Yes, life is fraught with peril.

Why not? The guy is counting on low population density and relative isolation to incubate his kommunity. If anything, perhaps people should get together in large groups & go gawk, treating it like a touristy, nazi-wannabe freak-show version of Wall Drug. "Honey, look! I can't believe people live like this!"

[sniff, sniff] I don't know how, and I certainly don't care why, but this stinks like

In keeping with the magnitude by which the Cardinals are normally overlooked by the rest of the league, I'd hope that Deadspin would refrain from promoting this post to the top.

I normally hate memes. Pictures, GIFs, you name it. But this... this doesn't get used enough.

Append (1) assaulted Royals first base coach.

SI, that was it, holy crap:

McMahon is pretty well known for that sort of thing: normally withdrawn, huge asshole when he interacts with anyone. There was an article/interview a few years back connecting his behavior with all the concussions he took from "just throw[ing] [his] body all over the field," as well as a quote that amounted to…

As soon as the video ends, this guy gets immediately smoked by a suddenly-materialized Christopher Lambert.

Wow, can't believe I'm only seeing this now. Very well done!

Great work, extremely interesting. What's the next step? (assuming there's a plan to either publish all the data, or at least use it in some other capacity)

Awesome, I'd make the drive. I'll look those up.

This is an excellent tip. For the people reading this from Chicago, I recommend Grundy County Speedway, only an hour outside of the city:

Yes, excellent, totally agree. Sort of topical too; the Sox immediately come to mind when discussing opposition to pre-recorded stadium music:

yep.

Oh man...

"+1, but careful dude."

He's got a lot of heart, but he'll never win a Steve Nash's annual charity soccer championship without Rose.

Great pic.