This is why dramaturgs are so important in theater — so that when a director gets a clever-clever idea that has no grounding in the text itself, there’s another voice telling him (usually him) no.

Yerrrrrr gorddammit them yellows gotta call their country by the name good white folks decided to call it in the 19th century, by gum. None of this revisionim horsedooky about how “myanma” has always been the name of the country in the written Burmese language! Them yellows wanna confuse us good white folks just like…

Praise Be to Jack Frost!

This is a good place to point out that Boban Marjanovic, the Spurs’ big-eared giant and third-string center, is currently posting an absolutely INSANE per-36 of 32/21. Granted that’s in garbage time, but dude could be another ridiculous Spursy find.

+1 Kidney Donation From His Brother

Here’s my weekly reminder:

But.. but... she has such a progressive, hyphenated surname?

Chris Stapleton’s album is one of the best, country or no, of the year. He’s gotten little if any play on mainstream country radio, so it’s great to see him get recognition from his peers and a wider audience for country that wouldn’t have been out of place next to a Waylon Jennings album in the 70s.

I like that Kansas City has adopted some of that good chip-on-your-shoulder sore-winner grit their cross-state pals the Cardinals radiate. Next they’ll be doing cutesy bullshit like calling their fans The Royal We.

Also, this game was a blast for me to watch because I’m a huge Yusmeiro Petit fan and think he should be a rotation pitcher rather than a long reliever, and it’s always great to see him shine.

I’m also a Giants fan, and as much as I feared Storen, I almost jumped out of my seat with excitement when Williams pulled Zimmerman, who had basically been close to unhittable all night. But yeah, there’s a lot of second-guessing surrounding these sorts of managerial decisions. A lot of it comes down to gut instinct.*

Except that’s the sort of conventional wisdom that boned the Nationals in the NLCS last year — Williams pulled an on-fire Jordan Zimmerman for walking Joe Panik, put in Drew Storen, and watched Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval make hits that drove Panik in.

Exactly. I think back to Matt Williams pulling Jordan Zimmerman last year in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the NLCS. Zimmerman walked Joe Panik with two outs in the ninth, and so Williams, not wanting to put his pitcher in the stretch, takes him out and puts their closer Drew Storen in. Sandoval drives in Panik to tie…

The flyover-country persecution complex can weather all storms, positive or negative. Kansas City will soon drift back into its safe cultural obscurity as the home of the nation’s fourth or fifth best regional barbecue tradition.

At one point during the eighth inning, Harold Reynolds started musing stupidly about how comparable Harvey’s performance was in this game to Madison Bumgarner’s during the postseason last year, as though Harvey’s quality pitching over 102 throws compares to continual dominance stretched over seven plate appearances,…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

You can make the case for 2014, where Griffin and Paul finished 3rd and 7th in the voting. Probably split each other’s votes, to an extent.

Except that the guy who beat him for MVP that year was the the star of the team that did win in that first-round, with monster performances in the 2nd, 4th and 6th games of that series.

On a rooftop in Gotham City in the video game Batman Arkham Knight, I had to beat up six ninjas without getting hit. It took me 46 attempts, one after the other, during one frustrating hour.