It’s a pretty thorough apology, at least. Doesn’t buy his way out of this mess, but he’s not hemming and hawing about it, from how I’m reading it.

New Yorkers were griping that they didn’t get rid of Ellsbury.

THAT would have been some serious “the fix is in” stuff... getting rid of a useless outfielder with a no-trade clause, holy mother of god... I wouldn’t have thought anything about that was kosher. This feels a bit less ridiculous to me.

I’m a Yankee fan. My…

If they’re losing money and still not playing .500 ball, why pay the extra $30 million? It sort of becomes immaterial.

Is this just the natural reaction to a team that is managed like my six-year-old kid’s first attempt at playing a flight simulator? OVERPAY! Oh shoot... we’re stalling. UNDERPAY! Oh shoot... we’re too lousy to sell tickets. OVERPAY! Oh shoot... It’s the stall/dive/stall/dive overcompensation problem.

Heh.

And if Foles wins the super bowl, the eagles will have endless grief ever playing Wentz again, because there’s nothing Iggles fans like like a backup quarterback.

Which brings me to the number 5. There are five letters in the word Blaine. Now, if you mix up the letters in the word Blaine, mix ‘em around, eventually, you’ll come up with Nebali. Nebali. The name of a planet in a galaxy way, way, way... way far away.

Spot on, and a good question. I think generally comedic fiction isn’t given the same weight as sketch comedy or full on dramatic television shows.

I went to Oberlin. Oberlin itself is like an Onion parody of liberals.

Wasn’t that the original working title for “Girls?”

That light pole practically made a boi-oi-oi-oi-oing noise. Didn’t notice that spring action the first time. Yikes.

I’m going to assume you never watched “Jersey Shore?”

If you look at the county breakdowns, EVERY rural county is blood red, it seems like. I don’t know why, but it’s almost universally consistent. New York state is as blue as blue gets, and if you drove through Orange or Columbia counties, the lawn signs were all for trump.

The thought of getting one was completely killed for me when I saw the dog poop incidents people reported... the thought of a layer of puke all over everything is equally chilling.

I can’t stop laughing at this.

I read a piece a while back by a senior police officer (can’t recall the details) who said he felt like 15% of police will do the right thing consistently. 15% will do shady things, and the remaining 70% will basically go along with whatever’s being done by whichever part of that 15+15 they happen to be around.…

I would figure he would have done that a long while ago if he was going to.

I just still can’t believe anyone named Nikki is being given the authority to make real choices.

No scores at the end... I almost couldn’t believe that wasn’t there.

I figured maybe it’d be in the text... also nope. Sort of weird to say that you have to then go back and watch through AGAIN to get the scores?

Right, and that would be what one would call “bad pizza.” Whether local or domino’s, you’re limiting your comparison to lousy pizza.