+1 Widdle Piddy ~ Tweety

Seems like John Carruthers left out one ingredient in his all-things-Wisconsin corn dogs.  

Yeah, no punning here at Takeout. If I’ve toad you once, I’ve toad you a hundred times!

Winnipeg is a real place. It’s where my high school girl friend was from, which is why you never met her. 

Carroll strikes me as a Gary Johnson voter. 

“I mean, I’d never really considered it. What if I really am just a belly-itcher?”

On a recent episode of Unspooled they were discussing Pulp Fiction and how well it had aged and whether Tarantino’s attitudes had matured. Then later that week Spotify posted a playlist curated by Tarantino of his favorite songs from his movies. Like his soundtracks he included lines of dialogue. What’s the first line…

When we were kids my dad made root beer. The first batch was amazing so he made a second. Something was off in that second batch though. The first bang from the basement scared the crap out of us. By the time we got down there the rest of the bottles went like the Boston Pops doing the 1812 Overture. 

And then one time he says “If you rake forests, forest fires are finished.” then the next time it’s “Raking forests is why the Finnish never have forest fires.” then the next it’s “I was talking to the President of Finland - great leader, they love me in Finland - and he told me that they don’t have forest fires…

I can smell the sweat of my alcoholic aunt. 

Clearly what they need to ride this momentum train all the way to October is to continue to wear those sweet sky blue Mike Schmidt/Steve Carlton/Greg Luzinski/Bake McBride uniforms. Man, I love those!

That was very close. If he’d gone one shade darker by Necronomicon law he becomes the Cardinals mascot for all eternity.

I also enjoyed this reverse angle of Frazier coming around third:

I can’t brag about it? You might as well lock me up. If I have that story up my sleeve, no way I’m not violating parole.

Or that the most clever thing Gregg Easterbrook ever came up with was calling them the flaming thumbtacks. 

I read this as I too struggle to get rid of turds. Synchronicity. 

+tricurious

McGregor was moved to punch the old man when the old man told McGregor, “Ah laddie, here’s wishin’ a blight on all yer potatoes!”

Your articles are such a rare thing, a former player’s perspective that is actually perspective and not “Gotta grit it out, be tougher, back in my day, durr, protect the shield if you want to survive in the NATIONAL FOOBAW LEAGUE!!!” slobber, slobber flex your neck pap that is the norm.