Let’s check in with Bill Mitchell: Read more
There you go! Read more
Is it? Best hitter in the league, and he’s making $22 million this coming year, then $25 million for six years after that. Qualifying offer is $17 million right now! Inflation is an amazing thing in baseball, and it’s not like Votto’s a bad bet to keep hitting for the next five years. I actually wonder if the Red Sox… Read more
Fowler’s a hard one to figure. Wouldn’t really usually love a consistent 2-WAR guy going into his 30s, but he had a legit All-Star year and certainly seems to enjoy being a Cub. I’m sure they’d be ecstatic if he took a qualifying offer, but I don’t really see it. Read more
For me, no, because major-party candidates are the products of a system I believe should be done away with. (I’m in favor of the dissolution of the United States or a transition to a parliamentary system; no I don’t think either of these things will ever happen.) Read more
The assumption here that no one is involved in local causes and views their vote for unaccountable emperor as the height and end of their political engagement is a little much. Read more
That’s probably because he, like many political professionals, couldn’t read a census map. Read more
A bookstore/record store/comic shop that would be called THE OLD MAN CAVE. Read more
If you’re in New York, the vegetable soup at B&H Dairy on Second Ave. just south of St. Mark’s. Read more
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Yeah, all you need is one super-charismatic heavyweight who can fight a little and it will be back. MMA has probably displaced boxing as the bread-and-butter fighting sport, but The Big Fight will be a boxing match for the foreseeable future. Read more
Baseball/basketball/soccer/MMA depending on what the most recent amazing sporting event I watched was; American Ninja Warrior; distance cycling Read more
Touring bicycle with uh a traditional handmade leather and duck cotton English transverse saddlebag, cargo bicycle, trolley/subway, and, when it comes to it, a car. Read more