This one I caught, but as a bad speller, I too know the feeling of looking at a snarky “look at what this idiot spelled wrong!” post for a minute or two before just giving up.

We adopted and had nine day notice that baby was on the way. They gave us a helpful list of the things you actually need in the first weeks, and honestly, if you get invited to a baby shower, stick to these. Diapers wipes and cream, burp towels, formula (because we adopted), bottles, a few sets of clothes, a few…

When was the last time that listening rather than saying something got you into trouble?

I was stuck at LAX for about six hours a few weeks back. Just like you probably would, I thought, “sweet, perfect chance to get hammered on a Thursday afternoon.” Even better, I find a bar serving caipirinhas. Small problem though. Each drink costs $11.00, and they apparently thought you make a caipirinha with Bacardi…

Rejected Funbag letter discussion: What is the strangest object you have managed to get stuck in a tree? Bonus if it was sent up there to get something else out.

From what I am hearing, Von actually requested to be traded after they leaked the numbers they were offering to make him look bad. It was touch and go- we came thisclose to losing Brock and Von in one off season, which would have been a total disaster.

Lifelong Broncos fan and season ticket holder, not torn in the least. If they let him go, it tells me they know they are about to ask me to pay a whole lot of money to watch a team bumble through a multiple season rebuild. Because Elway’s an arrogant asshole who never should have let this go this far, but he’s not…

And that was the mildly entertaining semifinal.

I was in the first month of a high school statistics class that September. The running problem in our text was using various basic statistical concepts to compare Babe Ruth to Rodger Maris as career home run hitters- Ruth having good numbers most years peaking with 60, Maris having lower production most years and one…

I was in tears in a heap on the floor when the play finally got called back. The one time the Buffs will ever win anything and I was too busy recovering from a total emotional meltdown to enjoy it.

Yeah, I was a contrarian “anyone but MJ” guy back in those days. It wasn’t a terribly rewarding stance to take...

I was in Driver’s Ed that summer, and had to go to bed before the end of game 4 (it took three overtime periods before Uwe Krupp sealed the deal). Remember waking up when people started shooting off fireworks.

I was a Freshman in college for that game. The annoying woman upstairs who had a crush on me despite the fact that she was still dating her high school boyfriend came storming into the common room during the second half and demanded that I comfort her because she and the boyfriend had gotten into an argument earlier…

Super Bowl XXI, Giants vs. Broncos, January 1987. I was born in 1981. In my Kindergarten classroom (Runyon Elementary, Littleton, Colorado), we had an art project where we drew various members of the Denver Broncos in action, along with helpful tips for the big game. Mine was “Steve Watson: Don’t forget to catch the…

It’s still an imperfect comparison, but I think there are some historical paralells between English soccer and USA baseball. It’s where the sport was first organized, the sport came to the rest of the world through military and expat presence, and the country is home to the model domestic league. But while that would…

Fine, Oakland or Houston. You get the point.

Denver commuter perspective on this: nothing is going to happen for at least the next two weeks, since the entire league is on vacation. But since every other team in town sucks*, it is literally all the sports talk guys have talked about for the last week, and all they are going to talk about for the next two weeks.…

I had a friend in college who actually showed up to an IM soccer game in his full Bayern kit, down to the socks. He also insisted on playing keeper that game, even though he was in an outfield player uni, and even though he was a terrible keeper. We were a very bad team to begin with, so it was always a little…

Just remember, the Serbs and the Russians generally take the same side- most famously in 1914, but you can still find lots of ultra-nationalist Youtube videos celebrating the “Orthodox Brothers” (Russia, Serbia, Greece, and Armenia), frequently with references to favored soccer teams (Red Star and Olympiakos in…

The expanded Euro field will result in some real stinkers, just wait for it. I mean, are YOU getting up early for Albania-Switzerland in the morning? (I actually have a dog in that one, since the Colorado Rapid’s Shkelzen Gashi is playing for Albania, as one of the three MLS players in the tournament. But even with…