Sooner or later players are gonna have to get past their arrogance and start bunting against the shift. I think guys feel like that’s cheap and beneath them. Or maybe they just figure a couple of bunt singles won’t do as much for their next contract as a couple of home runs.

Revenge for ‘84.

In case there was any doubt, he also clearly states “I love you” to TC.

I almost never watch ESPN and particularly avoid this guy, but caught a little commentary this weekend. What the hell is going on atop Berman’s head these days? He’s got what looks like a thin pad of brillo on the crown, and it extends down into a bizarre foam pad mullet. It was weirder than Trump’s ‘do.

I worked for an old Jewish guy, and one Monday he was telling me about his basement renovation, griping how much he had to pay the guy to pull up his old carpet. I asked why he didn’t do it himself and he said “My people don’t do things like that... we hire your (Italian) people.” I didn’t know if I was supposed to be…

Old guys have precious few joys in life. The tallywacker doesn’t work like it used to, and the wife looks like George C. Scott in Patton anyway. Doc says they can’t eat anything fatty/salty/sweet/spicy/tasty, should switch to decaf, and need to cut back on the booze - and don’t forget that test on Tuesday!. Most of…

Fantasy Player Who Deserves To Die A Slow, Painful Death

Game 6 never gets old. I still cheer that rally like it’s happening live. I read a great line somewhere - that watching Buckner lumber around in the pregame is like watching film of the Titanic launch.

The floor in the urinal area at a sporting event is covered in pee and dirt. You’re letting your pants marinate in that, and then picking them up and putting them back on? You presumably ride home in your car, maybe sit on your sofa when you get home.

I lived in a house with 9 guys and one bathroom last two years of college. Because of logistics it was forbidden to lock the door, and you got used to laying cable with an audience real quickly. (Or you adjusted your schedule so you could use school toilets.) On a Friday evening you’d have one guy showering, one guy…

Yeah, it’s the outnumbered-20-to-one Mets fans starting those fights.

“I’m well aware that pretty much all the teams in my town are dumpster fires right now.”

“Best you can hope for is a strong support group to care for them and find appropriate help when they have psychotic episodes.”

Trader Joe’s makes this coffee and garlic bbq rub, which I highly recommend.

Sometimes we get too busy/lazy/exasperated to deal with dinner and order the meh pizza from the guy a few blocks away. I am intrigued by this discussion and next time will apply grape jelly to a slice just to see what happens.

One of my college buddies came home with me for a weekend. Saturday night we’re having sausage and peppers, and he asks for mayonnaise. My mom said “Why, you’re not having sausage and peppers?” and he said “No, I always put it on sausage” and proceeded to slather about 1/3 of a jar of Hellman’s on the Italian bread…

I grew up and still live in NYC. We always called the beach near my house “the beach”. Ditto for anywhere else on earth: Long Island, Florida, California, the Caribbean. But for some reason everyone always calls all the Jersey beach towns (LBI, Manasquan (ugh), Belmar, etc) “The shore”. No idea why.

This was their first year, summer of ‘92, in their old location not near Beach Haven. It was a little shack, and it was BYOB. Which we did for this expedition. Not sure if that helped.

They had pictures up of us on the wall for years, even after they moved to the current location. I was immortalized - shirtless, face and chest smeared with sauce, early-90s mullet soaked with sweat in wild disarray, standing up and screaming at the cameraman. Good times. Except for explosive diarrhea.

Anyone old enough to remember Beefsteak Charlie’s and their All-you-can-eat shrimp and rib (or chicken) dinners? With the unlimited beer, wine and sangria? Went with my family when I was 18. They were half-racks of ribs. When the waitress brought me #2 I told her “Y’know what, just keep ‘em coming.” My family stared…