That's one of the most Boston things I've seen in a while.

ALL FOUR broadcasting crews knew the rule immediately, but the umpiring crew didn't. Guh.

If a belief that being a woman includes "everyone treat[ing] you like a fucking idiot all of the time," then that is an intractable starting point. Enjoy your eternal victimhood. You are un-empower-able. Good day.

I have to say - I don't like Snyder, but I can at least respect the no-bullshit response.

Pitchers will be required to wear helmets inside of five years. I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet at sub-MLB levels of baseball, especially given our current "safety-first" cultural climate.

I'm totally confused by every single aspect of this story.

I'm really happy for Ace. Every time he does something like this, I think about him coming from VERY humble beginnings, and how the 12-year-old him wouldn't even be able to comprehend something like this happening to him 35 years or so later.

I'm confused - is that directed at me, or at the author of this piece?

He was a businessman who had a good idea that worked. It wasn't for everybody, but that was ok - we still had the New Yorker, literary journals, Rolling Stone magazine, the WSJ, and so on. Seems to me that most of the folks who had a problem with him were simply irritated by his success, in much the same way that a…

Seriously: Good for him. Very cool.

A team that's been around less than half as long as the ancient teams of baseball, and which has won exactly zero World Series, has nine retired numbers.

Fucking allergies . . .

Maybe in a hypothetical Dodgers - Angels World Series (a longshot, of course) someone at Fox would have the good sense to put him on the national broadcast since this is his last season. With all due respect to Joe Buck (whom I actually like), it would be pretty amazing to see / hear Scully do one last World Series…

To be fair, even if he's in New Canaan, Boston is still within the radius of his ego.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. That is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

"You're in a handicapped spot!"
"IT'S A FERRARI!"
(Later)
"I'LL BUY YOUR WHOLE FAMILY, MOTHERFUCKER!"

People like this douchebag give rich people a bad (worse) name.

I wrote an article in law school on this phenomenon, and I pointed out that the advances in video games had just made the EA/NCAA that much weaker. I noted that the quarterback for Miami in NCAA 2003 (the then-current game) had the same number, height, weight, skin tone, and attributes as the real-life Ken Dorsey. …

I get the symbolism in play, but, to me, this adding anything to the gun debate is a little stupid. There's no real connection between what happened here and the big issues related to guns, aside from the fact that this particular race happened to have NRA sponsorship. In other words, I don't think the major…

None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for efforts by conservatives to limit abortions, whether in terms of gestation or access to those who can't afford them. This is why abortions should be strongly regulated for safety by state government oversight, free to everyone (i.e. taxpayer-subsidized), and…

I was wondering the same thing.