Griffey is the only lock, I think. Piazza will probably make it as well. Bagwell has a chance as well (55.7% last year), but he might need to wait a few more years and is far from guaranteed to get in. I don’t think there are any other potential candidates on the ballot this year. I could Hoffman getting some support…

There are three people I have zero respect for in this world. It’s people who hit women, people who molest children, and rapists.

Pictures of soldiers have always been marketing tropes. Here’s an ad from WWII:

Angry man enters Starbucks with gun, demands that employees wish him a Merry Christmas in early November.

Martians. The other 15% are Martians.

According to this ESPN article, the team is “not united over the decision to stop practicing.” I’m also confused as to exactly what is going on, but I interpret this quote to mean that practices have been officially canceled: “On Sunday, coach Gary Pinkel and athletic director Mack Rhoades issued a statement that…

I think there’s such thing as a gotcha question/moment. This, however, is not one of them. This is an entirely fair question.

Does “football-related activities” include next Saturday’s game againt BYU or just practices and team meetings? It’s vague enough that it could be either one. Skipping the game is more likely to get the desired result but it is also more likely to backfire.

A while ago (I’m not sure exactly when, but probably in the 1980s), my grandparents were in a famous bakery/cafe place in Little Italy in NYC when John Gotti walked in. A lot of the customers got up and left, I guess out of fear there was going to be Godfather-style shooting or something. My grandparents were among…

I was standing watching somewhere in between mile 22 and 23. Harbert Okuti stopped running right near me and just stood there for a few minutes talking to a few other spectators and then walked away. He finished 19th in last year’s marathon and was somewhere in between 10 and 15 when he stopped this year. I’ve tried…

They can’t do maintenance on site? Wouldn’t that be safer/easier?

Why do they get moved around? I thought all the nukes were in silos somewhere and I don’t think the US has made new nuclear weapons in a while. It’s not like they need to move them back and forth between the West Coast so that they can reach Beijing and the East Coast so that they can reach Moscow depending on which…

I don’t think they’re being reported more. Whenever it happens, it gets reported. Some years it’s only 2 kids, this year it’s 10, so you see it more. He did say that it’s on the high side.

Any idea what changed in the mid 1970s to cause the death count to go down? I assume rule changes or better equipment, right? I know there were a lot of reforms when Theodore Roosevelt was President, but that was before this chart even starts.

I once met a guy who told me that, in 2000, he called up George W. Bush’s campaign to give him advice on how to deal with the media. He says the person he spoke to said it was good advice and that they would relay it to Bush. I have no idea if that is true or not, but he showed me an invitation he got to go to a…

He was someone new. This is his first head coaching job. Before that, he was secondary coach and defensive coordinator for the Ravens and did pretty well. Also, I think it’s inaccurate to say that he would have been fired earlier if he wasn’t sick. The Colts made the AFC Championship Game last year and won 11 games in…

It’s too bad that the Colts couldn’t find a way to keep Arians without looking like they were firing Pagano for having cancer. He’s clearly the better coach.

Without having read their brief, my guess is that they are arguing 1) it’s not offensive and 2) even if it it offensive, so what?

It really annoyed me how much Joe Buck was saying it was a bad decision to leave Harvey in because Harvey gave up a walk and a hit. Just an inning earlier, Buck was praising Harvey for wanting to stay in and you know that he would have said what a great decision it was to leave Harvey in if he had struck out the side.…

Of course he was. Everyone knows that horse could beat a bird in any athletic event.