It’s almost like Jari Kurri and Peter Forsberg never existed.

And they own 2/3 of the stations that broadcast to my little blue island in a sea of red. Charming.

Hrm, cites anecdotes from ancient history to hand-wave actual, current-day events. Clearly, America is being made great again.

You’re not wrong, but the examples cited are slow-burning and explore the issues in a thoughtful, nuanced approach, the old “if you prick me, don’t I bleed?” treatment.

Blazing Saddles was a direct “fuck you” to an alarming majority of its contemporary audience. It was the prefect vehicle for the painful absurdity of…

Birdcage is an excellent analog, but even that was saccharine in its way.

Dude was clearly out by a foot, not that anyone watching that broadcast could tell.

Maybe he wasn’t such a good guy with a gun as he’d like to believe.

Yeah, no. Call me when “the sheriff’s a faggot” movie comes out.

There’s a whole write-up about that. If you doubt its status, please scan the cosplay pictures of every (you name it) Con since 1988.

Blazing Saddles, though?

Oh I know, but now that they’ve won something, there are a lot more theoretical Cub fans out there, and my touchiness on the subject is kind of an extension of the semantic divide between “Cub fans” and “Wrigley Field fans.” In my mania to distance myself from those people, I may have protested too much.   

Hey, you figured it out. Probably has nothing to do with the hundreds of thousands of families who grew up as Cub fans stretching back to when the franchise was founded in the 1870s - when the country consisted of just 37 States - and then were able to follow them via radio and later TV when they spread out from the…

Nice results, but Houston’s 4-3 defense has no shot if JJ Watt’s leg doesn’t come around.

I went with 5 through 5 innings, and figured they would continue that pace for the next 1453 innings. They’ve fallen off dramatically since then, and are only tracking to hit 1093. That said, Matt Davidson should finish the season with 486 HR, which might bolster his HoF resume.

As I type this, the White Sox are currently on pace to have 1458 HR on the season as a team, which would beat the current record by nearly 1200. Sure, they could cool down a little, but hard to argue with the stats!

I’m a Cub fan by trade, but I think the White Sox are going to surprise a lot of people before the end of this season. They’ve got more talent than they know what to do with, and no one is expecting anything out of them whatsoever.

Yeah, they kind of went from interesting to droning in a heartbeat.

+1 Magical Kinja

Loyal, and miserably effective. In terms of people in this administration performing the task they are required to do, she may be the gold standard.

“Destiny’s got her hands WAY up in our puppets!”