My mom has a letter from the NY baseball Giants asking my dad to show up for a tryout, or I think she does anyway. It was dated 1944. I've seen it, but not for many years. There is also a VHS tape converted from 8 mm film of him throwing a perfect game in semi-pro ball in upstate NY. He was a high-kicking lefty with a…

It would be 61 years before the Giants would again try to sign a quarterback who had already been drafted.

Nothing in the letter about smoking weed, punching your girl, or hitting your kid with a switch.

I hear they're still sending out letters for the QB position.

I bet her farts go through three generations before they are free.

100%. Falcao has "Galatasaray" written all over him.

That sounds ok. My local redemption center has a special, or "unlocked gate" in the local parlance, where one can get nearly unlimited last sips out of the bottoms of various cans of various beers after they have been redeemed for one shiny nickel apiece. I'm not sure what percentage of the beer cans have a soggy…

Photo: Large stack of dirty plates on table.

this ice bucket challenge has really made me worry about humanity.

You must be awful fun at parties.

Why should the FAA get to decide how private companies utilize their property. They can FOAD with this potential requirement.

Looks like the Harbaugh Bros got a pair of Ray Bans

Inside Roger Goodell's brain: Mitigating, mitigating. But crap, she's pregnant. Wait, that's makes it two against one, doesn't it? Yeah, there's definitely some high quality mitigates going on there.

I'll take the charitable view and assume "bad timing" means "while she's still pregnant".

Goddamnit, Kevin.

I worked at a go-kart, bumper boat, batting cage place in high school. When it would rain we'd shut down the batting cages because they'd throw the ball all over the place. Like behind you, at your head etc with no consistency. It was like Russian Batting Cage Roulette. Of course, after our shift would end, and having…

I wish there was a small, independent sports blog that hasn't sold out.

well being that you didnt toast your bagel it didnt work fine

Oh it's a totally reasonable fear. In-Bev changed the fucking BUDWEISER recipe to save money when they acquired it. (I think it was switching from whole grain rice to broken grains that are cheaper on the commodity market, something like that; I'm also not 100 percent positive that story's true, but I've heard it…

Goose Island has basically become Sam Adams. The beer is good, consistent, not really your first choice, but if someone brings it to your party they are allowed to drink anything else that folks bring (unlike the guy who brings Rolling Rock and then drinks all the North Coast...fuck that guy). Except their Bourbon…