For batting concentration you need the greenies, like the guys back in the 60s and 70s were using!

I mean, Serie A has 20 teams, and the population of Italy is 60 million people. Granted, a lot more of those people are soccer fans, but I think America, with its 322M people, can handle 30 soccer teams.

Notably, this Phillies game is the last regular-season game that Jake Arrieta lost.

Executive summary:

In a world where most people live in soulcrushing poverty — including this boy in Cite Soleil, Haiti — the idea of spending hours of your life trying to improve your score on a fucking video game feels like assholery of the highest degree.

Ladies? How do we feel about this?

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The fifteenth anniversary of this just passed — it was a Spring Training game!

This is off-topic, I know, and happened two days ago, but the Jarret Parker thing is increasingly hard to ignore. Five home runs in three games, including 3HRs/7RBIs yesterday. This moonshot from Friday night, which Jake Arietta called the home run of the year, is just one of the most surreal dingers I’ve ever…

This has actually been my desktop background for the last year or so.

This is a good, interesting, and actually substantive comment on Kinja. What’s wrong with you?

I know it’s Gwyneth, and so the press like to rag on her, but showing up to set with wet hair and no makeup is actually fairly standard practice for professional actresses. It speeds up their time with the hair and makeup department and gets them to set faster.

She woke up every day and went to work forty feet from a room designed to execute 2,000 Jews at a time. She transcribed messages telling the camp to kill more Jews, and sent out other messages asking for more poison gas to be delivered.

The information she was a conduit for was messages from HQ to gas more Jews. She heard these messages in morse code, wrote them down, passed them along, then went home and fed her cat. She worked a few dozen yards away from a room in which Jews were gassed, two-thousand at a time, and on weekends she’d meet up with…

She earned a living doing clerical work thirty feet from a room where Jews were being gassed to death, up to two-thousand at a time.

Man, cars are such a cool thing. The automotive industry is definitely awesome and not at all a necessary evil we put up with in order to function in contemporary society. Vroom-vroom, honk-honk, right?

Yeah, the hilarious, humane and life-affirming Transparent is total tragedy porn. You totally nailed it as though you had never seen it or even read more than five sentences about it.

Storytelling is at its best when we demand absolute and unabating ideological purity from it.