Usually I pay little attention to this mindless thrill-seeking masquerading as a sport. But this is something. This is really something. The meticulous planning, training, athleticism and courage it took to accomplish this feat is mind-blowing. This guy is the real thing.

Run it off.

It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that many were decrying the blandness of those running for public office due to the overly intense scrutiny that the press was applying to prospective candidates. There was a fear that otherwise qualified and competent people would eschew public service because they spent a…

Thanks, nice catch.

With hands like that, the Iggles could use him.

Now there’s an attitude about sports teams that you don’t like that I can get behind.

The weather’s been nice.

My Pittsburgh friends will be happy. My Canadian friends, not so much. I generally only watch the finals anyway.

If it wasn’t for these thinly veiled racist hot-takes, would anyone really be paying any attention to Schilling? Does he possess some insight into baseball or sports in general that you couldn’t get from a garden-variety sports talk shut-in living with his alcoholic aunt who calls in daily to the afternoon drive time…

Hugo Black did.

Reconstruction also wasn’t on front burner for Northern business. Everyone just wanted to get on with things and that didn’t include justice for the former slaves.

Who has time to put something on banana bread? That shit comes out if the oven and it’s gone before you can turn the oven off. If someone happens to give me some they made earlier, it’s gone before anyone can get anything to put on it.

Maybe there’s a trade in the works. I hear the Braves’ AAA affiliate is looking for a thumper.

It must have been something to be in New York in the days when there were 3 teams playing baseball within a few miles of each other. I think it’s great that there are those that keep the memory of those years alive.

“When is the appropriate time to go Larry David and ask for a thank you”

So Tim Tebow is playing pro ball in the minors and Ryan Howard isn’t. Baseball is a funny thing.

It’s not easy facing your own decline and mortality, especially on a public stage.

Gerry Callahan is the other guy watching it.

You got to protect the plate.

In all fairness though, that was probably Ortiz running at a full speed.