Folks, anyone with a sob story asking you for money is someone who owes someone else some sort of drug/blood money.

At risk of losing my stream, it’s MLB dot com’s free game of the day - I’m listening to the radio broadcast now.

This is a mind-boggling question - as an Oakland A’s fan, I can’t imagine how many things wouldn’t happen at the Coliseum, if put in this fan-less game situation. We already don’t get enough staff/concessions/metal detector gatekeepers for weeknight games. I imagine this being Lew Wolff’s utopian dream game.

I like to make ones out of free wavs on the interwebz, one of favorites is a Groucho Marx quote, if I remember correctly, from A Day At The Races:

“There’s something funny going on in my pants, but I just can’t seem to locate it”

This is a ~$25 Camillus diver-style knife, with marlinspike. Prior to this I carried a Spyderco, a few different CRKTs... I still have a folding knife for every day of the week, but this cheapo is now my EDC. While my job doesn’t require a whole lot of actual cutting - I’m mostly opening envelopes, cutting loose…

Great review - I haven’t heard this yet, but am looking forward to it. I’m a big DeJohnette fan, and am just pleasantly surprised that there is a jazz album review on a Kinja site! Would love this to be a more regular feature, maybe a la “Jazz for the Beginner” to keep it broadly appealing, but also smart enough to…

I am a drummer for bands in the CA Bay Area, and go into North Beach part of San Francisco about every-other-month. The one time (recently too) I screwed up and parked in a tow zone - imagine leaving the club late at night, with a carload worth of gear, only to find your car gone. I catch a cab to the tow truck place,…

I used to date a girl who was from upstate NY, and she taught me a word for this type of thing that comes in pretty handy fairly regularly these days: “New Englandland.”

There's a line that goes, "Never in the history of the game has the rules ever been adjusted to benefit the pitcher." Now I gotta go remember where I read it.

Maybe if you're British. Maybe.

The irony is that the suit, which first popped up in August 2013, was initiated not by Nona, Frankie, and Marvin Gaye III, who own their father's copyrights, but by the "Blurred Lines" songwriters—including T.I., whose guest verse escaped legal consequences—as a sort of preemptive defensive strike against the Gaye…

or the efficiency of scale the Red Sox or New York Yankees can sometimes employ in turning small-market tactics loose with big-market ruthlessness (and margin for error)

I'm dating myself, but Craigslist is often blamed for the demise of newspapers, since they posted classified ads for free that newspapers used to charge money for, largely subsidizing the menial subscription fees.

Hmmmm, I understand the impetus of this rant, but I think if you started talking about sunglasses or maybe even 'where men carry their smartphones' then you start up the slippery slope.

As a fan of the Raiders since their return to Oakland, the time that sticks in my head was the firing of Tom Cable in favor of Hue Jackson, right before Al Davis passed away. Bay area talk radio has been discussing coaching options for days now, but the one name not being mentioned is Tom Cable; he took a terrible…

You know how in science fiction, many of the ideas and technologies represented by what authors thought the future might be like are now coming to fruition, like touchscreen tricorders, walkie talkie wristwatches, and 3D-printing replicators?

Lebron: "Hey - did the tag get cut out of my gift to Will? No? Let me get that taken care of."

As an Oakland fan, it has not been an easy last dozen years or so. When the Bay teams battle, under these conditions, they are playing for bragging rights. Social media amplifies that, yeah but hey - we take what we can get in silver & black around here. Every now and then a little light shines through the muck.

Damn, even the written synopsis is LOL funny. Gotta see that one.

Huh. While Google seems to corroborate your account, I coulda sworn I saw Lennon say it in a press conference myself. B&W footage. Possibly well after Beatles broke up.