Adequate Man is

Nice piece!

This will be one of the thousand or so bullet points in my future Slate column about not watching sports anymore.

I enjoy Frank Caliendo and I'm only moderately ashamed to say so.

That Deadspin story is from January 17th. The linked ESPN story is from January 18th, and stated that he was at the hospital dealing with a serious family emergency. So it's not just surfacing now.

Trent Richarson's child was not born prematurely, or even at all yet.

But we didn't. All we knew then was that he didn't travel for "personal reasons."

I don't know, I think if I were suspended for two games without pay and my reputation was being publicly questioned by my employer, my girlfriend would be throwing some immediate "fuck yous" to that employer all over the press.

Well, we now know what those personal reasons were

Bud Selig?

This. It's up to the claimant to provide evidence for the veracity of a claim, and the claim is "Steroids are bad," not "steroids are no big deal."

io9 reports:

That really clears it up, especially about Coit, thanks!

The black Black Sox.

I mean, he can't even remember how many times to say "those things" in a sentence.

Here come the JoePa truthers!

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I remember pretending to be intensely into something around me so I could make it look like I wasn't dry-humping a stack of chairs, but I haven't done that since I was like 15.

I am Tiger Woods.