As someone who has trained on that thin strip of land between the freeway and the ocean, let me tell you that I hate that thin strip of land between the freeway and the ocean.

I wouldn’t pay to watch White Sox/A’s now, but 2018 White Sox are going to be interesting, at least. They might average 10 strikeouts a game, they might be on the other side of a no-hit bid or two, but they’ve got a metric shit-ton of prospects already on the roster, and more coming.

(In a tied Game 7 of a playoff series against their most bitter rival, Edmonton’s Steve Smith tried to clear a puck out of his own zone, but inadvertently fired it into his own net, ending the Oiler’s season on his 23rd birthday.)

That howl at the end of Drink Before the War.

Not Dick Valentine?

GW seemed to me to be the kid forced to become CEO of the family business instead of following his dream to be a race car driver. Not a terrible guy, but, not terribly interested in the job everyone expected him to do, and surrounded by terrible people who were more than happy to do the job for him.

“September 2017: Tap Dancing Murderer. And we covered it. We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.”

Lots of communities have terrible-and-dwindling economies, and lots of communities have economies built around noxious-yet-thriving industrial processes.

This was Devine.

ALEX SMITH’S BIG DAY!!!!!!!!!! I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG!!!!!!!

Such as making Bernie a lifelong independent right up until it came time to run for president.

What a dirty trick!

On the one hand, I feel bad because my kids are fluent in spicy language, but on the other, I am proud because their usage is unerringly correct.

Having no allegiance to one or the other, I could have picked up a PS4 but chose the One S on account of it also being a 4K player. A casual buyer probably wouldn’t have noticed, as Microsoft doesn’t do a good job of hyping that feature on their retail packaging.

Yeah, well there’s plenum more where that came from!

+10/100

I don’t even know why he’s DMing her. Everybody knows he’s a catcher.

This last week felt like an eternity.

No shit, like this guy doesn’t perfectly epitomize the kind of jerk you’ll find struggling to get out of a squad car whenever the police arrive. No wonder so many kids get shot in the back by these heroes - no way in hell these blubbery ticks are going to catch them in a footrace.

But I do like the attempt to hint at…

Smart move. I had to listen, just to see how dead-on my “I bet this is the worst shit ever” premonition turned out to be.

That makes sense, since Texas heroically seceded from Mexico to preserve the institution of slavery, or, as it’s known in 2017 “states rights.”