As someone who only moved to America a few years ago and has been ever-increasingly falling in love with the game of baseball, I found your Brandon Crawford anecdote - and the relation of statistical knowledge to the enjoyment of the moment - a perfect avatar for one of the reasons the game has grown on me.

WTF is the captain doing? Just standing there watching while all this is going on. Great leadership, buddy.

It’d take something extraordinary for Ossoff not to win the runoff.

Did it again yesterday. There’s a reason they call him Daniel “Hits” Murphy on the MASN coverage. Hate his politics, love his mashing.

My dog Poppy surveying her Brooklyn domain from the balcony.

Speaking is an Orlando fan, if we got our hands on Rudy Gay, it’d be peak Magic. I couldn’t think of a more symbolic Orlando player other than perhaps Arron Afflalo.

Best Kinja.

FWIW, I think the Texans are closer to contention than Denver given their divisions and squads. If Houston can get a good QB, there’s no reason they couldn’t challenge. It’s why they splurged so much on Osweiler in the first place.

The Myles Barlow original version (on Hulu for those here in the States, and well worth a look) ends with Barlow breaking down and ending up in jail.

Very good.

Orlando fan here. Fucking hard to care anymore.

Is he the guy who used to have a ponytail and got done for throwing games early in his career?

Threatening to take Deadspin out of your bookmarks must send the editorial staff of the site into a hysterical frenzy.

DeVos really screwed up Michigan education.

Election remark

I ran in the same circles as my now wife when we were younger, but we never actually met. I tell her constantly that if she met me at 22 rather than 28, there’s no way on Earth we’d be married.

1, 4, 3 in that order. Why would you only go to your boss as a last resort?

Was thinking the same. if nothing else, it could be a heartwarming homecoming and a stop-gap that sees them through until something better comes along.

You can get the cops called on you for getting the sight-line of some fans?

I have an Australian passport *kisses it*