“hey, cool take. (Cracks knuckles, gives menacing glare)“

You mean Cairo (KAY-ro), Vienna (VY-enna), Athens (EIGHTH-ens), Versailles (ver-SALES), and Milan (MY-len)?

Going back quite a ways here, the San Francisco Giants of the 1960's got close SO many times, but made just one World Series (1962). They finished second every year from 1965-68, and second in the new NL West in 1969. They managed one more division title in ‘71, but almost blew that lead, too, as the Dodgers took them…

it is legitimately strange for a former “flash in the pan” to not either become a superstar or a one-hit wonder, but just settle into being a good player.

that’s longer ago than I thought, but still too damn recent.

Pekin, Illinois named their high school teams the Chinks until maybe 20 years ago. Their mascot was a student in “Chinaman” garb. I am not making this up. I believe they’re called the Dragons now, but some locals hang on to the old name.

My commencement speaker was first-term Congressman Paul Ryan. Who knew...

I’d still rather drink Old Style than Coors Light. A beer whose primary marketing approach is that “it’s COLD!” is not....it’s not good, Al. It stinks.

even their t-shirts are fucking $50. and both Lonzo Ball and I have the same number of NBA minutes.

apparently you’ve never heard Innervisions?

Serve those in a cup with syrup poured over it like ranch dressing? I’d pay $3.99 at Corner Bakery for that shit.

If you go to a club/bar in an east coast college town today, 90% of its patrons were conceived to “Crash Into Me”.

Side note: Boston might be racist, but how many black STAR players have the St. Louis Cardinals had since Lou Brock retired? (Also, Lou Brock was not as good as you think - Tim Raines with a worse glove, at best. But that’s another story.) Seriously. Ray Lankford, maybe?

Seriously. If you’re at Rutgers or Kentucky or Texas Tech, and there’s enough game tape of you as a freshman destroying quarterbacks or making highlight-reel catches, why play 12-13 games for a 4-9 team for another year?

 The Bulls are worse than a clusterfuck; they’re a low playoff seed, and thus can’t blow things up that easily.

“Pick a team from the Axis Of Evil (Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Patriots, Notre Dame, etc.)“

Pssh big deal. Even i got a hit off of Lester last night.

Buster Olney? but I see your point.

which will never, ever happen. Berman was great in the 80s, particularly the vintage NFL PrimeTime (when it was just Chris and TJ, occasional Robin Roberts updates, and a solid hour of highlights), but got to be a clown show once the network became the behemoth.

In all seriousness, this is probably fine. Jeter loves the ladies but appears to be a decent fellow, and Jeb was one of the least detestable options in the GOP primaries last year.