My team’s fans have given up on NFL football for very good reasons, so we have that going for us.

You didn’t have the pleasure of going to college with a ton of people “from Chicago” (read: from Highland Park or La Grange or one of the eleventy billion suburbs) between 2007 and 2011, when they went from mocking you for liking hockey to lording the Hawks over you in an incredibly short span.

Drew: I know you hate hockey because of some unspeakable horror back in your MN days, but you need to discover just how horribly shitty Chicago Blackhawks fans are. Excusing Patrick Kane’s (alleged) rape is just the tip of the iceberg.

That’s nothing: anybody remember Ryan Babel and the helicopter?

He’s a Yank, that’s why.

THB FTW

Guess who's up tomorrow.

Capital is better than NG, which while good is kinda over-rated because of its “we sell only in Wisconsin” stance.

I’ve always seen him more as the guy that hangs out in suburban Tempe that occasionally goes to get some Huggies and whatever cash you’ve got.

Yeah, at the LLWS most times the umps are wired.

There is actually a minor party in Australia called the Motoring Enthusiast Party that, because of the vagaries of the electoral system down under, got a senator elected in 2013. His name was Ricky Muir and he went from “odd newbie to politics” to “genuinely good politician who gave a fresh perspective on events”:…

When people on another place I post said that Portland would be a viable destination for an NHL team, I had to remind them that in all likelihood we’d get some variation of the Timbers Army supporting them. They all agreed that this aggression could not stand.

The fake punt return Austin and Stedman Bailey pulled out against Seattle is my last memory of pro football here in STL.

Actually the celebs you mentioned are more Coachella people. Burning Man gets SV gobshites.

(It was the Sox—the Cubs were more recently in the news for poor taste in music when they played “Smack My Bitch Up” after Aroldis Chapman had a good inning.)

I remember that the next start Chuck Finley had was at the White Sox, and the Sox Park DJ played “Here I Go Again” when he took the mound.

God, I miss the Peter Stormare V-Dub ads.

I think they looked at the blogs I posted on most and just had the mains/sub-blogs follow us en masse, thus getting many people out of Grey Gardens. Also, I was long in the black on Gawker (Rest In Power), so that may have had something to do with it.

Okay, slightly off-topic: have Kinja comments been locking up anyone else’s computers? Because ever since Univision bought out GM, half the time when I want to load more/post something I get the Spinny Pinwheel of Death and have to re-load, and in Activity Monitor it says that this page/tab is taking up like 750 MB of…