After a quick and probably inaccurate count: I’ve been to probably 100 pro baseball games in my life (49 years old). I have never caught a foul ball and at the age of 49, if I did catch one, I would give it to youngest kid nearest to me. Yeah, I am being a moralizing asshole, but fuck this guy.

Honed on Spanish soil: I suspect that’s the reason.

We Americans understand that if we earn income overseas we have to report it and pay taxes on it above, I think, $60000 for an individual. The rest of the world doesn’t do that, BUT his domicile of employment is in Spain and he works primarily there. I suspect that Spanish law does not allow him to separate use of his…

I bought a 1969 Karmann Ghia in 1987 for $500. It was a project for sure, but became an archaeological/archive research effort when I pulled off the door interior panels and found years of receipts and cancelled checks stuffed there. The windows would not roll down there were so many. So my dad and I sat down and put…

The whole concept of law (nomos) is based on drawing a line around activity. The word nomos itself comes from the notion of a bounded space/allotment of land that is controlled.

Well, it’s apparent that Spanish law doesn’t allow it. US law does somewhat. The point here is that he’s a tax evader in a country that needs every damn cent to keep from bonking on its sovereign debt. Last count from EuroStat: 18% unemployment.

It’s one thing to do your tax accounting within the law. It is a whole other thing to create a shell company in a tax haven that holds the rights to your image and the income from that image to avoid paying taxes on that income.

Tax evasion is a Spanish tradition, just like having 2.7 great football teams that shell out hundreds of millions of dollars a year to win the Champions League.

Sort of like the Spanish La Liga.

This. And it isn’t even a universalizing religion. In other words, there are no Jewish Franklin Graham try to get you to come Moses down by the Red Sea.

Plan: Get tickets with code “berkman17.” Tailgate before game. Get fantastically drunk. Go into game. Drop acid. Mingle.

The Exit 16 IPA from Flying Fish!

MADE WITH GRASSY KNOLL VODKA.

Kelly Tripucka does not get enough love.

*Tim Duncan. Goddam edibles.

Look. It’s Friday and I live in a legalized state. And I can laugh at myself. Which I am. Fuck.

NB. Tim Howard was not on PEDs.

50s NBA: Essentially allstar pickup teams and some other guys who knew the rules of the game.

Drinking SlumBrew in Somerville?

Hot taek: Crosby is more talented than all of them. Gretzky played zero defense, Kuri was an average skater, and Yzerman didn’t have the vision on the ice. Crosby is just a notch above all of them. (Yes, I know that Gretzky scored all those goals, but could you imagine how many he would have had in the world of no…