One of my staff—who had somehow managed to never see a picture of Silver (she’s a casual fan, roots for the Warriors)—watched the awards the other night and finally saw him. She comes rushing to me the next morning, and screams in my doorway, “OH MY GOD, ADAM SILVER LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THOSE CREATURES FROM THE RINGS…

On the topic of the podcasts: JR’s is actually pretty good! It’s fun to hear his views on some of the stuff that happened 20+ years ago, and even about some of the current stuff. Same for Bischoff’s (depending on the topic and whether he can “recall” what happened) and to a lesser extent, Tony Schiavone’s. Prichard’s…

I laugh at this, but uncomfortably, because somewhere, there is an NFL front office guy whose brain actually works this way.

I voted Ramcharger, here, mostly because Broncos (and Bronco IIs) were everywhere where I grew up, and seeing a Ramcharger was like seeing a unicorn.

There’s a lot of things to laugh at, here, but that car isn’t one of them.  That is a sweet, sweet ride.

What’s the optimal number of dogs to have?

Neutral: I think the best answer is probably some sort of stringent MPG requirement (that is enforced!) combined with stronger emissions requirements and quite possibly, a higher tax.

I would like to meet the person who un-ironically wears BMW cuff links.

“Nobody” is the answer we’re looking for, but we’ll also accept “not a fucking soul” and “are you kidding me why are we even asking a question to which ‘nobody’ is the answer?”

“The City That Reads”

Which is mind-boggling, because it’s not like they don’t have the talent on the women’s side of the roster to book something compelling.  

“Crowded and deeply boring creative trough” is an incredible understatement. Even the Women’s division, which was white hot 3 months ago, is just meh.

Too true. I’m sure by the first week of August (at the latest!) I’ll see all manner of pumpkin beers on shelves, but none will be available when October actually hits. Weirdly, though, the marzens don’t hit shelves around here until the last week of September (usually), and that’s if you can find any at all.

This is wholly incorrect.  I recently bought a pickup, and I saw a two-inch increase (to three inches!) after I left the dealer’s lot.

I think cutting Rosenthal probably does buy Davey a little bit of time (?), but I don’t think he makes it into next year.

Schrodinger’s Mets? I can see that.  The Mets are both at--and not at--peak Mets, simultaneously, until such a time as their Mets-ing has been observed, which irrevocably changes the nature of the Mets-ing.

Are we seeing peak Mets, here? I’m just not sure this story can get any Mets-ier.

I feel like WaPo’s description was too conservative.

Can’t have two bad teams doing something right on the same day. The Mets had to fuck up today so the universe could balance itself out.

Do we know, for a fact, this isn’t Kevin Durant?