This is perhaps apropos of nothing, but it continues to amaze me how much the Trumps bring out the worst in all of us. In the midst of a cultural awakening about body shaming, we routinely and casually gild our substantive and valid criticism of the President, his family-administration, and his cronies with snide…

Elon Musk will be by next weekend to offer his assistance. 

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Literally every dude coming off the F train in midtown has one of these on this week.

This is a great list of recommendations. Thank you, Internet!

May need a separate thread for this, but it’s close enough: planning a trip to see the Cardinals and Royals in a few weeks. I seriously cannot find one person on the east coast with anything positive to say about either town. We figure to have a day or two in each and while much of our time will be taken up…

The post-game shootout was even less fun for the Russian players. 

I was scrolling down here to comment on precisely this line in the blog and you beat me to it. It’s just so damn perfect.

Is Billy in seclusion over this?

Great that she took it in stride, but he should be phired.  

With apologies for the heat coming off of this take, can we tone down the collective rending of garments over Trout not making the playoffs? For one thing, Trout could yet make the playoffs in any or all of 2018, 19, or 20. And besides, Mike Trout is a very good baseball player putting together a very great career! …

And yet no one in this country seems to be willing to do anything about Lavar Ball.

Hannah nailed the title. Please update. Thx.

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My favorite part is the quarter-assed attempt by this very good dog’s owner to corral him. She knew where that dog was headed and she was just fine with it. Who’s a very good girl?!?!?!

Tangentially related: at the younger level, I have begun to encounter coaches who instruct their pitcher to apologize or shake hands with a batter that’s been hit by a pitch. I skew pretty heavily towards the this-is-just-a-game-everyone-needs-to-relax end of the spectrum, but I have yet to follow this example. I am…

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In other shitty sports gear recall news, there was this gem from Queens this weekend.

Yeah, seriously. Everyone knows the dong follows the ding and not the other way round. Go back to Russia.

Oh it’s a thing. People who can’t decide between medium and medium rare - already a huge difference there - have invented a middle ground: medium rare plus. It’s supposed to be halfway between the two; in reality, it’s code for “I’m kind of a big deal.”