That shit won't fly in the age of HDTV.

Don't forget π!

@avclub-4d3bac64f0fbcc90a6b5c82f09ea4418:disqus , as a matter of fact, I deleted from my post a little digression about Bonds's assholitude, but I'll try to restate it here.  Bonds may very well be a complete and utter asshole, but from my perspective, as someone who never saw much of him, especially once he went to…

1948: Cleveland Indians, 4 games; Boston Braves, 2 games

I am really uncomfortable being addressed as your "prey."  Now I'm wondering if you have a high-powered rifle trained on me at this moment, waiting until it suits your whimsy to kill me in a manner that leaves a trophy head to mount on your wall…

Actually, Aaron's story is a sobering bookend to Jackie Robinson's (and points to some harsh realities that this movie seems not to explore).  When you consider the death threats and insults Aaron had to endure as he approached Babe Ruth's career home run mark, in 1974, it's a reminder that the integration of baseball…

Delroy Lindo!  Now there's a guy I wish we saw more of.

I think there's plenty of room for Spike Lee — or anyone else, really — to make lots of good movies centering on the Negro Leagues and the integration of Major League Baseball.  @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus  and I kicked around the idea of an HBO show about it in the comments to the Bull Durham…

If pissing off Spike Lee were the only thing the studio executive wanted to do, they should have given this to Clint Eastwood to direct.

I'm very surprised that the Negro Leagues haven't been strip-mined for some high-profile movies.  I mentioned this in the Bull Durham article the other day, and I was completely unaware that this movie was even coming out.  Just goes to show what you don't know when you don't go to see movies at the theater, skip past…

The St. Louis Cardinals threatened to boycott games against the Dodgers in 1947, because of Robinson.  You're right, @avclub-8ad297da4fc2cc28dfa3c0cb7df8ae63:disqus , that Robinson's breaking of the color barrier was hugely significant because of how central baseball was to American culture in the mid-20th century. …

"Boombox" is preferred over "ghetto blaster" these days, but that wasn't the case in LL's heyday.

God help me for laughing out loud at that.

Paisley looks like he's been digitally altered to be so much smaller than LL — like Elijah Wood in Lord of the Rings.

George Strait is a good-looking man who could sell you a house in another life.  Kenny Chensey is not, and is a man who would steal your car in another life.

Kenny Powers voice for me…

Ladies Love…I forget the rest.

Well, I guess it depends on what they're posting as proof that an idiocracy is developing in our culture, but you might take their warnings seriously.

@avclub-f3165be83d2dd835403b494eb7185ce2:disqus , those are two of the funniest observations I've heard in a long time about the sometimes humorous futility of getting somewhere on public transit.  I am an urban planner, and I have a passion for public transit; but even I have to admit that it takes a lot of patience…

Obama, you'll remember, did not start any wars.  He has managed to withdraw American troops from Iraq (a big issue that he ran on in 2008), and has set a date for removing them from Afghanistan.  As for Libya, the US stepped in only when it became apparent that the Europeans couldn't get their shit together long…