I would say it is still easier with a bigger budget because it allows them to buy depth and not be crippled by one mistake, but Cashman has done a great job there and they have drafted and developed as well as anybody.  People think the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers buy success, but if you look at those rosters they…

best thing I ever did was say screw the grillmarks, and plop my cast iron skillet on top of the grate. This gives me the best of both worlds. All my meat and veggies get the perfect, even crust, while absorbing the smoky grill flavor that only cooking over a coal fire can provide. 

You know, Boonie is on to something here. For as Rousseau said in his Discourse on Inequality, “In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others.” That is, in “the box” the batter…

Pitaro was hoisted by his own Le Batard.

Concussing the other catcher? That’s a plunking.

“I think Sabathia is trying to communicate that whatever words caught Garcia’s attention were intended for home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi”

I’ve turned this commentary into an mp3, and I’ll fall asleep listening to it every night for the rest of my life. 

If you’re listening, you are the resistance 

I’ve always had great success with the “5 more minutes” (or “Oscar Mike in 5" as they came to know it), but the key was they got an update every minute.
The beauty of this was that this “5-minute” countdown could take 5 minutes, or it could be done in 2. As long as they got a countdown, “minutes” could go by as quickly…

ApathyMonger sure seems to care a lot.

Delicious.

MLK isn’t famous because he was murdered. 

Meanwhile, Dan Shaughnessy’s left doing the chores:

“This advice is along the lines of ‘you can be anything you want to be’” 

My girlfriend on long car trips loves to play the “Name all 32 NFL teams”-game.

Oddly enough all three of them are still being paid by the Mets.

On the bright side, the 19 outs in 6.1 innings pitched ties the record for most outs recorded in that amount of innings

It was a typo. They meant to write, “...but Norfolk’s right fielder forgets how many people are in attendance at the game.”

“two agents seemed to be courting”

The media and many Yankees fans have been absolutely BRUTAL to him over the most bullshit reasons. “He seems cocky and full of himself.” No shit! He’s a former hyped prospect and rookie ballplayer who’s good! How is he different from anyone else? I just don’t understand.