When great ones go, it might hurt us more than it does them by Bill Simmons (ESPN) Watching Papi flounder now, I’d believe he’s really 36 or 37 (not 33) before I’d believe PEDs are responsible. In a recent game in Minnesota, he couldn’t catch up to an 89 mph fastball. Repeat: 89 mph! That’s …
From an article about the revival of the exclamation mark: “Ellipses confer gravitas on banal thoughts …” I actually agree with this, even though I’m quite often guilty of it. (I probably would’ve used an ellipsis right there, but it wouldn’t have been ironic and instead I’d just be an idiot.)
So, are there any Sox fans who are still complaining about swapping Manny for Bay? Also…
Chuck Todd (NBC Political Director) and Murray Hewitt (Manager of Flight of the Conchords).
My uncle got tickets to yesterday’s game, and the seats were great: up in the State Street Pavilion along third base side, looking down on the field. It was very cool seeing a game from up there, and very cold in the shade on a windy April afternoon. He also let me borrow his zoom …
Man, I really hope Frank isn’t the easter bunny…
Jill was watching this tonight and I had to include it. Funny stuff… If I remember correctly, when disagreement was expressed about [Bush’s] actions when y’all were in power, I believe the response was: “Why do you hate America? Watch what you say. Love it or leave it. Suck on my Truck Nutz.” The Daily …
The latest episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! chronicled the 1996 failed launch of timanderic.com. It ended with an uplifting little song that may come in handy for me someday, to put things back into perspective:
I forgot to post it here, but In The Gnar (a site about BMX, among other things) wrote a nice review of my old `zine/site, eWire. You can read the article here.
And I thought Joe Morgan was bad. Here’s Dustin Pedroia batting with the count 1-yellow and 1-blue: