“Yes, Baker’s flaws are very real and very apparent. He doesn’t handle the bullpen well, he has quite regressive views on the use of statistics, and he has underachieved in the playoffs. manage well.“

+1 torn achilles

This is what makes Tom Brady look a complete tit?

You misspelled “Kenny Williams”.

Salt is also where Germans get their iodine from, but it’s deliberately added to their common-or-garden NaCl precisely because there’s no iodine in their water. Drinking water in other parts of Europe, on the other hand, often has nothing (not even fluoride) added, but naturally contains iodine, helping to keep…

Always worth getting your thyroid checked out - both a scan and a blood test - and all the more so if you have a low iodine intake. My company organised an ultrasound scan for us all, and I was diagnosed with a growth on my thyroid. They originally thought it was simply a goiter but - and this is where the blood test…

Sean Casey joins Moises Alou in the “run like you’re wearing orthopaedic shoes” Hall of Fame.

This kind of direct conversion isn’t really how WAR works...

Only Mourinho could complain about not getting the breaks when van Dijk was more or less raped in the penalty area and the referee did nothing, and Mané could legimately claim to have been trodden on in the box, too. As it was, Falcao’s shout probably would have been a penalty had he not gone down before anybody had…

Are you kidding me? A blind man on a galloping horse would be able to identify her as the World’s most obnoxious woman in five seconds flat, let alone two minutes.

It’s not a Krug, it’s a Maß. A Dirndl isn’t a skirt, it’s a dress. And the beer isn’t just German, it’s exclusively Munich-brewed. Apart from that, though, a perfectly-researched article.

Except that Weihenstephaner is brewed in Freising. I was there the other day: great beer, but not the best of München, by definition.

Just as an aside: Ayinger isn’t a name. It means “from Aying”.

Yes: tourists. To be fair, it’s not actually bad, and if you can get a seat in a tent that’s serving Spaten, you’d take that over not getting a seat at all... but if you can drink Augustiner, or Paulaner/Hacker, or even Hofbräu, then that’s what any Münchener would do. I’m heading down there tomorrow, anyway, so I’ll…

What a time to be alive, eh?

Warsteiner is a Pilsener, not an Oktoberfest Bier.

Spaten is the Munich beer nobody in Munich talks about, let alone drinks. Dead last is where it belongs. Ayinger, on the other hand, although it’s not from Munich per se, is indeed fantastic. If you want the best of München, though, the answer is always the same: Augustiner.

Maddon had nothing to do with the last one - the one that got him ejected. You could see it wasn’t deliberate - even the ump didn’t think so, but he’d warned everybody, so they had to go. Besides, there’s no way Maddon sends in Rondon in the top of the ninth, to hit the first batter he faces.

You know that absolutely nobody, outside of Spanish-speaking countries, calls a goal a “golazo”, right?

This is a pretty sensible beginner’s guide to the Nordschleife, and an entertaining read to boot. Good stuff.