And three more right behind him. The former closer (Soria) is going to be the setup guy’s setup guy, for godssake. But kudos to the Yankees for seeing the future, which is multiple closers. It only makes sense if you want to win the playoffs.

The metro is 2 million. It's the #31 market. No matter what benchmark you use, it's astounding.

a-mouldering

That was an AWESOME throw to Tulo.

Eric, though I totally agree with the premise of the piece, the elephant in the room is EDUCATION. Yes, you were poor. Yes, I grew up in a trailer park. But guess what? The minute we were awarded those college diplomas — heck, even the moment we graduated high school — our predicted outcomes improved dramatically. I…

Because you had it all figured out at 18.

Read Rick Telander’s book THE HUNDRED YARD LIE. He had a football scholarship to Northwestern in 1972, and even then they totally owned his ass. The idea that Rick and I had remotely comparable NU undergrad experiences is nonsense. College football above D-3 is a fucking full time job and given the millions each…

To be fair, it did get up to 80 today in Kansas City.

Greg, please don’t let ESPN steal you away. Do the fucking “black Grantland” here.

And have his dive into the stands web gem retired by ESPN.

This is even funnier because I can’t decide which one you mean.

The pens and pencils Field Notes sells are the best in class. I still buy the pens even though I’m pretty sure they’re premium Bic.

I thought you were going to say “... brings up the kiss between Bronze and the sideline chick.”

Holy Hypermart, am I reading that widget right — more than four thousand of those Samsung displays were sold via Kinja Deals??

Says a guy who reads something called Funbag! every week.

Of course you wouldn't. There aren't any journalists here.

I spent an evening following him around at the K when he was in town. I found him intense and likable. His book on watching the game is superior to anything I’ve ever read on Dickspin.

It’s also exactly the kind of game that either the Royals or Brewers manager Ned Yost would have pissed away not that long ago.

Is there anything in there that will make my sloooooow iPad 2 better?