Owen Good's discussions

Thank you so much for posting this. I remember that he’d done that but had forgotten the succession of home runs. That last one was just pure theater. And a curtain call on the road is fantastic. Read more

Oh my God. I thought you were doing a Mr. Burns-style riff at the end there, but Cannonball Titcomb is real ... Read more

Agreed. The juxtaposition is irresistible though. Read more

This look

Oh here we fucking go. Let’s get the U.S. News & World Report Top 25 to all chime in here. Read more

Holy shit. I’m slapping the desk, I can’t stand it. Read more

This is not really the same thing but I can’t get it out of my mind, so I gotta share. Back in the spring of 1985 the rodeo came through town and so the Winston-Salem Journal did some feature on what it was like to be a rodeo clown. Front page, lead photo, horizontal shot of some rodeo clown in the mirror, putting on… Read more

This had to be sabotage. I want it to be sabotage. Read more

agreed. fuck that shit, i hate fantasy baseball. Read more

That story about his name is priceless. Read more

“dirt frogs”? What the hell is that? You’d figure we have enough slurs at this point. Read more

I believe I speak for most folks when I say holy shit. Read more

My favorite thing in the world is going to a minor league baseball game and seeing a bunch of Southern Baptists laugh and clap and do the YMCA dance, not knowing at all what that song is about. Read more

If I was the Yankees I would bring out a Japanese-to-Spanish translator and a Spanish-to-English translator and Larry Rothschild for the next mound visit. Read more

This is why it is somewhat ironic he’s transferring to UNC, in the midst of a scandal where it didn’t or couldn’t even provide a credible education as compensation to its players. Read more

I don’t know if I read it correctly but it seems like Pitt acknowledges this bullshit. That said, the existence of the policy and, I guess, the fact other schools respect it, pretty much require a lawsuit to prove it’s bullshit. Sort of like a noncompete agreement. Read more

I know you’re probably PO’d, but it was worth it just to be introduced to the word clownsplaining. Read more

My parents have a home that abuts a wooded creek. It used to be we’d have a tree come down each year. It’s been so infrequent lately that I know it’s ripe for a big one. It’s not scary, just a pain in the ass. Especially because it might be maple and god knows horses are such fragile fucking animals if they eat a leaf… Read more

No. 10: All those god damn flies.