Infielder, so clearly we’re talking insider trading.

I often have something of a similar shape emanating from my butt. It’s only permanent if you have a sense of smell, though.

I’m sure this explains how NCAA players are eligible for the draft but CIS (in Canada) players are not, but I blacked out and woke up on the kitchen floor, the dog licking my face. Even then, everything seemed fine, but then the dog called me Davey.

Yup. My boys are grown (or almost, as the youngest is 18 in 2 weeks), but I will never ever ever forget those days. Of course, Arnett was cheating, since he had the lights on and lots of warning. Also, he wasn’t carrying a drink or a baby and heroically not dropping them.

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It’s a minor obsession. A couple of decades ago I wrote a screed of a letter to the editor complaining about the anchors of one of the local news shows starting almost every story with “Well...” I had people look me up in the goddamned phone book and call to thank me. Which was kinda weird.

15 out of 17 paragraphs (in the transcript here; don’t anyone make me click on a link) start with “Well.” It’s just a lazy place setter to give him time to gather his thoughts, such as they are.

The older you get, the more often that happens. Just you wait.

Well placed comma there. I applaud.

Oooooh! Clever what you did there.

Another point: Every time I watch NBC cover hockey and realize how much we gained when Pierre McGuire moved there.

As I noted elsewhere, Canadians speak the same language (football-wise) as Americans, barring one fewer down, a few more yards, and extra player, and a few other things. We don’t need stuff “splained to us as much. Also, our basic cable brings in Fox and all the other American networks, so if we don’t watch CTV we…

Yes, because I have to get out a stepladder. Is it difficult to comment while typing with two hands holding guns and building a wall at the same time?

I suspect you’ll find people bitching and moaning that they’re having to put up with the locals instead of getting the real pros. Also, remember economies of scale: the US is 10X or so larger than Canada, it’s a US product. Think of it as a pool broadcast that we utilize, and are able to do so because we live on your…

Uh, we still have to put up with the Fox broadcasters even if we watch it on CTV. You think Bell Media is going to pay to supply their own play by play and colour (note the u) guys? This is one time I’m actually sympathetic, since we can see all the goddamn ads on this little thing called the internet.

“...and a team for which the overwhelming majority of matches won’t be televised in the U.S.”

They’ll give a Grammy to anything nowadays, h̶u̶h̶ eh?

Same with Korean zombie film Train to Busan. Zombies. On a fucking train. And these ain’t slow-ass Walking Dead zombies, either.

When I was 17 we did a band trip to Japan. Smart boy that I was, I drank nothing but Coke during a heat wave, and one day collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Fellow students went to stay in a strange camp with cabins on stilts and all sorts of other weird setups halfway up a mountain while I stayed down at the…

In the late ‘80s I hit ice on a highway curve at 90 km/h and then hit the ditch at a right angle, one and a half flips. Just before hitting the ditch I very calmly said “Please hang on, ladies.” Just didn’t make sense to shout, for some reason.