And another thing (I’ll probably get shunned from the site for this) but Kitchenette seems to take the stance that in any incident between an employee and employer, the employer is always guilty with no chance to prove they are in the right.

“It’s never a defeat if you call it the Undefeated.” -Whitlock

Diet Coke tastes like Satan extracted his own bile, gargled it, then spit it into an aluminum can.

If you really want to see that, ban switch hitting.

Because then both the pitcher and hitter get what they want. Pitcher can force a hitter to hit from the side he thinks gives him an advantage, batter still gets platoon advantage.

“Neat”? Fuck “neat”. The rarity of a switch pitcher doesn’t mean you should get to kneecap the platoon advantage.

Yes, because getting hits in the majors is so easy, that’s why being successful at it even 4 times out of every 10 tries happens all the time.

The advantage goes to the pitcher if the pitcher gets to declare. Think about it, if a switch hitter hits .280 for power on one side and .215 with less power on the other, you wouldn’t want the hitter to have the option to pick.

Because this happened without the rule when Venditte was in short season-A ball when he faced a switch hitter. It wound up being a standoff because as soon and Venditte switched his glove, the batter wanted to switch sides.

tl;dr, don’t believe you ever played pro.

Uh, chill, angry-ass little League child?

When you’re providing play-by-play for a game, you’re often interviewing both teams ahead of time. Part of that is you talk to them about what they plan to do, so that you can bring that up while you’re calling the match to provide some depth to the commentary.

He was so promising, then he really flamed out.

What do you know? A literal torching of his job prospects.

I casually went over to Callahan’s Twitter feed. Fox News AND National Review retweets. Holy shit.

School district administrators are usually guided by a school district attorney, whose only interest is not doing anything that could the school district fined or sued. The people responsible for the school public information and media relations get pushed to the side pretty much instantaneously except to write and…

We’ve all been there. This is me with my keyboard most days:

Mariners, not Marlins. You were only off by 3,300 miles.

• “Well, it’s been a not-so-quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out there on the edge of the prairie.”

But then we can’t refer to the douches that wear them as the Fedoration.