was the 2024 Baltimore Orioles. I seem to have been the only person who noticed this piece of history being made, so I wrote a piece for Slate about it, and more generally about the way we notice what happens more than we notice what doesn’t happen. But what doesn’t happen is just as important!

The best thing about writing this is that I got to have a phone call with moneyball hero and Orioles Assistant GM Sig Mejdal. I felt like a bigshot! And he was extremely nice and down to earth. I hope he wins us five championships in a row.