I know Randy Marsh has a tight strike zone and everything, but belt-high pitches right down the middle of the plate do tend to be called strikes. Please return to the dugout, where a nice cooler of shut the fuck up awaits. Love, Scott
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I'm resigned to seeing the nose hairs of everybody in both dugouts between pitches, but when a pickoff throw is made would you consider switching away from the close-up angle.
The Poor Man on Imperial Hubris: The longest Tacitus post ever. Half right, half wrong, but mostly concerned with stridently asserting the author's own moral superiority to anyone at a higher.
Game 5 of the ALCS had an 18.4 rating. This was higher than NBC and ABC combined--and ABC was showing Monday night football. Not something that's gotten much attention. Whenever a weak MNF games beats a baseball playoff game, however, we're treated to any number...
How to put Schilling, Game 6, into historical perspective? The referents aren't Koufax in 1965, Beckett last year, like that; he was outstanding, but it's not about dominance per se..
I missed the bad calls last night, but let's all give props to the crew for two gutsy and absolutely correct reversals. I also give grudging respect for the canny.
Since I was (justly) hard on the umpires yesterday, I must note that they got their two egregious blown calls tonight correct, which is all you can ask. Memo to Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez: why don't you pour yourself a nice hot cup of...
I had intended to blog about Jim DeMint's ridiculous dodging of questions about the implications of his abortion position on Press the Meat, but fortunately Atrios nails it. He brings up another.
Yessssssssssssh. Particularly appropriate given the previous two atbats, which culminated in an awful third strike call, and then a blown call on a stolen base that even the late Ray.
Tucker should know that he's not going to win this one. . . ``I thought that he looked ridiculous,'' Carlson said in an interview Monday, ``and I think the tape makes that clear.'' Carlson said Stewart continued lecturing the ``Crossfire'' crew after the show went off...
I just received an email from a reader and friend who has a PhD in bioengineering, focusing on biowarfare defense. She's thinking about the flu vaccine issue. Frankly, I have.
In perusing recent excellent posts at Alas, A Blog and Body and Soul on abortion rates and presidencies, a thought occurs to me. If we were to take the view that abortion.