This take did not age well.

Bill Russell also won two NCAA championships, along with 55 straight wins, with friggin USF (granted they also had KC Jones) and an Olympic gold. The “Bill Russell was a product of those stacked Celtics teams” takes get the causal relationship ass-backwards. He was basically a much better version of Ben Wallace (which…

Oh my god.

It’s not that the snake would eat the dog food, it’s that the dog food would attract rodents, which in turn would attract snakes.

I was wondering how it could possibly only weigh 133 lbs...

Great stuff, but Belgian beer is far too diverse for a broad-brush "Belgians are Belgian-y".

I'd have to see the relevant MA statute, but how do you know he has it in there "with the purpose of using it as a weapon"? He's a former baseball player, he may hit the batting cages regularly. To be safe, you should alert the Suffolk County DA's Office. Hell, he might even have a tire iron in there!

"Former Red Sox infielder and current WEEI yakker Lou Merloni is perhaps best known in Boston for being from Framingham and for being Nomar's friend"

Which is?

Yep, same here, looked around to see what dickhead hit me in the calf with a baseball. Having felt that before, and not seeing any object in this video, I assume that's what happened here. Though I wouldn't have been able to ref a game after I tore my calf.

NFL regular season games played/games missed:

So you seem like a good person to ask - having recently read (and loved) Anathem and Snow Crash, I bought Cryptonomicon, but then I found Quicksilver on the street, and now both are sitting on my nightstand, waiting for me to finish my current book. Which should I read first? Which did you like better?

Right, and besides, frickineh's critique is addressed in, literally, the second sentence of the AAP abstract:

I suspect it's an image of Phoenix from the X-Men, who is kind of a recycled Jean Grey.

If it's a real bagel, you don't.

Game 5 was higher leverage, but I'm partial to another Pedro gem from that season. 17 strikeouts in Yankee Stadium, one hit (a Chili Davis homer), no walks, one HBP. Eight of the last nine outs were strikeouts, and seven of those were swinging. WPA of .625 (!), as opposed to .377 against Cleveland. Yankee batters…

I'm partial another one-hitter, also from '99. 17 strikeouts in Yankee Stadium, one hit (a Chili Davis homer), no walks, one HBP. Eight of the last nine outs were strikeouts, and seven of those were swinging.

Right. Alito replaced O'Connor. And Roberts, the guy who didn't replace O'Connor, is Catholic and therefore not a WASP.

Alito replaced O'Connor. He's neither Anglo-Saxon nor Protestant. But you got the W part right.

Not many people on earth could keep that up for 60 minutes. Tabata sprints, developed for Japanese Olympic speed skaters, consist of 20 seconds of sprinting, with 10 seconds of rest in between, for 8 sets. That's four minutes total, and triathletes will be sucking wind afterwards. It's an awesome workout, but it…