I heard there’s a pretty fun paper company you can visit.

Contra the many old dingbats involved in baseball, “Players visibly giving a shit about things like hitting cool home runs or the umps getting it wrong” makes the sport better. You know what disgraces the sport? Angel Hernandez’s ongoing employment.

I bet you mean Christina Hendricks, not Christian. Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing this soon. Just knowing it’s not a dud is in itself a relief.

I was in Seattle for a couple of weeks at the start of this season and let me tell you people were confused. 13-2???

An addendum to the bit about cruise control: the thing I have noticed most since becoming a cruise control person is that people who do NOT use cruise control have a weird subconscious tendency to:

Playing with an obvious and vulnerable injury? He’s lucky Marchand is on his team, not the Blues.

One fun thing about mlb.tv is that it gives me the chance to listen to every broadcast team in the majors. Several are notably bad, but now that Hawk Harrelson has been put out to pasture the Pirates are the only team whose broadcasts I absolutely will not watch, because it’s just this shit and blathering about how…

What an idiot, Kenley doesn’t throw a splitter.

This is great! I have to ask - is the title a reference to the famous “Night Climbers of Cambridge”?

I was watching this game and I’m still pretty sure it was technically foul but for once the umpires applied the correct rule, which is “If it looked really cool, that’s good enough.”

I don’t think the Wildlings have any interest in joining the however-many-kingdoms, any more than Jon wants to be their king.

The Night’s Watch has been outnumbered for centuries, so that’s not new. It’s always been a glorified border patrol rendered effective-looking by the fact that the Wildlings mostly don’t give a damn about coming south anyway. It remains in existence because it sounds responsible to have a border patrol, and because as…

Jon Hamm’s John Ham could not be reached for comment.

People keep saying the Night’s Watch doesn’t have a reason to exist anymore, but it has the same purpose it’s always nominally had: keeping the Wildlings on their side of the wall.

I realize this is the hottest of takes but I quite liked it.

Boston/San Jose is going to set a record for fewest penalties called in a Stanley Cup Final. 

Yeah but they’ve got Tim Anderson, who I love, so it could be worse.

I basically survived college on this kind of free-range foraging. Food is food.

It’s fun that the NHL is the kind of league where that meaningless offside call gets reviewed but there’s no option to give McAvoy a major penalty for trying to decapitate another player. 

Conceptually, the division symbol is shorthand for the fraction-like setup in the calculate it! picture, which makes the order of operations pretty clear.