As a long suffering A’s fan, let me just say that Billy Beane wrote the book on treating players like a stack of pages with some numbers on them.

Ah, memories of 2003 ALDS losers Eric Byrnes and Miguel Tejada. Touch the damn plate already.

#whitepeople

Spoken like a true Marvel comics reader.

Since you both speak English, I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess you are also both white.

re: “probably long-suffering drummer Brad Hargreaves” - I am also a drummer and we were in college at the same time; because of this, we had very little interaction, but if you can find the earliest couple albums from jazz pianist Vijay Iyer (I’m thinking of “Architextures” and one other, which featured trio and…

So, there are way too many former Oakland Athletics pitchers on this list, they must have hit for cycles in interleague games, or after being traded to NL - the glaring one for me being Justin Duchscherer (the player jersey to get if letters-in-last-name was the undervalued market efficiency and Jarrod Saltalamacchia…

Yeah, I love this.

I also forgot to mention that collecting is not unlike hoarding, if you ask my wife. Along with toys, I collect Oakland A’s bobbleheads, folding pocket knives, vintage drumsets, vinyl records, and possibly Vans shoes. I wear them of course, but I think I have a few I haven’t yet.

I’ll agree with you on the “better than a heroin addiction” part, but this I take issue with:

Scott friggin Disick has 9.2m followers on Instagram. ...

Hmmm. I grew up a 70s-80s kid, and my Dad was a stick in the mud if he wasn’t at work. The only place I really remember being dragged was church. My mom put me in all kinds of summer camps - not traditional ones, but an arts camp, or a swimming camp, or a tennis camp. I got to where I got sick of those metered…

Speeding up the video on the 2nd shovel repeat to match the chord progression ... boss level.

This also seems to be regional. I imagine NYC and Boston doing this all the time, but I can happily say that God Bless America only gets sung in Oakland on Memorial Day, 4th of July, and maybe a couple more holidays, but thats it.

100%

...Second:

I got two pretty good stories, first:

That reminds me of one of my favorite Teen Titans GO! sequences:

I can field this one.

I feel like diagonal parking spaces were invented exactly for this reason. There just isn’t a need to back in to a perpendicular-to-the-curb parking spot.