You have to understand how much I loathe baseball.  I haven't watched a down of it in years.

Last year's playoff modification was a good one: if you got the ball first and could only manage a field goal, then the other team got a possession, too.
BTW, the stats for first-possession wins/losses were 53% wins and 47% losses.  In poker, that's called a coin-flip. Not a tremendous disadvantage to lose the toss…

Then you, sir, are my mortal enemy. I shall brook no more of this bombast and heresy!  You should make your peace with whatever false deity you idly worship in your benighted hovel, for you shall meet your maker at my very hand. BY GOD SIR, I shall have pistols at ten paces for you and your effrontery!  You may have…

Same here, in a big way.  His smarmy voice was the first thing heard on the debut of KTCK (although the call letters were still KAAM at that time).

That's one of my favorite things about soccer: you don't have to be a superhuman physical specimen to be among the world's elites. The world's current best player, Lionel Messi of Argentina and FC Barcelona, is listed at 5' 7" (which means he's 5' 5") !  He's the Tom Cruise/Sylvester Stallone of soocer.

@avclub-74f7a71ee2b66500bff752ae84ce358d:disqus, while I disagree even though I have reservations about PK's to decide a game, it reminds me of how they used to decide ties in the old days: come back the next day and play another 90 minutes. And back then they only got 2 subs, instead of 3. I do agree with FIFA that…

That's the one thing I forgot in my lengthy post.  Scurry should have had to face a re-kick.  She was 4 yards off the line when she saved that shot! It's one sometimes used in ref certification/continuing education about that very subject.  The camera shot is very instructional.

That seems like something that started with the Barney and Friends generation, i.e. people under age 30 or so.

My Atari Video Computer System (pre-2600 designation) came packed with Combat. From Wikipedia: "Combat is an early video game by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600. It was released as one of the nine launch titles for the system in September 1977, and was included in the box with the system from its introduction until…

I don't think she won the internet contest, either.  Just an example of someone who IS hotter than Mia.  And no, she wasn't a world champion tennis player either. But they have some other way than internet voting to figure that kind of competition out. Rochambeau maybe? I dunno.

When you factor in internet listening, yes.  WFAN (and I'm sure others) does have more terrestrial listeners. But in internet listenership, there is a wide margin between KTCK and No. 3.
"The Ticket" is personality-driven radio. The on-air hosts form a bond with the listener (or P1 in Arbitron-speak, someone who…

This is the episode of the series that I was most excited about, too. I'm a soccer freak, so all of my comments here are definitely biased and skewed. But also entirely correct.

He's nutz!

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Yesterday was Dime's birthday, y'all. Respect.

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@i and 1 Had tickets for the Go-Go's with Flock of Seagulls as opener, but Gina Shock went into rehab, and the tour was postponed. When they did play, Wall of Voodoo was the opener.  I had never heard of them (no MTV and I hated top 40 radio).  They blew me the fuck away.  The 15,000 girls there in their polka-dot…

I still pull that one out from time to time. Then came Club Ninja. ugh

@stepped_pyramids Of course he was never going to be as successful as his father.  But honestly, how can you expect a man to live up to one of the authors of the goddamn Declaration of Independence?!

I think you mean http://instantrimshot.com/