Marisnick was definitely not “already on the inside.” His right foot is clearly on the outside of the line here.

Truly a mystery of our times.

That’s a lot of words to say that you don’t know how to look at pictures.

I don’t think the contact was intentional, but you don’t ever, ever go inside unless the throw has pulled the catcher completely to the back side of the plate. The runner is given the lane to the outside. The catcher’s only reasonable place to set up (post Posey rule) is on the inside. The throw, obviously, is coming…

Safety aside, from an enjoyment perspective, I don’t know why you would bring a 2-year-old child to a baseball game, it can’t possibly be fun for anyone involved. And if you can afford the lower deck, you can afford a sitter.

I appreciate that nuance is always the enemy in this conversation but:

What’s that Elvis Costello quote (or maybe misquote)? Explaining music is like dancing about architecture?

Exact same logic.

I’ve mentioned this before, but the fundamental problem with the rhetoric of people like McConnell (beyond the fact that, ya know, it’s in patent bad faith and designed merely to be repeated by people to say why, of course, reparations are beyond the pale), is that it confuses the issue of “fault” with…

“I think, as a Canadian, we would just never ever think about doing something like that,” 

Actually I think the first rule of soccer is that you aren’t supposed to use your hands

I’m okay with them scoring a pile of goals. Celebrating those goals with more than a fist bump after about 5-0 just means you’re a bit of a dick.

For non-New Yorkers, flying American Airlines is a decent way to simulate what it’s like to depend on MTA for transportation.

If you start your sentence with, “Back in my day...” you better finish it with, “...is not a great indicator of how things should be because we had casual racism and sexism and threw trash out car windows like a bunch of damn idiots.”

arrr ‘tis true, the sight of gold drives many a Pirate mad

Also inspired by Bronson Arroyo was Perez’s 72 mph heater.

It wouldn’t be me, because I wouldn’t be dumb enough to have a bathroom in my house with a window like this. 

Make sure you measure your windows BEFORE you buy the blinds, Alex.

Imagine that, David French of the National Retail Federation is telling us to buy big ticket items. I wonder if there’s ever a time when he would suggest something else.