I once ate an entire wedge of brie knowing damn well it was brie

I once went to a Mets-Giants game at Shea at the height of Barry Bonds-dom. He hit two monster homers and one ball off the wall that ended up being a single because it was hit so hard (and probably the outfielder was playing so deep) that he didn’t have time to get to 2nd. The Mets still won. It was everything I…

As the father of an 8 month old, I face this dilemma very often. I have no problem leaving my daughter in the car for the 30 seconds it takes to get the mail (communal mailbox) but I have yet to leave her in the car while I run into a gas station for a drink or something along those lines. I have not done this not…

Gary Younge on “black-on-black crime”:

Or if Storen could just have turned around and seen Molina coming too far off the bag and picked him off.

Also wouldn’t have mattered as much, but would have like to see the ump call the strike zone right this past year against the Giants in the NLDS so Zimm could have gotten the complete game he deserved

I think it's also important to make a distinction between saying something "offensive," and directing harassment and violent threats at actual, specific targets. I don't think people deserve to have their lives ruined because they posted a picture of themselves dressed as a marathon bombing victim for Halloween or…

Perhaps. The sad part is that the only reason these two are getting any grief at all is because they picked on a semi-powerful person that decided to go after them.

I see a lot of commentary on this - all of it good - that "Dads who have daughters should read this!" or whatever.

New Mexican food is so fucking good. It's criminal it hasn't gained more of a foothold outside the southwest. You haven't lived until you've tried sopapilla dipped in posole.

I just got back from Disney World and Harry Potter at Universal; my daughter missed a week of school. I'm rationalizing it because she's only in third grade, way ahead in class, and it will only get harder when she gets older (also she read the Harry Potter books—all of them—five times in the last few months, so we…

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