Loved him as much as one can love a person you never met and had zero connection to aside from watching Webster.

I hear you. I buy the MLB package in spite of NESN and all that jazz. I love baseball. Not everyone, even passionate fans of their baseball teams, can or will do that.

Not in most packages, though. I paid through the ass to add it. I love it, don't get me wrong, but I can't fault the broader base of fans that don't buy into it for whatever reason - especially just to get one (incredibly significant) game they couldn't have predicted at the beginning of the season. It's horseshit…

I agree that MLB is the shit, but c'mon, to not allow a local simulcast of the game for people newly into baseball/Nationals? That's just sour balls on MLB's part.

Stick to Aniston.

I ran over one once, and it did not look that bad. In fact, it still worked, just with a somewhat bent screen.

As little as I like him (to confess, I loathe Lance Armstrong), I still don't understand the authority that the USADA has to strip him of the Tour de France titles. Logically, only the Tour should seem to own the authority to strip a crowned winner. Can anyone clue me in?

Thank you.

This is the kind of piece of yours I love, Drew. When you write from the heart and aren't filling a weekly column quota or series (i.e., "Why Your Team Sucks"). When you hate genuinely, you write your best.

I think taking everything to Twitter does that, but +1 regardless.

Don't see Trouble with the Curve. The opening scene is of Clint Eastwood trying to pee for what seemed like an eternity. It was the film's way of telling us, in the event that we did not notice from his appearance, or the faded pictures of past baseball greats hanging on the wall, that this was a movie about an Old…

What, the Ford C. Frick Award isn't worth anything on eBay?

Holy cow.

Agreed - I had the game on but was only half-paying attention and of course missed it. Really didn't think, even though it is the last regular season game of an extraordinary season, they'd waste this moment on a mid-week afternoon-er.

Shaughnessy, is that you?

I still haven't forgiven him for the torment that was Forces of Nature in a theatre. But just maybe Argo will finally earn him my reprieve.

So is Affleck going to become the Redford of his generation - too pretty as an actor but finds his way (and respectability) as an Oscar-winning director?

Ha, Richard Gere's "let's think positive thoughts for Tibet!" moment, from a man who couldn't channel a positive thought towards his agent for ten years. Classic.

+1. I also think it's ass that D.C. has a baseball team clinching first place for the first time since 1933 and it doesn't even warrant a stand-alone post - but a shout-out to a website survey from "Urine Feces Everywhere" makes the editorial cut.

Touché.