Molly Knight

Los Angeles

Writer at The Long Game (Molly Knight)

I write The Long Game, a newsletter about baseball and mental health: SUBSCRIBE FREE HERE: https://t.co/xf17zbrZ1G| b*uesky: @molly_knight

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Announcements and a Thank You <3

2 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-First, some housekeeping before we dive in:I’m so excited to announce we finally have a book club Zoom date for Lords of the Realm! If you are new to the Long Game, we pick a book to read every few months and then we get the author to join us to talk about their work. I’m thrilled that John Helyar will meet with us to talk about his book over Zoom on Monday, May 12 from 5:30 PM PT - 6:30 PM PT.
Baseball Stuff I'm Depressed About

2 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-I wasn’t even going to write about any of this today because I woke up despondent, demoralized, and depressed. I’ve been railing against corporate greed at the expense of human decency my entire career, and sometimes it feels like I’m shouting into the void because nothing will change. Most of my colleagues stay silent because they are afraid it will render them unemployable in corporate media—and they’re right. But I’ve never been able to hide my feelings, for better or worse.
If you hate life right now, love it in the morning.

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Molly Knight

This is for you — the one feeling drained, a little lost, barely holding on. Maybe life has been heavy lately. Maybe it feels like you’ve been standing in the rain without an umbrella, hoping the storm passes before it soaks through. Here’s what I hope you remember: we’re all just trying. Stumbling, surviving, figuring it out as we go. And sometimes, life doesn’t come in gentle drops of rain — sometimes, it crashes down all at once.
Join the Long Game Over Zoom To Talk Baseball Today from 12 PM to 1 PM PT

2 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-I recorded a podcast with Joe Posnanski talking baseball yesterday morning and here it is! You can listen free here:Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
Thirty Thoughts on Thirty Teams

3 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-Some housekeeping first:We are still doing our book club discussion on Lords of the Realm by John Helyar this month. I will have a date for our zoom soon. Thank you for your patience!Also, I’m gonna experiment with turning our Sunday night chats into all-day marathon yap fests instead because Sunday Night Baseball can be…. hit or miss.
Join the Long Game over zoom to talk baseball from 12 PM PT to 1 PM PT today

3 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-We’ve had a lot of free and paid subscribers join our community over the past week, and I wanted to remind you all that we meet over zoom every Saturday to talk baseball with friends. Come hang out with us over zoom today at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET as we talk about the Dodgers hot start, Jackson Holliday’s hot start, Kevin Gausman returning to form, Max Fried’s Yankee debut, Nestor Cortes’ Brewer debut, the undefeated White Sox and more!These Saturday zooms are open to all paid subscribers.
Ten Bold MLB Predictions for 2025

3 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-Before we get started, you can re-visit my 10 Bold Predictions for 2023—which went pretty well!— here:You can also revisit my 10 Bold Predictions for 2024—which went very poorly!!— here:In both of those pieces, I seemed to do well-ish when forecasting individual award winners, and pretty terrible when trying to pick pennant and World Series winners.
One More Sleep Until Baseball!

4 weeks ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-I’m back from Japan and ready to talk baseball on this side of the International Date Line!In case you missed any of my coverage while I was in Tokyo, I’m putting it all here:Thank you so much for your continued support and your participation in our chats!Your overwhelmingly positive feedback on my reporting from Tokyo has put several springs in my step, so thank you. :) The reality is this trip was…not cheap.
Join The Long over zoom to talk baseball from 12 PM PT- 1 PM PT today

1 month ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

Hi friends-We’ve had a lot of free and paid subscribers join our community over the past week, and I wanted to remind you all that we meet over zoom every Saturday to talk baseball with friends. Come hang out with us over zoom today at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET as we talk about my Japan trip, the ghouls trying to erase Jackie Robinson’s legacy, pitchers who will start the year on the IL (Kirby, Darvish, Scherzer (?), Kershaw, Gil…and more).
The Dazzling, Wild Debut of Roki Sasaki

1 month ago | mollyknight.substack.com | Molly Knight

TOKYO —Hi friends,I went back to the Big Egg last night for Roki Sasaki’s major league debut. I posted in the chat that he was all over the place during warm-ups (bouncing balls in the dirt and pushing his fastball arm-side), and that I was worried he’d be wild. Well. His stuff was unhittable…when it was anywhere near the plate.