Rob Manfred doesn’t want to hear the likes of Mike Trout say it, but this is why you play the game. Sure, catching pop flies is fun, and taking a big secondary lead can be a little bit of a thrill. But the ever present danger of taking a tightly wound ball to the face after a bad hop is what makes baseball the most…

Cold Stone Creamery is an American ice cream parlor chain and Doug Ducey used to be their CEO. While being a CEO is distasteful, being a CEO of an ice cream parlor seems fun. Also tasteful. I can’t claim to know anything about the man, but I wonder why he would stop being a CEO of an ice cream parlor and go into…

LOVED reading Ball Four as a kid. The image of New York Yankees sticking mirrors under hotel doors to maybe catch a glimpse of a naked woman has stuck with me.

I’ve never seen anything blown up so fast in Oklahoma City.
-Mayor David Holt

This is the letter writer:

The real story here is the depressing state of Vrabel’s broken marriage.

If he sews it back on, that’s totally cheating. #inflategate

I assume they are far more chill than the FCC, but wonder if the Australian counterparts have to needlessly censor songs like No Roots from Alice Merton or Root Down from Beastie Boys.  

Australians: HAHA, Mate! “Rooted in Oakland” is like saying, “Fucked in Oakland!” Crickey!
Oaklanders: If we wanted to say that, we’d just say, “Raiders fan.”

*Remembers Liam Hendriks’ days in a MN Twins uniform*

Me: violate me with that scorpion tail, daddy

My wife swears she saw one once on vacation, but I was not there so I can’t confirm it.

Grootslang

Manticore don’t give a fuck.

By the time they pulled over the car the little sod had drunk six of them....

So “racism is fine” a better opinion than “Triscuits suck.” I’m calling the police.

Even the bull turns around like “holy shit, did you guys see that?”

Pizza Zones, RANKED:

that was actually a Nuts Little, fyi

You are only making me more sure of the fact that they would worship me as a God