… 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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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]
The Big Baby Jesus has risen, and will catch Friday against, who else, the Padres. Minnesota was 4-6 when Mauer went on the DL. They proceeded to drop nearly 20 games under before rallying lately to close within a double in the gap of a respectable record. And, of course, we finally got around to [...]
We sat in a narrow concrete block room telling jokes. Wooden benches lined the walls save for a gap in the center the long way for a square black 50 gallon industrial garbage can. Wooden pegs were nailed into a wooden strip four feet above the benches and letter jackets and baggy jeans were hung [...]
The most interesting pitcher in baseball is 4-6 on the season with a 4.67 ERA. The beauty of statistics lies in their confusion, and this man proves it. Numbers that scream mediocrity actually reflect beguiling inconsistency — alternating greatness and incompetence, in this case. On Sunday afternoon, Francisco Liriano treated the world — or at [...]