I just got home from the game, and the roar after Soto hammered that pitch to right was unquestionably the loudest sound I have ever heard.  It’s easy to get hyper-cynical in DC these days (or anywhere really), but that was a very cool sports moment.  

Iiiiiiiiiiiiin West Philadelphia

In Gladwell’s defense, the Penn State coaching staff and administration probably spent more than 10,000 hours raping children and ignoring it, so he’d have to reject the entire premise of one of his own books if he didn’t recognize their expertise in the field.

Ideally we can get rid of the major league games too. Just analyze the swings of each team’s hitters, the spin rate of each team’s pitchers, and declare a champion.

The clip is only 57 seconds long, but the ball’s recording device recorded 18 hours of static while it was in right field.

I beg to differ. They’ll probably be walled up in a Costco or some type of gun store, and then they’ll all slowly kill themselves fighting over the last pair of sunglasses not made in China.

That’s a bullshit way to break up a no-hitter. 

Movie guy is 1000% spot on. I learned this lesson one day a few months after my kid was born when I left work early because I was sick. I wasn’t sick, just tired and unable to put up with people’s shit. Not wanting to take my surely ass home to my MIL and baby right away, I went to a movie. It was two hours of bliss.…

I feel the same way about flights as movie theater guy. I know they are cramped, the whole experience can be stressful, but there’s a certain euphoria I get when I’m buckled in, and have absolutely no control or obligations for the next x amount of hours. (save for not being an ass to other passengers.) I’ve been…

This cashless thing is really going to fuck over vendors who walk the seating areas too, no? A lot less likely to utilize these guys and certainly to leave a tip if you are swiping a card. 

His election is like something out of a Greek myth — he got exactly everything he didn’t want. He now has to live in a city he hates, surrounded by people who hate him, and spend his days in boring nerd-ass meetings and reading reams of dry reports prepared by other nerds. Imagine if Sisyphus could just step aside and…

“Colon Coming For That Throne.”

I don’t know man. You hear a story like this and you just have to wonder how these burglars could be so gripped by that much economic anxiety.

Baseball is the only sport that actually looks like America.

Oh, they’ll realize it when they’re dying of untreated kidney failure or something. Really, though, it shouldn’t take that much.

Nice of him to share a vote with his wife.

Rich Hill in 2016 was better than Moyer in 2008, but Moyer was 45. I hope someday I’m lame enough to be compared to Jamie Moyer in something.

THANK YOU! When Clayton Kershaw has been pulled from playoff games, he’s left a total of 14 men on base. His bullpen has allowed 9 of those 14 to score. Another fun stat, Kershaw has pitched on short rest in the playoffs 4 times. All other pitchers combined have done it 7.

Kershaw’s career SIERA
reg - 2.99
post - 2.67