The favorite? Which books?

re: defensive metrics, see end of ALCS Game 2. He’s the reason the Yankees didn’t go to the World Series last year.

Thank you for this. I was worried that I might have to read an MLB playoff guide without any non sequitor political commentary

They were a lock for the wild card. They were fighting to win the AL West, but that was also locked up a full week ago

The change made the regular season more relevant, which is important because it’s 162 fucking games long

Historically, civilians bore few of the effects of war. In centuries gone by, wars were fought by hand-to-hand combat on battlefields located safely away from populated areas.

Rainouts should be forfeits by the home team

Well it happened to my team in 2015, and I thought the WC game was pretty fun

Quarterback Bortles!

That movie made better use of broadcaster cameos than any before or since

It would still be cool to face our old division rival

If you’re going to insist on a specific pessimistic comparable, I’d go with the early ‘70s right before the collapse of the Nifty Fifty, when debt was piling up and stagflation loomed but had not yet been realized, when the country was extremely divided politically and racially, and a president faced a highly credible…

Do you think we are headed toward dictatorship? I am willing to bet a lot of money that the election in one month will result in significant curtailment of whatever powers Trump has managed to wield.

Unclear the legal justification for enforcing an American NDA on a German newspaper not party to the NDA

Two years in, we’re comparable to year 1? FYI, the Enabling Act was passed within a month of Hitler’s appointment as chancellor

Over 70 years since WWII, but if you think this is comparable to what happened from 1933-1945, you have no sense of proportion or perspective

I imagine the insurance premiums on the types of cars Beckham drives would also have a kind of multiplier effect

Conservative here. I think they should have pulled his nomination two weeks ago, and I said so at the time. I’ll be very surprised at this point if his nomination is confirmed.

It’s not the hurtful things you said that matter—no one was there to read them. It’s the extreme hypocrisy of pretending to have moral authority and in advocating the public shaming of young pitchers for what they said as teenagers when you were four years older, graduated from college, and saying the same thing.