I’ll see this and raise you an Alcides Escobar. Who is also batting below the Mendoza line and has the added benefit of being absolutely no threat to take a walk or slug for a useful number.

I’m usually not good at these but for some reason this stuck in my head. It’s from this episode of DS9. Pic is from Act 3.

I agree completely that Kaepernick deserves a spot in this museum. I do think it’s kind of unfortunate that Edwards compares him to Ali so much.

How does any politician anywhere not get a memo on the day they decide to run for office that ‘Hey....you should probably fucking restrain yourself from comparing any human to a monkey, chimp, gorilla or anything that even in the remotest sense could be compared to a human being. Nothing good will come of this.’

Wasn’t Mattingly part of (or the start of) the Dodgers campaign against Puig? I mean Yasiel has his problems, but it never seemed like the Dodgers were trying to make the fun baseball player a better baseball player. From oberserving it afar at least.

The jurors sent the judge a note asking if they could make a statement when they delivered the verdict, but the judge said no and advised them that they were free to discuss the case after the trial.

He’s routinely made the mistake of making enemies of people who are smarter, more diligent, and harder-working than he is. I see this going badly for him.

Understanding casus belli and the ways to invoke it seems like the single biggest thing to get over for a new CK2 player.

It’s an awesome place, I had the good fortune to meet Buck O’neil a couple of times while he was still around and I swear you cannot even imagine a nicer man. He would sit down and shoot the shit with absolutely anyone about baseball for as long as you were willing to listen.

No way this is Bannon’s brand.

Alex Mack and Joe Haden are good! Just Mack with someone else now. 2012 is when things really went off the rails with Richardson and Weeden. Then 2014 with Gilbert and JFF, ouch.

Chernobyl-type and US reactors are of different designs. It’s not technically possible for a US reactor to meltdown like Chernobyl did.

Still working my way through the article but early on it got me thinking of great Mexican matches, so let’s remember some of those.

“Past a diving Jeter!” got robbed by the selection committee.

These NFL players he just met, invited him out to smoke an illegal substance. They invited a guy they forcibly argued with beforehand to smoke a substance banned in the NFL.

33.Around 11:55 p.m. or shortly after midnight on April 28, 2017, Defendants told Plaintiff to follow them outside. Plaintiff believed the group was headed outside for lawful purpose.

With each viral story, what’s reinforced isn’t that running is difficult and that sometimes you can’t finish, but that competition is selfish, and true athletes make sure others finish.

“Yeah it’s fine, you just might have to taze yourself now and then to get to sleep.”

Oh Daly’s an idiot or toeing the company line on a bullshit report for sure. But it makes some small sense as a defense because ice is fucking hard and the boards give a bit.

I had the same experience.