“In reality, during 2006 and 2007, the two years that Lo Duca played for the New York Mets with Billy Wagner, Joe West was the home plate umpire for a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Mets only once, Billy Wagner did not pitch at all, and the game ended on a home run, not on called strikes.”

Wow, I hadn't heard that about Donald and Donald Jr.

My buddy’s old roommate used to date a guy who looked exactly like Lo Duca to the point where that became his nickname.

I came into this intrigued by what Lo Duca had to say, and I’m no fan of Country Joe, but they did their homework before suing him, and it sure sounds like he’s full of shit. That begs the question of why he made up something that could be easily verified? Attention? Stupid, if so. And now it’s gonna cost him.

This is SOP for Brady and various other NFL luminaries. To question them, however politely you do so, is to attack them.

The next evolution is they allow you to use your own car. That way, nobody yells at you for eating in the car on the way home.  It’s really quite brilliant if you think about it.

And suddenly Brett Kavanaugh is conflicted over who to root for. 

Exactly who I pictured, and then verified with a google search:

“Taubman, a former fantasy baseball expert and investment banker...”

Pfft. If they’re not being chased by roided-up goons, I could care less.

1. There should be more hurricanes.

The problem with this is that reproductive fitness and nutrition don’t tend to dovetail because bad diets don’t kill until middle age, leaving plenty of kids with a dead parent...but “plenty of kids” is the key phrase there.

I’m not saying it’s a bad show, but Friends wasn’t good enough a show to justify this behavior.

The sport’s Olympic debut will be a strange one: Climbers will compete for only three medal spots in a combined classification that includes all three disciplines.

No, there are wave pools that can generate waves for them. Probably the best option since you can’t expect the ocean to always kick out the same level of wave for every run.

““That’s a thing our kids do on the regular basis, you know, they try to change jersey numbers and sometimes don’t let us know,” said Gregory.”

oh yeah, when mass market chains tout their “Fiery ghost pepper” whatever, you can rest assured they simply showed the food a picture of a ghost pepper before serving.

as long as I don’t get a slice with a mushroom, I’ll take my chances.

I love spice.  I just bought a bag of Paqui ghost pepper chips, which includes a code to win a 1 chip challenge.  These are the only chips I think of as legitimately spicy, to the point where I can only have a handful.