Here. (I called it a post but perhaps I should have said column.)

I never got around to commenting on it, but I didn’t really have a strong preference for any of the teams in the postseason, and your post about why I should root for Cleveland was so good it singlehandedly made my mind up for me.

I have no stats, but just from watching my team this season, it seems like intentionally walking the bases loaded hardly ever works out. Of course, my team finished last in their division, so YMMV.

*Claytons Kershaw

“I just hope he’s happy and I hope he’s good.”

“...especially if you follow a team no one cares about.”

I was thinking of Beast Mode, but Newton fits too.

I seem to remember the NFL/terrible media people took offense to a player not answering questions in the recent past....

Seriously. I only once got to a game early enough to see batting practice, and the things people were teaching their young (<10 yrs old) children to yell at players were disgusting.

+1 stately, plump Buck Mulligan

As far as I know, whether a batter is hit is also not reviewable. In an A’s/Angels game earlier this week, the umpire said a batter had been hit when the ball very clearly had bounced off his bat. (It should have also been clear from the player’s non-reaction and the fact the umpire had to convince him to take a base,…

This is not quite as bad as what happened to A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell earlier this season: he got his first big league hit and was thrown out on the same play trying to stretch it into a double. (Coincidentally, I think that was also against Cleveland.)

I was in kindergarten in California in 1992, and I definitely heard the second verse back then. I also remember occasionally hearing this variation to the first verse: “...and the Joker did ballet.”

Winning this series has made the last four and a half months of the A’s grinding my soul into the dirt slightly more bearable. Especially since Khris Davis stroked another monster dong (and Andrew Triggs got his first big league win).

This was all I was hoping for from this A’s season at this point. It felt pretty good.

It also happens every day in all the schools I’ve taught at in central California.

I was just thinking what a cheesy cuss he looks like in that picture (pretty much in every Team USA picture I’ve seen, actually).

As an A’s fan, I just hope my sorry-ass team can do the same in a few weeks.

I just can’t wait to see how high Hunter Pence starts hiking his pants now that they’re doing away with the low strike.

I always hope players leaving the Yankees immediately grow the most obnoxious facial hair possible.