Other famous Thurls: Thurl Ravenscroft

I didn’t know he had one! This is clearly because I am an illiterate moron when it comes to reading bylines roughly 5 inches above this comment. I’ll have to check it out.

The history nerd in me rejoiced at every word of this.

Yeah but I’d bet he wouldn’t say it about a dirt-poor white kid from the sticks.

He was lucky with talent in Boston, and I don’t think he’s a top 3 coach. But he’s absolutely not anywhere NEAR as bad as he’s been made out to be recently. He’s a very good coach. He’s a very, very terrible GM-type, and I think people conflate his incompetence at personnel decisions with his actual coaching acumen. 

I feel like you can maybe give benefit of the doubt on the first one, although given that things had been escalating already, maybe not. But he did it twice. Chris is being a little disingenuous when he says “Rhame’s wild pitch was seen, by the Phillies at least, as the final act....” as if to imply that it wasn’t…

That clip ends at the absolute PERFECT moment.

*quickly googles Travis Frederick*

No, not everything is fair play in a court of law. This “evidence”, and any testimony to that effect, would be deemed irrelevant and disallowed by the judge. In terms of the court of public opinion, it should only sway you if you are of the mind that someone can do something that later makes them deserve being…

It’s probably got a lot more to do with calling attention to it and trying to extract some kind of sacrifice or punishment to him, even if it is reputational damage and the inconvenience of paying for some part of the court process. I would be shocked if this didn’t A) settle, or B) end up dismissed, but with a big…

Right. THAT’S why you’ll be sucking down a whole pint of half-baked later. I see right through you.

Trying to write a Master’s paper that is ~5 years overdue. Hope the rest of you have a better night.

I empathize with this far more than I should.

I empathize with far more than I’m comfortable.

The Celtics aren’t beating the Bucks even if they play their absolute best basketball. Also a Celtics fans.

Sir, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

See: Hurricanes, Carolina

Never do see a good flensing these days.

I also used to be a team blog editor, and I also used to treat it that way. But I put far more than 40 a week into it for probably a solid 4-5 years out of the 6-7 that I ran it, and the problem isn’t that I was shortchanged, it’s that a multi-million or multi-billion dollar corporation generated ad revenue and profit…

I recall this being a joke remedy in high school. It always made it hurt worse and brought the attendant nausea to the forefront.