Another happy subscriber here. That said, the management behind that fine publication also expressed a rather gross vampiric desire: “We will suck [local papers] dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.” And presumably part of their long-term strategy involves…

Urena was a dirtbag for doing this, but while he may only miss one start on a five-game suspension, he does lose the same amount of money that a position player would.

Hear, hear

Safe to say this cover did not age well.

Never Forget:

I’m starting to think twice about robot umps.

Holy shit that first touch before his first goal.

Laughed out loud.

Ha! The slow buildup while following the trajectory—Who will it be?—was wholly paid off by the reveal.

Pearl Jam - “Rearviewmirror” - Live on SNL (1994)

I don’t think he’s gonna make it. Johnny Damon was a better player and a huge part of a legendary squad, yet he fell off the ballot on his first try.

He’ll be fine. Pitchers have adjusted to pound him inside with fastballs that he has struggled to connect on, especially from the left side. He will adjust soon enough.

They’re not merely cheap, per se. Rather, they cynically extract every bit of surplus value of labor based on rules designed to exploit young productive talent, then when said young productive talent earn the right to fair wages instead of further investing on their own squad they shamelessly sell off any part that…

“Voidable Guarantees”

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Shibata Kotetsu AS 210mm (~8") Gyuto

Shibata Kotetsu AS 210mm (~8") Gyuto

Ha, thought I made sure that my screenshot contained nothing even remotely interesting. Good eye, fam.

It also made split-screen annoyingly circuitous:

The man is decidedly not funny, which makes him hilariously funny.

“Civious” in this context is totally cromulent usage.