I don’t really like him or Suzyn, they’re both too far up their own butts with Yankee-worship. I’ll often listen to opposing broadcasts.

Nope! This one: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Chosen.html?id=1Nf3FxMIEB8C

PEPPERMINT, ROLLLLLLLLLLL!

There is a GREAT book called “The Chosen” about how the Ivies changed the landscape of college admissions (i.e. less emphasis on testing and more on vaguely-defined “character”) after a lot of Jews started getting admitted in the 1910s and 20s; this reminds me very much of that.

In heaven, the proximity to the authority figure is *directly* proportional to the opportunity for mischief.

In ROCHESTER, NY (Pontillo’s what what!) we always had square cut pizza. The extra floppiness made the sausage taste more zesty! I dare you to make a joke out of that sentence.

I just looked up that election, and he won with 74% OF THE VOTE. Yeah, Gary, sounds like everyone will blame him if the Flames leave...

Cops are literally the devil’s advocates tho

I saw the first half of this, starred it, then saw the second half, and burst out laughing.

Well that’s not gonna protect Max Scherzer.

Dear Jess, I don’t know what Drew’s problem with Burneko is, but his old columns on grilling chicken breasts and chicken thighs are still guiding me. Short version: brine not marinade, and make your own BBQ sauce!

Here in Baltimore they get fished out of the harbor!

The Toronto Jam would have been weirdly prescient and had a great mascot:

Can we get a better angle + gif of that catcher’s beautiful dance

Clint Barmes sends his sympathies, and a few sides of beef.

Pee IS stored in the balls!

I’m taking a break from twitter and this was real worlds-collide for me, I was like “uh, why is my city councilperson on deadspin”

Holy shit I’m in love with you. We also would have accepted Aurora Borealis.

Anyway, it’s a balk, all this bullshit is a balk, and if pitchers are getting through to MLB doing all this balk shit, it’s time to tell college and HS coaches to stop it with the balk shit. It’s not hard not to balk. Shit.

Got it. Braden’s voice is fucking hilarious.