DeGromm and not Thor? That would shock me. Syndeggard seems like most likely option.

Used to water Nelson Doubleday’s 3 office plants in upper mid-town Manhattan NYC once a week during the late 90s. He seemed a very congenial & friendly older man who didn’t flaunt his wealth ie much better than the cheap-ass & broke Wilpon family. Have always been a NL baseball fan btw.

Speaking as a Mets fan, the ONLY way this makes sense is if the Mets are about to trade Jacob DeGrom and need a stable pitcher to take his place in the rotation. That said...I don’t think our GM has the guts -- or the permission from the Wilpons -- to make that trade.

Owning the Yanks.

How long do you think they kept a straight face when they told him he got traded to New York?

The Orioles are the dreary, regular kind of shitty. The Mets opened this season honestly believing they’d contend for a championship! Their dipshit general manager, who calls in game-day decisions from his damn couch, told the rest of the NL East to “come get us.”

Mets fan since ‘71, listened to the game today, and when Frazier hit his two-run home run in the 9th, I felt absolutely nothing. Not because it wasn’t a splendid moment, but because I knew — the way Spock knows that when he drops a hammer on a positive-gravity planet, he doesn’t have to see it fall to know that it has…

If you think we’ve hit peak Mets, you haven’t been following long enough, before this season ends there will be a taxi incident, a player missing a game out partying, 10 more pressers of BVW saying, “this is fine”. Please hug David.

See you tomorrow, Mickey Callaway!

David and I have been emailing about this around of LOL, and I’m afraid, he might finally have lost it and walked off the face of the earth.

People are being willfully ignorant about this song at this point. The historical context has been explained ad nauseum re: the woman wanting to stay but being unable to say so explicitly due to social norms at the time and the man trying to give her reasons to stay so as to provide her with cover. And the line…

$1 per bag for the bellhop was standard when I was working in US hotels back in the early 80s. Seems like a minimum like that should be off the table by now. Not saying it isn’t. Just saying it should be.

5 grand buys about a picosecond’s worth of ad time on an MLB broadcast.  It’s hilarious how much bad press it buys MLB.

I think this is almost entirely a show put on for the media. Any GM unwilling to sign a perennial 6 WAR player who hasn’t even hit his prime yet because of one interview should be fired, and out of a cannon. But once some columnist makes a big deal out of it, suddenly everyone in baseball has to play along with this…

To be fair, a prime Mike Morse at full speed would lose a footrace to a disinterested Eddie Gaedel.

AV Club still sticking up for Ghostbusters is the progressive version of the sunken cost fallacy.

And what this “means” is that, on Trump’s pre-presidential trips to Saudi Arabia, Saudi intelligence got fully as much blackmail material on him as did the Russians. Between money and sexual blackmail, both those states have Trump on a short, tight leash.

One of the many subtleties Trump is missing here is, when you put the murder of your enemies on the political table, you’re putting yourself on that table, too.

Can you even imagine Trump serving people like Obama in that pic?

This question has a pretty simple answer, in my mind.