Adam Knight

MADE OF IRON: The Dina Jacobson Story. Due out 8/19/24!

@OleTimeHardball I know he's hardly a star, but Jhonkensy Noel as "Big Christmas " is perfect.

What’s your all-time favorite MLB player nickname? 1. Mad Hungarian 2. Iron Horse 3. Left Arm of God 4. Splendid Splinter 5. Georgia Peach 6. Say Hey Kid 7. Ryan Express 8. Mr. Cub 9. Sultan of Swat 10. Write in another nickname

@OleTimeHardball When I see this question, my reaction is always "Jose Fernandez. "

Who is the most “what if” player in MLB history? Drugs, injury, etc. 1. Eric Davis 2. Dwight Gooden 3. Mickey Mantle 4. Mike Trout 5. Don Mattingly 6. Herb Score 7. Sandy Koufax 8. Mark Prior 9. Josh Hamilton 10. Pete Reiser

@MLB @Orioles Let's go O's!

It’s giveaway time, Baltimore 💪 We are giving away a new Orioles City Connect jersey just for you! Repost and reply for your chance to win!

@45PedroMartinez I know it's recent, but last year's #Orioles walkoff after almost being no-hit. A bright moment in a terrible season.

What’s one baseball moment that still gives you chills? Go! ⚾

@LefkowitzSyS @Hotshot_Movie I think what made PKD stories great are the ideas, the premises, the concept. You don't read it for the fine prose. Perfect fodder for adaptation.

@Hotshot_Movie Phillip K. Dick novels and short stories are a great example of that idea. Hard to read, but made brilliant when cultivated by good screenwriting, direction and acting.

When I was working on Sideways (which was adapted from a book), I asked the director, Alexander if the book were any good. "No it sucks. You don't adapt great books. You adapt shitty books that have an interesting premise, or a kernel of something that you can exploit and improve. Good books don't make good movies. You have to build a screenplay from the ground up. And nobody is gonna be mad at me for changing the details of a Rex Pickett novel. But God help you if you try to change 2 words in the Lord of the Rings." Brilliant dude.

@RotoSurgeon Coby Mayo finishes a Top 5 3b

fantasy baseball bold predictions?

@RotoGut Semien

This Year’s Yelich Tomorrow

As this mess deepens, it’s becoming increasingly clear to me that we’re all characters in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin. If you haven’t read it, it will help you understand the context of your own life. Guaranteed.

Gormenghast is the greatest work of fiction you’ve never heard of. The story of a vast castle & the strange family who lives there, it reads like a collaboration between Tolkien & Dickens and features one of literature’s great baddies. A work of mad genius, abundant in pleasures

@Roto_Frank Last year I tried the "Franken-ace" strategy and it flopped. How can I make it work?

What are some things you'd like to hear about on a 5x5 Roto strategy podcast?

@DennisR1954 @tylerbarberis_ Ryan Mountcastle for Brady Singer

@tylerbarberis_ Ryan Mountcastle. Hang on to Mayo, and teach him to play corner outfield. That way when O'Neill is on the disabled list again, he can help you there as a right handed hitter.

Who’s one player you’d be okay with the Orioles trading away for a pitcher (starter/reliever) and why?

@dionjerrod Thanks! My idea was to retell the Titanic story as cosmic horror. It's a pretty weird novel, and I say that with pride.

@AdamKnightBooks Dude, I love that you're trying to bring a new Titanic story to the market. Always felt there's so many angles that tragedy could take.

Raymond Redstreet is imprisoned in an insane asylum for claiming that the Titanic was sunk by a black magic cult. With the help of his renegade psychiatrist, he must stop the cult from striking again. #questpit #H #Q #S #DR

@TomRameyTales I hope that can happen!

@AdamKnightBooks I'd buy it.

@chelseascottbks Thanks! My idea was to retell the Titanic story, but make it dark. And weird.

@AdamKnightBooks Intriguing premise 👀

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Thinking of Dina Jacobson and the other survivors on this day.

Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.