I asked Scocca to give his rankings and he refused, saying “this is like asking a Baseball Prospectus guy to help out with the All-Star fan balloting.” Read more

I had pretty chalk takes: Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts at 10, The Boondocks, Krazy Kat, The Far Side, and Bloom County at 9. My strongest take is probably that Mallard Fillmore is the single worst strip of all time (it didn’t get enough votes to place). Read more

Some names thrown out: Steve Trachsel, Paul Maholm, Omar Daal, Gil Meche, Jon Niese, Bruce Chen, Jon Lieber, late era Barry Zito and Jeff Samardzija, Mike Maroth, Kip Wells, Boof Bonser, Doug Davis. Read more

Rick Ankiel’s stuff is off the chart Read more

McDonald’s has been selling this in Maine in the summer for years, and they are awesome. Lobster, bun, lettuce, mayo for, like $5. On trips to ME, my Dad would eat them three times a day. As long as they stick to the very very basics, it’s all good.
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“Write on Monday what everyone else will think to write on Friday” -Whitlock Read more

I’ll +1 Lightning Bolt. Read more

Natrone Means Read more

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they can only dream of being rubbed all over a body Read more

Damn, I'll issue a correction. Read more

I don't think I was ever more pissed about a play in sports than when Albert Belle hit a home run in the 11th inning against the Red Sox in game 1 of the 1995 ALDS. I stayed up on a school night through two rain delays for a game that went 11 innings, only to see the Red Sox take the lead top 11 and lose it bottom 11… Read more

I just stumbled on this. I know I'm 2 + years since anybody commented. Anyway: I met Tony Siragusa at a golf tournament and directly asked him if he fell on Rich Gannon's shoulder on purpose. He said, "Of course I did. You have a chance to take a guy like that out, you take him out." Then he walked away. It… Read more

I thought this piece was pretty good. Read more

Have had one game end like that. Worth all 6 hours of play. Read more

I beat my father in law and teenage sister in law with the slum lord strategy this Christmas while they were patiently trying to build out yellow and green. It was glorious. Read more

Ah, the Browns + Light Blues + Hotels strategy, also known as the Slum Lord. I've won many a game that way. Read more

1992. One of numerous soccer fields on the local college's grounds. I reach into the net to retrieve the ball after the opposing team scored (but not my fault, we didn't have goalies) and I got my hair tie tangled in the net. The coaches had to come free me. That's my sporting glory.

So, your definition of so-called clickbait is giving readers actual written sports content that they will enjoy, such that they will eagerly read it and share it with other people? Again, my definition of clickbait — and I think the one the vast, vast majority of everyone would agree with — requires that there be… Read more