers optioned Ryan Ward and Ronan Kopp to Oklahoma City, and sent Carlos Duran, Carson Hobbs, Garrett McDaniels, Jackson Ferris, Wyatt Mills, Jordan Weems and Lucas Wepf, Griffin Lockwood-Powell, and Josue De Paula and Kendall George to minor league camp

I half expected the bat to land on the head of the batter walking up to the plate at the end.

Ozzie Albies walkoff HR #HONKBAL

When the WBC is at its best, it's giving people in Nicaragua a brand-new story around a person who already enjoyed wildly different storyline arcs in Boston, Los Angeles, and Cincinnati.

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

The real Olympic 🐐

Big fella could hit

Nine men who have never been in my kitchen

This #immaculategrid is a Seth Lugo WBC reference

Further proof that writing for work and writing for pleasure is a false dichotomy

I made a dad joke

Did I wake up feeling like getting banned from Slack today? Who is to say

It's a World Baseball Classic game for Great Britain, so you know Harry Ford is doing something big.

His solo homer ties it up in the sixth inning against Mexico.

Stay for the "changing of the guard" celebration.

Padres' Walker Buehler Reveals Shocking Health Update After First Cactus League Start San Diego Padres right-handed pitcher Walker Buehler made his Cactus League debut on Thursday, pitching three innings while allowing two runs. Buehler averaged

Walker Buehler hasn't been the same pitcher since his second Tommy John surgery with the Dodgers.

However, after his spring debut with the Padres, he revealed he was finally pain-free for the first time in years.

At just 31 years old, he appears ready for a second act.

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I'll allow AI into my life for 2 seconds if it can reasonably replicate Vin Scully saying "back home, he's a carpenter by day, a stevedore by night, and a father of eight. For now he'll be pitching to Bobby Witt Jr., Bryce Harper, and Aaron Judge."

Like, if you have to throw that image in print in black and white to fill a hole on an inside page, whatever. Let your cat pee on it in a few days. But when that photo hits the wire for broader distribution, that's not what anyone was signing up for in this enterprise.

In visiting Dodger Stadium, ‘Baseball Brit’ relies on the kindness of strangers Joey Mellows, a 34-year-old British-born baseball fan, is spending the season touring American ballparks. He attended his first Dodger games Saturday and Sunday, with some help from new-found frien…

Spring training is exposing one reason why I'm dismayed by the cuts to newspaper photography staffs. More and more, the task of photographing a subject is falling to writers. And writers, as we'll happily tell you, take the shittiest photos. Case in point: