In casual conversation, I use ‘Mate’ almost exclusively. I lived in Australia for a while, so I picked up using ‘Mate’ and ‘Cheers’ without even thinking about it.

And they can’t even do that very well...

If I was running the M’s, I would tell Scott Servais thanks for the effort, and get Maddon on the next plane to Seattle.

Burn it all to the ground...Trump and his slack-jawed family, #MoscowMitch and all the enabling Republicans in Congress, and Fox News (especially Lumpy Hannity) and the sleaze merchants on conserva-talk radio.  Fuck each and every one of them with a chain saw.

Yes, he showed amazing loyalty...but the $221,334,994 that he made in 14 years probably helped with that some.

The only reason I’m crying is because Seattle ownership was never able to put a team around Felix worthy of him.   He never pitched in a playoff game, which is a damn shame.

He reminds me of Frank Burns.

One of my biggest pet peeves in the entire world is when people refer to actors by the name of their most popular TV/movie character (e.g. calling Glenn Howerton Dennis Reynolds in conversation or online).

A (terrible) lid for every (racist) pot....

I saw them in the fall of ‘81 in Albuquerque, and the only memory that stands out is my mate catching Benjamin Orr’s guitar pick when he threw it into the crowd.

‘none of them are going to rallies and singing “Springtime for Hitler”’ —- yet...

I felt bad that they had to play in a half-filled stadium. The USTA really should have made Serena’s semi the second one played.

Cyclocross racing is a blast. And taking a digger doesn’t hurt as bad as falling on pavement.

No....Bill Buchan...

I had been into sailing for about a year when I got an invite to do a race on a Nelson Marek 46, owned by a local sailing Legend/Rock Star (gold medal winner...america’s cup winner...rolex yachtsman of the year) and somehow got assigned to do one of the running backstays.

Erick Son Of Erick can call Supreme Court Justice David Souter a ‘goat fucking child molester’ and still be invited onto news shows and taken even a little bit seriously is pretty remarkable.

I’m sure this has been mentioned, but the way backstrokers know they are reaching the wall is by spotting the pennants/flags that are strung across the pool, 5 meters, from the wall.

‘Chunky Reese Witherspoon’ is a time-honored Internet tradition that should never die.

The RiNo (River North) area is a fun spot...

Re: Footloose.  Not only is it a terrible movie, it also gets pretty date-rapey between Lori Singer and her pre-Kevin Bacon boyfriend.  Yikes...