So what's your opinion of the packages of peanuts they serve on airplanes? I personally find them too difficult to open and insufficient to fill my stomach over the course of a whole flight.

No one's saying why she's out (Patterson's not talking), but we can pretty much assume it's got a lot to do with Boynton.

Gah, these just get more and more distasteful. If I wanted to read terrible stories told by terrible people, I'd read Tuesdays With Morrie.

using a potted plant to clamber over the hurdle.

@PolishMafia: Edit button EXPLOSION! Move along, folks. Nothing to see in the replies.

@ClintonPortishead: I'm sure you will, but damn, looks like I missed more than I thought for the last couple weeks. I just figured it was going to be a bunch more bad Favre jokes and waited around for the newly rejuvenated late shift.

There has also been speculation that all of the publicity surrounding Beasley and marijuana was actually intended to cover up his use of harder drugs

@ClintonPortishead: It's absolutely silly that I just had to promote this.

@Bring Back BJ: Fair enough. I'm a Mets fan, so I'd be the same way if the Braves were still in this. I know I should feel that way about the Phillies, but it's hard to root against Halladay and Oswalt who I don't yet think of as real Phils. Plus, the straight up baseball fan in me feels like the Phillies as a whole…

@Bring Back BJ: I have to think Girardi's got some kind of backup plan for Burnett. I'm thinking it turns into a Piniella-Devil Rays thing where instead of planning for the starter to go more than a few innings, he just plans the whole game like a long-relief session with Nova, Joba and Wood and whoever else prepared…

I'm so glad I don't have a rooting interest in this post-season, so I can just enjoy these matchups. That Giants-Braves series reminded me how intense these games get when every baserunner is so important. Just awesome.

This will be one of those unfortunate "starred commenters only" deals, but how can anyone possibly think the Deadspin staff would be capable of falsifying a video of even this modest quality? We're talking about the guys who tried to reenact football highlights with helmeted vermin here. And incidentally, that's still…

On the plus side, this may force him to give that aching elbow the rest it requires.

Meanwhile, the San Antonio Spurs continue their total dominance over CMYK, and no one even notices.

@Steve Grogan Bud Bowl MVP: I'm kinda with you. I don't have much sympathy for Favre, but the more "Favre looks like a douche with a small weiner hahaha" posts that show up here, the less crazy the e-mailers accusing Deadspin of actively trying to bring a guy down out of sheer ill will are starting to look. I had no…

@Roethlisberger's Wingman: Tim Duncan is totally gonna get busted for cheating on his regular D&D group with some younger, flashier role players.

@Nacireman: Just had to recognize someone else making (relatively, for US readers) obscure Brit-rock references. So many of mine just drift away unnoticed.

@Steve Grogan Bud Bowl MVP: I like to think he went with "FRANKS AND BEANS!"

@Bellwether Johnson: That picture needs a thought bubble over Arroyo with nothing in it but a cartoon dog chasing its own tail.

@EggoROYffle: I totally get that, but strangely Swisher doesn't bother me. I feel like he should, but I don't know. I kinda feel like he'd be fun to have a beer with, which is rare among baseball players. Arroyo seems like that guy who would launch into a 30 minute spiel about how Burning Man will TOTALLY change my…