We may never again see anything like the 0-21 opening by the 1988 Orioles, but not scratching home plate in the first three games is a nice start. You can do this, Pads!

Somebody needs to be Putin charge over there to keep this from happening again.

The desert of ... Florida?

Maybe splitting hairs here, but I think a little league inside-the-parker should involve at least two bad throws. That’s kinda the point - grown men throwing the ball around like spazzes.

He pulls that at Augusta and he’ll get the Gary McCord treatment.

Agreed. Even worse is Clark Kellogg doing radio with John Thompson. Just painful. But then, Kellogg doing anything is painful.

The score was right on the screen. Did Ley take some of those UNC classes?

Come on. It was a tying three, not a go-ahead. This isn’t difficult.

Being Raftery means never having to make sense, understand or apologize.

At least we’re done with Bill Raftery for a little while. He’s become a caricature of himself. Why Jenkins taking that shot required “onions,” I’ll never understand. Was he supposed to pass it off or something?

Embrace this. Your life is better for it.

Huckleberry Hound may have been blue, but he never worked it.

The Dark Knight rises*

I giggled.

Texas ain’t nothin’ but steers and profiteers.

As someone who has paid the mouse as a local, you are correct. Sooner or later, The Mick must have his money.

“There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”

Can’t disagree with that, either, I suppose. But you’d have to start guys young.

I don’t disagree that underhand is a better option for guys like Bogut, Shaq and Howard, but if you’re shooting at least 80 percent conventionally, there’s no need to change.

I propose a new NBA rule that if you airball a free throw, your next attempt must be Rick Barry-style.