“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
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Let me say right up top that this is a pretty arbitrary list; not every chewy name in baseball history made the cut. Generally speaking, I included names 1) longer than ten letters, and names …
Reader Karen tipped me to the fact that I’m nominated for the Hot Blogger Calendar. So is Ann Coulter, though, so: grain of salt. Thanks to the nominating party for the compliment, …
Maybe, back in 1980, Dressed To Kill got over via shock value.Almost 30 years later, in a world that’s more savvy about trans issues, the “twist,” such as it is, doesn’t do much to hide …
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Strawberry vs. pistachio. This is a hard one for me, actually, because I really like both flavors. Hell, I’ll even have them together in a …
The Bridge is sporting a 70% “fresh” on the Tomato-meter as of this writing, but the 30% who dislike it do so with a virtuous dudgeon. “This could be the most morally loathsome film ever …
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Cookie dough vs. black raspberry/Oregon blackberry. My bias here is obvious — thanks to my mom’s quart-a-week habit back in the winter of ’73, when you …
It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …
Dear Sars,
You’ve helped me with some Procrastination Issues that I wrote about, about two years ago — thank you very much. I have another issue that I hope you can deal with better than I…
‘Cause …
Starting Position Players
C Bob “Red” Kinsella
As far as I can tell, Kinsella never even put on the tools of ignorance in the majestic total of four games he played for the New York Giants. Why …