He’s right about the accumulators... why the fuck is Bert Blyleven in there?

I think I read once that Babe Ruth is the reason why there are holdouts for obvious guys today... the thinking being “Well, if Babe Ruth wasn’t unanimous, than neither should X.” I just wonder who decides to be the holdouts each year, or if it’s the same codgers sending in a blank ballot every year JUST TO BE SURE. It…

There is a small group of us who get it and can enjoy the show for what it is. Look, a billionaire dressing up as a bat and beating up criminals is just as stupid as anything happening on Gotham. This is the same universe in which a godlike alien puts on glasses and not even his girlfriend recognizes him. People need…

Clearly, he should have fell to the ground, rent his garments, and offered to commit ritual suicide. I mean, some people heard a word that is commonly used in popular entertainment and everyday conversation among certain groups! The horror! It’s Bull Connor all over again!

Advertisers are idiots. I know this, I work at an ad agency.

I am a longtime comic book guy (almost entirely Marvel but whatever) and I watch all the comics-based TV shows. I am also a fan of supernatural-type shows. And further, I am old so I am home most Friday nights watching TV. Given all that, I still didn’t watch Constantine. You know why? Because it was on NBC and I…

Dear Abby is on a second generation and over 50 years of answering virtually every question with some variation of “You should seek counseling”. The family has made a small fortune on non-answers. People like reading about other people’s problems, and I imagine most of the questions are made up.

Isn’t it just much easier for the two of you to throw in half? Then you don’t have to remember who paid last time, or that I paid at the Steak House and now Vito is buying at the burger joint.

Imagine if college football went back to what it was supposed to be: actual students who play a game on the weekends because it’s fun.

Get some video of that. Because in 8 years she will turn onto a teenage monster and you will appreciate some blackmail material to keep her in line. “No, you do NOT talk to your mother that way. Do it one more time and maybe your friends on the cheer squad see this.”

College football and basketball are ubiquitous

Bought a ‘80 450 SL for $1500 at a swap meet as a surprise present for my wife after my mechanic friend assured me he would do bodywork, paint and tuneup for another $2500. 2+ years later he has had to rebuild the entire engine, and the bodywork was intensely more involved than he anticipated. I am in for more than 2x…

So martial arts are now off the table because if it’s an Asian character it is stereotyping, and if non-Asian it’s cultural appropriation.

I got one of those for a birthday present. My wife wore it to Game 4 and forgot it there. I was too distraught (and boozy) to notice or care at the time; care less now. It only would have ended up in the Closet Shelf of Sadness next to the 2000 World Series giveaway bucket hats and 2006 souvenirs.

Yeah, there are way too many Mets fans in NY already lining up for 2016 playoff tickets. “Hey, we have all that pitching, resign Ces or get another big bat and we’re right back in it!”. I remember the visions of impending dynasty in ‘86. The “We’ll get ‘em next year” in 2006.

I don’t want Cespedes. My opinion of him is entirely informed by his AB late in game 2: trailing by three runs, he leads off the 8th inning and... just WAILS at the ball. Doesn’t even make an attempt to shorten his swing, get on base, start a rally. No, he was all about Me Me Me and trying to hit a 5-run homer. Pass…

You wanna criticize TC for something... how about leaving Cespedes in to finish his AB when he couldn’t put any weight on his leg?

Grown men who wear baseball caps other than when playing baseball or shielding themselves from sun should be shunned from all places where decent folk gather. Once you’re in your twenties it’s time to grow the hell up. You don’t wear a hat indoors, and certainly not to a bar or restaurant.

I guess we can cut them a break on account of being British and not knowing any better, but the New York Yankees are not decent by any stretch.

Remember when Borderline Personality Disorder used to be called “Being an asshole”?