I largely agree. To me the case boils to: The A.L. is the hitting league, the N.L. is the pitching league. I’d love to know if this perception is actually supported by data (and the N.L. would have to control for pitchers striking out pitchers) but for almost 100 years that’s how the public has viewed the two. So the… Read more
I don’t understand the logic here. We can disagree with the NYT — and I certainly do — about the wisdom of eliminating so much of the copy desk and reassigning the surviving members for whatever so-called strategic purpose they have theorized. But if they are intent upon reorganizing that department it doesn’t really… Read more
My brother and I saved up our paper route money for the beach trip to South Carolina to buy all the god damn fireworks we could (because those fucking rednecks had absolutely no sense of self-preservation). The best was “Plane Drops Parachute by Night,” manufactured in Fushan Quangtun, China. It spiraled up, exploded… Read more