Magary's Tuesday "Funbag" (Mailbag) posts on Deadspin are literally the most anticipated written piece in my rotation each week. He's profanely hilarious and may be one of the funnier comedy writers working today. That said, I've been wary of buying this book, and the reviews have been good-not-great (including this…

I didn't catch that connection as I watched the episode. Whether intentionally done by the show or not, that's a very interesting parallel.