Owen Good's discussions

This season has been such a fucking downer, and it feels like every Monday morning the big story is some outrage or injury or disappointment or even a crime. It’s nice to get up on the first Monday of the year and read a story about football that makes me smile. Read more

Yes, Carl’s Jr. is bad, but I thought we were talking about Lotaburger. Read more

Try the SEC! They only have about three names there. It’s like a wedding in eastern Tennessee. Read more

Calling the passage of legislation a “win.” That needs to die forever. These motherfuckers are supposed to be serving us, and yet the dipshit Capitol Hill media always frames passing a bill as what it means to the partisans who created it. Read more

Also “titular.” I see that fucking word in just about everything now. Read more

I hadn’t really thought about it this way but you’re right Read more

I went to college in 1991. My roommate had a Genesis and this was one of the games he played obsessively to its end. I can still remember the chiptune that played when he entered a tavern. I tried playing it when he was out but it was so deep and invested that I just couldn’t get far with it. But man will I remember… Read more

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Arguments over the hall of fame have nothing to do with the player. They’re about someone (or something) else the arguer hates. Toss in the baldfaced generational butthurt (both directions) and you have the most insufferable time of the year for any mildly interested baseball fan.
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Like I always say, any landing that you walk away from without grabbing your rollaboard from a gate checked baggage claim is a good one Read more

Dear Shep’s Mom: Your boy gave me both (2) presents for my inscrutable parents and both gifts passed the “well chosen” test this year for the first time since 2012. I can’t remember the last time I ate so contentedly after the gift opening. My wrapping job still sucked, but you raised a good boy.
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Dear Shep’s Mom: Your boy gave me both (2) presents for my inscrutable parents and both gifts passed the “well…

He got hurt a lot. There was a nagging ankle injury on his front hitting foot. But it’s still speculative that sans injury he’d be in their company — look how long it took for Rice to make the HOF (as one measure). I view him somewhat like Trot Nixon. Definitely a fan favorite, tenure long enough to be beloved. That’s… Read more

I’m pretty sure I’m wearing a braided belt in that picture. I’m definitely wearing docksiders with no socks. I had quite the birth-control look going as an incoming freshman, too. Read more

Career .303 average. Played his entire career for the Red Sox. Not sure how he doesn’t fit in with them. Read more

See, I grew up in the South, so I knew with that Camaro mustache he probably had a twangy high-pitched voice. So when I met him, it didn’t throw me a bit.

Here’s how it went down. I watched batting practice. Tom Brunansky hit the ladder (now removed) on the wall twice. Peter Gammons walked the third base line talking…

I frequently dream of my parents playing with grandchildren I never had. I wake up confused and sad. Then I remember this earth will either burn up before it drowns, or vice versa, and I read things like this, and I fall back into my bed, alone and warm. Read more

Unless this is an all-white league, or an all-black league where players perform in a cage and are shackled when they go to the sidelines, this will fail. Read more

It’s a toboggan, goddammit Read more

The one closet poster I did not have. Read more

Here’s a 1992 guy: “Doctor Death,” Danny Darwin.