Hernandez 6/17/13 (11:35:01 P.M.): I think I messed up bad, coach. What do I say when the media starts asking the tough questions?

It's pretty reckless of the Cubs to start a skirmish when their manager doesn't even have the sense to give them the platoon advantage.

[4 Americans killed in Benghazi]

I know Hawk Harrelson is a crazy man, but you gotta love him in this clip. His knowing, not-even-surprised "In front of the MLB sign. Dropped." That's the sound of an announcer whose team has lost 10 of their last 12.

I guess you just did.

I remember watching Silver on the court to give the Spurs the Larry O'Brien Trophy, and no one was booing. It's a weird time right now.

YOURE TAEKS SO HOT!

I give it two, maybe three, years, and kids across the country will be rocking these.

I'm proud to live in a "blue" state, though it's red in elections :(

Al Campanis, the Dodgers' GM of that time, who traded Burke because he was gay, had this to say about why there weren't many black managers in baseball then:

"Well, if anyone understands the plight of a once-legendary and widely beloved source of quality entertainment that slowly fragmented and alienated generation after generation of readers until it became a shell of itself, appealing only to a small niche of fans, it's definitely Kinja."

Lasorda really seems like the stereotype for every "older generation" guy. He can't deal with a player being gay, he can't deal with his son being gay, but at the same time he seems to accept them (to a point.) He's sort of like a living monument to a previous step in the evolution of our society.

Tommy Lasorda is a scumbag.

This was an excellent and affecting story, but I must say I stand in awe of the following sentence, which by itself makes the entire super-long piece worth the read:

Great piece of course. I'd also suggest everyone click the link dealing with Glenn Burke's invention of the high five. It references this article and fills in the gaps after this article was written.

Can somebody forward this to Tim Brando? This is why it matters that Jason Collins came out.

A wonderful piece and an excellent reminder that barely one full generation ago, gay men were essentially being exterminated by a disease that was so stigmatized fathers refused to admit it had killed their sons. honestly, for the time, Lasorda's lack of rejection was pretty progressive. And I was truly moved by the…

Night in the city. Every story has a street, every street a story. Hollywood drives by and waves wanly. Tommy points to the photo of Frank in his dank, plush, tiny yet luxurious office: "Sinatra. He understood."

".."I had him for thirty-three years. Thirty-three years is better than nothing, isn't it? If I coulda seen God and God said to me 'I'm going to give you a son for thirty-three years and take him away after thirty-three years,' I'd have said 'Give him to me.'".."

I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but you cannot catch the gay by reading about it...or thinking about it. The more you know.