Dover! Nice to see my beloved York County in the news. I went 2-4 with 2 doubles and 2 strikeouts in a JV baseball game at Dover in 1991. Good times!

Lived in Baltimore in the late 90s, on the tail end of Homicide’s run, and I’ve been telling people ever since that it’s far and away the best show ever made, and that I liked it way more than The Wire. Live out west now, and most people I say that to have never even heard of it. Which is a shame—it may or may not…

Additional counterpoint: this movie gave Admiral Ackbar about as much respect as season 1 of Stranger Things gave Barb.

Counterpoints (spoiler alerts):

Regarding the allegation that Dusty Baker ruined Mark Prior’s career:

Counterpoint: any season that has football, a boring, fascist sport, is by definition an inferior season to other seasons. This really cannot be overstated.

This might be what you meant, but I’ll add for clarification anyway: a bat flip on a popup for which the infield fly rule is called would be incredible.

When pro sports teams strong-arm cities/states into paying for a new arena, they do so with the threat (or promise, depending on the vantage point) of relocation. What was the leverage here? Did the University of Louisville basketball team threaten to move to Seattle?

Huey Lewis and the News! Great soundtrack to that video. “Sports” was the first album (actually a cassette ) I ever bought, inspired by seeing them sing the national anthem before the the all-star game that I guess was at Candlestick in probably 1984? It was and remains brilliant.

And oh my god—I tried to jokingly correct grammar and typed “their” instead of “there.” There really can be no civility. I’m an idiot. I apologize to the world, and to you, Surlac. Good night.

“To WHOM.”

Agreed. I especially like that he often tells you what the pitch was, which most radio broadcasters seldom do. And he’s generally good at quickly describing a routine play that can and should be easily and quickly described—it drives me nuts when, say, there’s a foul popup that’s 30 rows back and it takes the…

Completely agree on both points here—other than Trumbo’s homer, the offense did nothing that game, and I think Buck recognized that. And more importantly, having Ubaldo on the roster for a one-game playoff as a potential reliever is nonsense and is an organization-wide mistake for which Buck should not be the only one…

The expansion Golden Knights, on the other hand, will begin play this fall in a brand-new arena that was entirely privately funded (a 50/50 venture between MGM and AEG), and if just because of capacity and climate, an indoor 20,000-seat arena is going to host many more events, sports and otherwise, than a…

The Sweet 16 teams that are worth rooting for.

Tom Crean brought us through one of the most challenging periods in IU basketball history, led his players to many successes in the classroom and on the court and represented our university with class and integrity.

And it’s his response from going from southeastern Pennsylvania to western Germany

It drives me nuts that the Orioles have a similar no-long-hair, no-beards policy (players are allowed to have a “well groomed goatee”)—you’d think that an AL East team would do everything it could to NOT be like the Yankees. Plus, where would the late-’70s, early-’80s Orioles teams been without the contributions of…

Regarding the quote from the CNN story about “donors losing tax exemptions”:

Virtually everything you write is correct, except for one major point: