Vanilla vodka and ginger ale tastes just like cream soda somehow.

Bob Feller

Dock Ellis

I feel that way about the NFL, but not MLB. I like multiple baseball teams and hate multiple baseball teams. I’m a Raiders fan, and they have sucked for most of this century, and I have tried to choose another NFL team to root for and I just can’t do it. On the other hand, my uncle brainwashed me into a Red Sox fan…

It’s double elimination in the sense that either team will be eliminated with a loss. I dislike Deadspin’s usage of the phrase here, too, as it traditionally refers to a different type of tournament.

6' 6" TV star Chuck Connors played badasses in The Rifleman and Branded (nice, good guy badasses, though.) He was in the Army during WWII and spent most of it as a tank warfare instructor stateside.

I didn’t know that. In hindsight, it is easy to say it would be better to pitch to Coghlan to try for the third out and face Chapman again with the score still tied than what happened. I do understand Roberts’ decision and it is reasonable. It just didn’t work out. Blanton throwing nothing other than that slider,…

That’s why I said “I’m not saying it was a good reason.” I would have pitched to Coghlan. Getting out of of the inning and facing Chapman again with the the game still tied would certainly have been better than what happened.

The reason was to force Chapman out as pitcher, because he was on deck and that’s why Montero was the pinch hitter there.

And Blanton had Montero at 0-2, one strike away from getting out of the inning clean. But he was throwing nothing but sliders, allowing Montero to expect another, and he threw a bad one at a critical time, so pitch selection was a factor here, too. Maybe throw anything else for a waste pitch, then go back to the…

Tanner Boyle.

Does it matter that he was an eligible receiver, as the announcer said, or not? It was not a forward pass. Just curious. If not, this maybe should happen with ineligible receivers too. Belichick would do it.

“Werth has been the jabber monkey for Washington...” Can we make Jabber Monkey a permanent nickname for Werth? Thanks.

Fuck it. Kinja sucks.

I’m a Red Sox fan and a Jose Fernandez fan, too. This sucks.

I would like to point out here that ducks can fly. If they can’t fly away from a bear, that’s their fault. If the ducks need to be in water to achieve flight velocity, that is that woman’s fault. Also, ducks are delicious. Man, I want to eat a duck right now.

Yeah, man, shut the fuck up. How the fuck did you get ungrayed with shit opinions like this? I don’t believe Chip Kelly is a racist. He just wanted to jettison people who complained and did not believe in his (possibly crazy) system. He may be over rated as a football coach, but I am still not convinced he is a…

Rolling it or bouncing it would entail more inherent risk than simply making a normal throw to the catcher and also open the door to a steal of home.

It’s “per se.” It is a Latin phrase meaning “by itself.”  It has nothing to do with how you phrase something. That is a common misconception, but a person debating semantics should know that.

Blue Jays fans travel, it seems, or maybe they are simply widespread. I went to a game at Yankee Stadium in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s and there was a large contingent of apparently Dominican Jays fans (OK, maybe a lot of them didn’t travel far. There are a lot of Dominicans in NYC) in the upper right field…