How are they not more of a thing?

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Only one of them has to sell shirts to compensate for his non-guaranteed contract and shorter average career, not to mention likely long-term neurological damage.

I made my dad marry my mom

The irony here is so delicious this post could almost be considered Foodspin.

So, just so we are clear here is a quick summary of Tammy Duckworth’s life:

Not if Dan Haren is throwing life at you.

Better than the Falcons and their brief slogan “Weak Dogs Get Drowned”.

Some of his best work has been done while off the ice.

The real problem is why, exactly, is the NFL handing out suspensions for off field criminal activity in the first place, as if they are some stand in judge and jury for when a case slips through the cracks legal system? The problem is that it establishes the totally ludicrous scenario where the NFL and the public have…

Is this sports?

Here’s how I’ll remember Aaron Heilman. During the last season at Shea, a few buddies and I took a Thursday off at the end of the season to take in a Thursday afternoon rain makeup against the Pirates. More importantly, it was the last time we’d all see a game together at the ballpark we grew up in. The Mets had a…

As a Mets fan, I prefer to think of this as the 10th anniversary of Endy Chavez’s catch. Also, fuck Aaron Heilman.

Clarification: Cream soda is good.

That’s nice in theory, but just wait until a bar owner in MA wants to order in some “domestic” CA wine and it has to be shipped through the New Confederacy Tariff Zone.

This. For fuck sake, people are awfully stupid.

*Andrew Johnson

Wasn’t Lincoln (who died a week or so after Lee surrendered). His 10% plan was definitely very lenient, and he would have enforced that. The Radical Republicans took control of Reconstruction after a brief period of Andrew Johnson bumbling his way to sort of following Lincoln’s plan.

April of this year—the beginning of the baseball season—Indians owner Paul Dolan said the team would move away from using the demeaning depiction of a supposed Native American, instead making the block-letter “C” the team’s primary logo.