+1, but it’s at 69 so I didn’t literally +1

Game 4 is Sunday.

How did he go from a 6.41 ERA (!) with 108 K’s at age 32 to a 2.77 ERA with 180 K’s at age 36 with the Cubbies? It’s certainly a head-scratcher.

Great closing paragraph in that SB Nation article you linked to

Lives in the film room studying how the greats did it on MTV’s The Pick Up Artist.

Gets to the bar before everyone to work on his game, and is last to leave.

Indiana likes the scrappy kid, the hard worker, with that grittiness more naturally talented rapists just don’t have.

... because they want to get people with that raw, unformed raping talent and mold it into the Indiana model?

They’re 4 Lombardi Trophies on the table in the first photo and 5 in the second one.

Hernandez learned everything he knew about the Bible from Tim Tebow, which explains why his understanding of it was incomplete.

Totally agree. I don’t think I would even call him again after the 3rd time we did it.

[Puts on flack jacket and shounder pads. Straps on helmet. Puts safety goggles on. Inserts mouth guard. Checks cup. Ties steel toed boots. Looks around. Deep breath.]

In the last 24 hours, the Celtics went down 0-2 to a laughable Bulls team, Aaron Hernandez committed suicide, and Gronk yukked it up with a propaganda minister nobody respects.

Give me a break. If a 35 year old man just learned to tie his own shoes, it might be a good thing, but no one should feel any doubt about giving him shit for it.

As you age, tastes change. I for one have found I no longer like Honey Nut Cheerios either.

And people laughed at me for not dropping him from my fantasy team.

No, because unlike some, I have The Ethnics.

This may not be the time or place, but with Charlie dying from leukemia, it is only fitting. We are currently fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to try and fund the research that will eradicate this horrible disease. We should not still be losing the fight to cancer and if anyone can spare even $1…

Of all the people to hit for multiple cycles in their career (there’s only about 20, and Adrian Beltre is in rarefied air by having hit for three), John Olerud may be the most surprising.

Ron Artest isn’t in the league.