Apropos of nothing, I developed a seething hatred of Doug Gottlieb some years ago...maybe 10 years?...when I randomly tuned in to him hosting an afternoon radio show on ESPN radio during the summer and he was working through a long metaphor about how that year’s baseball season was like Lethal Weapon 3.

Troy Aikman chimes in: “Well, you’re exactly right Yinzeriffic.”

Okay, this time I “read for comprehension” (awesome phrase, by the way).

Where did you hear “weeks ago” that the Red Sox were “going to get Stanton”? Maybe stop listening to and vaguely quoting whoever told you that.

The ushers in DC are garbage people because one of the ushers asked your girlfriend to see her ticket when she was coming back to her seat.

1. If it’s at all feasible, go back and live with your parents for a bit and save a little base of money. Don’t start out playing from behind.

I’m not arguing at all that any spectator should confront him; they shouldn’t, definitely not.

I would say that’s a fair assumption to make. Confronting him might have made the Charles Oakley MSG ejection look like a tea party.

I would say if you “game plan” the scenario, if you’re going to send someone over to talk with him, you have to send a cop with them the first time, and probably kick him out immediately.

I would say if you “game plan” the scenario, if you’re going to send someone over to talk with him, you have to send a cop with them the first time, and probably kick him out immediately.

Yeah, I don’t know if you have kids yet, but that’s the kind of situation where fatherhood really changes you. Ten years ago I almost certainly would have mouthed off in that situation you describe; today, never, although I can do a lot with a silent facial expression.

Yeah, I mean to say the same basic thing you said. I didn’t make my point clearly enough...my fault. What I mean to say is, people can and will do openly racist things at public events like baseball games without it necessarily causing an altercation, precisely because of what you say. The vast majority simply (and…

Curious to know people’s thoughts on:

I listen to Eck call games several times a week, and when he is broadcasting, I feel something for the guy as a human that I don’t normally feel for a sports broadcaster. He’s of course wonderfully knowledgable and makes it fun by using all kinds of quirky baseball terms that he himself has made up over the years,…

I don’t think it’s that difficult to see why Price would be resorting to stunts like this. He’s probably overcompensating for not feeling very secure in his own role on the team, relative to the role he was signed to fill.

Gwen Stefani’s like, “I can totally relate.”

What would be the players union’s position on Carmelo Anthony forgoing money that he is contractually owed? I’m thinking back to when the MLB union said “No fucking way” to the idea A-Rod giving back guaranteed money to engineer a trade to the Red Sox.

It’s “article by Emma” not “article. Bye Emma!” you moron.

He seems so enthusiastic already, I’m concerned that any added celebration on the basepaths could take his mind off the game action and lead to a baserunning boner.

I had an argument with a Red Sox fan on Twitter last week who posited that Moncada would not be in the big leagues for a long time, if ever, and that he was “hard to root for” when in Boston, unlike Benintendi, who fits with Boston.