Scott Fletcher. He was the first ballplayer I ever actually met—my dad worked with his brother for a hot minute—and I became convinced that he was perennially on the cusp of breaking out. In reality, his OPS+ only topped 100 once in his career, but he WAS a decent fielder. 

I’d always assumed Hoss sued them for being desperately unfunny.

Consider this your confirmation.

You’re right. Totally worth it. You’re a hero.

...clearly.

I’m glad you put way too much thought into this and clearly don’t have any lingering parent issues.

I feel like it might be time for Hammond to stop wrecking driving cars and ruining things.

only because you don’t know how to use that term.

Absolutely nothing about this concept is a bad idea. I love it, and now need a “Carl’s Jr” jersey in my life.

Let’s just see if we can get this out of the way now, and save you a couple hundred words per column, Drew: is there an owner in the NFL that DOESN’T suck?

Ironically, the only way one could turned me off the book MORE, would be with the words “the audio book is read by Wil Wheaton.”

He’s like a bizarro Dempsey. Everything he does just looks so smooth and calculated.

I get that a lot of people don’t like the rule, but how would that prove it’s shit, exactly? It’s not like Manfred cares about pitch counts, and there have certainly been long games in baseball without a bunch of intentional walks.

Never mind! I misread stuff. Carry on.

Luke does not agree with you.

1994

This was actually super interesting. Well done.

The advent of the internet and readily available video technology has made me sad to think about all the decades and decades of shitty sports that has been played around the world, that nobody outside of the stadium got to revel in.

“So far I haven’t seen a good review.”
Then you’re obviously not looking.