While working the roller coaster seems like a fun summer job, back in the day when I worked at Paramount’s Kings Dominion, the rides people were ALSO tasked with cleaning the bathrooms, and if you’ve ever been in an amusement park bathroom near a roller coaster, it can be unpleasant.

For the love of god, can someone please put Tommy Lasorda Baseball on one of these things?! There are never any sports games on these emulators and I can’t tell you how many hours I wasted on that game. 

For the love of god, can someone please put Tommy Lasorda Baseball on one of these things?! There are never any…

I grew up in Richmond, so this kind of casual racism is par for the course, what with Monument Avenue and the Confederate History Museum and the places us black folk knew we should not linger/visit lest you have an unfortunate run in with someone - and this is in the 1990s! After years away, I came back to Northern…

Max:

Oh man, was this bad, and boring to boot. It’s clear that Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with Carano, and I fear her career will play out making disposable features like this and In The Blood (which at least had a little bit more panache, courtesy of junk action director John Stockwell).

Spending my teen years in Richmond, the lawyer earworm I remember is: “If you’re hurt ... call Joynes & Beiber”

While Eastern Motors may be bad in a cheesy way, the Paisano’s commercials are just awful: WHATCHU WANT?!

What’s the last movie that completely surprised you, in a positive way? Like, you thought it was going to suck, or knew nothing about it, and it left a good impression.

I’m in!

Ah, yes, I’ve been waiting for this! The true sign of making it to the big-time - getting skewered by Magary. Did you outsource some of this to Leitch? He’s still butt-hurt that NU has overtaken I-L-L-N-I-T in both football and basketball.

I have no idea if this is in GIF form, but this should have been the Nats’. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard while watching a game.

Did you see that profile of MTV News in the California Sunday Magazine? They all sit around one long table writing! Who would you play footsie with if that was the case at Deadspin HQ?

Damn, just seeing that fumble from Touissant brings the hurt back. That rag-tag bunch of Steelers almost managed to beat noodle-armed Petyon in Denver! Of course, they would have gotten murdered by the Pats the next week, so maybe it was for the better to prevent another Brady-Belichick title.

This Sox actually wore the shorts three times in 1976. This picture was taken from the last time they wore them, but they had won the previous two times wearing shorts.

This is my favorite Starbucks mangling of my name...

Way, way back when I was starting out as a reporter, I did an post-college internship at the San Bernardino Sun, covering the Single-A Stampede. After their season ended, as a little bonus, they let me cover a couple of Anaheim Angels games, my first-ever MLB contests. After one game, I went to interview Phillips, who…

I lived in Odessa and worked for the Odessa American in the late 90s, covering the redhead stepchild Bronchos, and it was as big of a culture shock for me as going to Harvard was for Chavez - who was definitely still a very big fish in town when I lived there.

I remain stunned that Hannibal got three seasons on NBC, even as the network eventually shuffled it off to the hinterlands at the end. It was an incredibly powerful, graphic and allegorical show - will we ever see anything like that on network TV again? If there was a season 4, where did you see things going?

Will, I am going to my first-ever Cardinals game in St. Louis in September. I am black. How do I ensure “baseball’s best fans” don’t mistake me for a rampaging, angry man ready to do them harm?