I’m honestly more annoyed by the white sneaker and jorts in that lede photo.

They are just trying to drum up interest since last year’s playoffs featured too many sweeps.

+1 chop on the Trop

He’s the reason Harvey is only the second-biggest disaster to hit the US this year.

“Hurricane Harvey is still running Texas through the ringer...”

Fantastic line from the SBNation version of this story.

and what would have LH said if he would have hit the debris? He’s a tool.

I once pulled off an unassisted triple play at shortstop as a 10 year old. Caught a liner, tagged the runner in front of me, and then finally ran over to first myself after being reduced to a ball of tears by all the yelling parents and coaches because I was so confused about who was still not out.

After a verbal survey, it seems many call it soccer baseball here which has made me angrier

Hahahahaha sure dude, we’ll split off and be a state called Chicagoland, and you all can live in “OMG holy shit we have no money for anything”. Enjoy that.

Traveling alone during the day: incredible. Do as much or as little as you want, as quickly or slowly as you want, whatever you want. At night: lonely af. This applied both when I was in Germany for a week by myself and when I went to Joshua Tree by myself.

There have been some horrendous takes in the questions of this column over the years, but “corn on the cob is bad” is among the worst. Fuck you, dude. Corn on the cob is the shit.

Counterpoint: Dressing nicely might score you a free upgrade (but very likely won’t), while dressing comfortably is a sure bet.

Back in my day, players didn’t need coddling. Hell, that little league pitcher Danny Almonte wouldn’t even drive his children on the team for ice cream after losses.

Added Tinkle, “I was so scared I almost me’d in my pants.”

I am not sure that that is necessarily genius. My 5 yr old does that all the time when he gets in trouble, “Hey, buddy, did you do this bad thing that got you in trouble?” “Daddy did you know I like Pokemon and I own a restaurant in Charlottesville”.

fixed it

• if you simply must drive during this celestial event, you can safely look at the eclipse through a moonroof, but not a sunroof.

Yeah, blocking traffic may cause hardships, and if it’s a main road, it may not be avoidable even. It’s not an ideal form of protest IMO. But drawing a connection between that and what Nazis did to truly restrict movement?

I loved his “ok, alright” in the gentle voice. “Just let it happen. Accept your defeat gracefully” lol