Car Talk is forever the perfect program because it’s permanently stuck in an era of cars I fully understand and can work on.

This was the highlight of my trip to Boston in 2015.

The day Tom died, I sent my local NPR station the biggest donation I had ever made to a charity of any kind with a note to keep airing Car Talk as long as they could. I don’t care it’s not new, I still get a big grin when I hear that banjo music on Saturday morning.

Yes. Decidedly. Watched initially and then just couldn’t any more. Total trainwreck.

If there were actually 3 in the Americas, this would be a better joke.

Eh, I’d say it is. UEFA and Commebol are clearly the top 2, Oceania is clearly 6th, so ranking 3rd, 4th and 5th is the question. Asia maybe has a case to make, but their typical best teams are Japan, South Korea and (now thanks to the wonkiness of FIFA) Australia. But I don’t think those nations are generally better…

This is hilarious since this is the same organization that lets Maldonado race.

Great story.

This constant policing of the game, and of latin players specifically, by white people has got to fucking stop. Maybe the game was a certain way once upon a time. That time has passed. Let people celebrate and be exuberant on the field. Part of the fun of any sport is seeing guys get hyped about what they’re doing and…

big idiot’s beef

They were just preparing, because in the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell!

What two of the world’s top drivers were doing at a Taco Bell is unclear.

“What two of the world’s top drivers were doing at a Taco Bell is unclear.”

Here is Tony Kanaan telling the story

Maddux: Max, I think we should put JJ on here.

We’re burying the lede here. Somehow, in contradiction to all the known laws of nature, the O’s started Ubaldo Jimenez against Scherzer, let Ubaldo go almost 8 innings, and DID NOT LOSE.

Too bad about their meteoric decline.

“it had the best stunt driving of the franchise”

To its credit, it had the best stunt driving of the franchise.