Quality kinja.

So if I’m a Red Sox fan afraid of Cleveland, do I want the Yankees to win the wildcard as the best shot of knocking out the Tribe? Does that also put us on a path to a Sox-Yankees ALCS?

I remember when the Dodgers were unstoppable.

Better headline on the Root. http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/thug-charged-with-shooting-and-critically-injuring-home-1805004621

Just curious, if he’s such a good hitter, would they put in the AL so he can play DH on his non-pitching days, or would he go NL so he can be in the lineup on his pitching days? Could he keep up a batting slashline like that in the MLB?

I can’t wait until they nominate the mediocre Vontaze D. Burfict instead of the really good, unrelated Vontaze P. Burfict, who will retire in 2043.

Aaron Judge for MVP lol

But he stood up all the way through the national anthem. Good boy.

Montero: I just got a tip in there.

I believe this is called cricket.

Baseball is so god-damned fragile. The field is fragile. The players are fragile. But the game still must be played. We must do this.

I think Trump has already burned through all the tiny handful* women and people of color (Haley, McConnell’s wife**, Carson, Sheriff Clarke, Omarosa) who are willing to be associated with him. Seriously, this is partly an issue of who Trump looks at and respects (repugnant white guys), but also partly an issue of who…

And articles written primarily for men should probably be on a man site, the same way that articles written primarily about dog owners should probably be on a dog-owners’ site. Ditto for mothers of special needs kids, bass fishermen/women, Star Trek enthusiasts, swingers, Bollywood dance instructors, etc. etc.

Team officials communicating with the booth to cue patriotic songs just before a hot-headed star player is ejected is the new Apple-device-assisted sign-stealing.

You mean the undefeated division-leading Jaguars? They just earned a one-week reprieve from scorn.

Inside this post is some obvious but true stuff about drug addiction being a disease, which sounds as blameless and random as Parkinsons or juvenile diabetes, but there is some personal decision involved and the consequences are pretty severe for the user and, in this case, the people who got shot in the head by…

End the separation of church and state? Well, the problem is that God is basically an invention of man (in the gender-neutral sense, but probably mostly men) and would be wielded by the powers of a government in really really bad ways. Once “God” is speaking in your ear, then you can justify anything.

I am an atheist who thinks that God is this One Weird Trick that seems really effective at turning around violent criminals, so I cut it some slack.

I really wish they hadn’t made the change and wish you hadn’t posted this. I don’t want consumers figuring it out and bidding up the price of the best maple syrup. Good thing most people are satisfied with nasty corn syrup in a tall plastic bottle.

Easy September schedule. Let’s see how they do against a real team in the playoffs.