Oh yeah, it's been a while since I've been to Cooperstown.

Oh, I remember, I'm a Sox fan. It was equal parts fascinating and maddening.

Okay, fine. You save an insignificant amount of time.

It doesn’t happen a ton but it does happen. The larger point is that you don’t actually save any time getting rid of intentional walks.

God, I love minor league games. I miss having a local team so much. Best summer afternoon I can think of.

Oh, he's definitely getting in. Maybe with an asterisk, but he'll be there. He may have been able to make it on the strength of his pre-steroids career.

Because it's so fun when someone fucks up the intentional walk.

Sadly for us and for posterity, Trump is the Trump of "Sports Entertainment".

It's just so, so pointless. It can't save more than 12 seconds a game. Meanwhile, if you cracked down on the time batters spent adjusting their gloves, helmet, body armor, footing, and testicles you'd cut off a good hour in the average game.

I like a version of Pete Rose who buys a ticket to the HoF to sneak in and surreptitiously put up a bust of himself.

I'm partial to the Bill Buckner episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm myself.

Donny Baseball, stickin' it to the man!

There's a fun over/under bet to be made on which year of eligibility Roger Clemens makes the Hall of Fame.

I wanted to see where so many of those threads went. At least the railbirds got a happy ending.

Are you saying the raw animal magnetism of Dennis Farina and Kevin Dunne is lost on you?

Too soon! To the glue factory with you!

John Ortiz! The excellent heavy from Miami Vice and the excellent horse trainer from Luck! Michael Mann and I enthusiastically endorse the casting of John Ortiz in this thing I'll never watch.

That's great news, looking forward to it!

I was looking for an easy one-pot meal for Sunday dinner with the family and I settled on jambalaya. I’d never made it before, but I’ve made gumbo plenty (which is the same basic ingredients served over rice rather than cooking the rice in the dressing, if anyone’s curious). It had a great heal level with a generous…

Oh, I bet it's not bad. I just find Frangelico a bit strong.