… Some days, it rains.
I first read, in no particular order, every word Ernest Hemingway ever published in book form in a one-bedroom apartment in downtown Minneapolis, one block behind the Hennepin County Medical Center. I think I had read For Whom the Bell Tolls, before that, but I plowed through it again, though not with the ferocity with [...]
Well, it looks like old Landslide Romney did it again. Eight fucking votes. It took him four years, somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million and all the SuperPac money a nice Mormon guy can get dropped in his lap like gold plates from heaven, but he finally won the Iowa caucuses, though he stayed [...]
The Yankees have been at this for years. A big bat comes on the free-agent market. They throw gobs of money at the batter. Then they sign another guy and another guy who will hit .280 with 30 home runs. Meanwhile, the Yankees starting rotation hobbles along with rent-a-wrecks. Sometimes those aging veterans have a [...]
But mostly we do it because we feel it’s important, and because we will never concede defeat to those rat bastards at corporate headquarters. – Bobby King, President Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 34070, after Gannett laid off 700 people yesterday
The Athletics. The Orioles. The Nationals. The Rockies. The Blue Jays. These are a few of the teams ranked ahead of the Minnesota Twins by a pair of MLB writers in their power rankings, which moved on the wires Saturday. This is the last time we’ll chat about this. Promise. Let’s get the knocks against [...]
Life’s hard out there for pimps, cable salesmen and beat writers. So we really hate to slag someone for the seemingly minor journalistic offense of self-plagiarism. But this was too good — and by good, we mean bad — to pass up. In case you missed it, the Boston Bruins restored order to the hockey [...]
Slop. That’s how I would characterize the MLB standings and these rankings. Only one team, Philadelphia, has better than a two-game lead in its division. Boston leads New York by two in the American League East. Nobody else leads by more than a game. The Brewers, Braves and Cardinals all have 40 wins. All of [...]
In a nod to what we’re sure will be Rory McIlroy’s Sunday evening, we’re going to take this opportunity to reproduce the greatest list of all time. Dan Jenkins’ 10 Stages of Drunkenness Witty and Charming Rich and Powerful Benevolent Clairvoyant Fuck Dinner Patriotic Crank up the Enola Gay Witty and Charming, Part II Invisible [...]
“In its simplest form, bilateral leg weakness means he had weakness in both legs.” – Twins GM Bill Smith, if that is in fact his real name, in the Strib, on Mauer’s stint on the DL. Thanks for clearing that up, Bill. [H/T to loyal reader Martin]