Counterpoint: Albies isn’t that good. 5 foot 8, 165 with some pretty league average numbers and an outlier in a money category, home runs.

At the Dentist office.

1989 was the vintage size with brown cardstock backs.  1990 saw them cut the size down to modern size and soon after that, it was white stock and full glossy with foil and all the other modern flourishes. 

MLB teams do not own minor league teams. They loan players and have 2-year development contracts with team owners. Affiliations between minor league teams and parent clubs can change often (Colorado Springs or not at all - Toledo Mud Hens). AAA players make $12,000 a year + per diem. Major league minimum is $545,000+.…

11-time stab wound recipient Paul Pierce leads Nowitzki, Wade, Bryant, Jordan and Lebron combined.

Or conversely, 259 people alive today that would have been killed by bad guys.  1 life saved per 896 guns stolen.

I have a white female coworker who more than once has been pulled over and threatened by police because she won’t tell them where she’s been or where she’s going (both times from home to her parents’ house in the middle of the day).  Literally had the situation escalated where the police are threatening arrest and…

It’s amazing how often police opt to kick down a door and shoot everything in sight, rather than calmly discuss and give space and time to de-escalate a situation.

Baseball’s stupidest move is blacking out in-market local team broadcasts on their paid app/ppv package. I don’t have cable and over-the-air games are a thing of the distant past, and MLB won’t let me buy in to watch the games. As a result, my kids have no exposure or interest in baseball.

This +1,000. But don’t forget that for a decade before that the commissioner and basically every beat writer has been beating the drum that any ballplayer experiencing a career year is a cheater and drug abuser.

Sorry you’ve never seen real baseball played in the NL.

Ting is just generic soda in a Ting bottle. All the little towns had a ting. For us it was Seymour and Werbelows and Black Bear and once in a while Ting if we strayed too far out of town.

Northern Wisconsin substituted Sun Drop in all the cocktails. Went through cases in the glass bottles every Christmas when I was a kid.  Kids got the big 16 oz bottles of soda with the floating pulp.  Everyone else got a little extra.

Birders are the worst.  Seriously less considerate and more destructive than any of the Pokemon Go players that were in the news.   They’ll drive across lawns, climb fences, tresspass and trample their way into any place with a sighting of the red fangled something hatch.  THE. WORST.

Love this take. Spot on. How about talking about the things that make baseball fun for a change?

Manfred has a hot date. Can’t wait around on these pitchers. He’s gotta go!

If batting averages are the measure of good baseball, perhaps pitchers should be required to throw underhand?  Ratings gold!  Game fixed!

Good idea, but then both leagues would be playing baseball.

Even the efforts to simplify MLB games sound like tax code.

It’s an unwritten rule. No one in baseball is allowed to have fun. From the emotionless “play the right way” veterans to the dueling MBAs in the front offices who are too busy modeling outcomes and market inefficiencies to watch a game.