Why would the Royals resort to this?

So the Royals are just going to keep throwing at his head even after he apologized and they threw at him once? What a terrible organization.

Fuck the Royals. Their response here is the equivalent of being cut off in traffic and responding by chasing the guy for a couple miles and trying to run him off the road.

I was visiting from Houston, and had a prior engagement I had to attend. So I left around the third inning.

Appropriate, since “not pleasurable, but consistent” has been the Cubs’ motto for the last 100 years.

I've been calling them the Disney team since the 94, same with that hockey team they have

A great read, of course, as all the Stacks pieces are. But it's also interesting to see the lasting influence of a lot of these sort of peripheral players in the story. Al Fleishman, for example, founded Fleishman-Hilliard, which was one of the largest PR firms in the country. Curt Lohr eventually became the owner of…

Related, btw: STL city and county DO invest considerable tax dollars in providing cultural and artistic amenities—zoo, art museum, botanical garden—to the public for no or extremely low admission fees, and have done so for a century. So, your case in point, I guess.

Actually once it is done it will be very nice. It won't be very nice this year though. And of course, you do the Deadspin thing by labeling them "douche-bros" and acting all SHOCKED that owners are trying to increase revenue. Believe me, most Cub fans I know are absolutely fine with this project - that it is time…

1. Saint Louis Demographic, African American By Census Tract. The population was about 49.2% African American, 43.9% White (42.2% Non-Hispanic White), 2.9% Asian, 0.3% Native American/Alaska Native, and 2.4% reporting two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.5% of the population.

I do have a fondness for my hometown, but I get that others don't. Not a big deal, I don't like things too.

There's a weird Stockholm Syndrome thing that goes on with St. Louis style pizza, and Imo's in particular. I grew up in STL, and I've lived plenty of other places with better pizza - specifically New York and Naples (Not Chicago though, fuck deep dish. If I wanted tomato soup I'd just order fucking tomato soup). All…

No, it wasn't.

I agree. It's time for him to make a switch

He should be ready to go next year since he didn't take a beating last year.

I'm sure LA will definitely support two franchises, that's worked well in the past

What the hell are you talking about? One of the greatest female dancers in history was white: