Owen Good's discussions

I was speaking mainly in jest but I wasn’t off course by much. Fernando was a nonpresence for most of that year. You’re right about Belcher. Scioscia had a big HR in the NLCS but his contributions were more unseen. Mike Marshall whiffed at everything. Sax was pretty alright though. Read more

Alfredo Griffin was shortstop on the 1988 Dodgers, which was basically 23 replacement players, Gibson and Hershiser. Read more

The reason for the Whalers’ popularity is the same reason some people have an affinity for life on Mars, Elvis or D.B. Cooper being alive, the St. Louis Browns, the USFL, or any backup quarterback. The dead, dying, defunct or what-could-have-been is always better than what actually is because you can just make up how… Read more

It was like reading someone who has a nose cold. Read more

I would love it if my community college offered Remedial Spy Read more

If Mark Emmert’s job is to be the fall guy, then that’s his problem, and he can take the fall. Read more

I agree, but I think the Hall administration itself has something to do with this, too, hence the creation of a PED era committee, which is probably gonna want some kind of contrition as well. (This is pure speculation of what may happen in the future. I don’t have any evidence they’re gonna do that, of course) Read more

It just feels to me like the HOF is doing what it can to hold the line on these guys getting in as a BBWAA selection — which, let’s be real, is a higher tier of membership than making it as a committee selection after going off the ballot. At some point they will have to face this and I think it will result in some… Read more

Man, Charles Krauthammer really let himself go Read more

This is the favorite thing I have on this earth, and Rocky Marciano give me that. You know what it was, it was his cufflink. And it’s gonna be like an angel on your shoulder. And if you ever get knocked to the ground by a steel beam in a SEPTA station, you’re gonna hear it whisperin’ to ya: GET UP YOU SON OF A BITCH.… Read more

Way to make it about you. Read more

Say it loud! I pee in the sink and I’m proud. Read more

GUILTY AS CHARGED Read more

No way, dude, you gotta put your foot down and claim that sink. That ain’t right, man. But +1 for pissing in the kitchen sink. Ain’t no health inspector coming round here Read more

Winner. +1 Read more

+1 for “I enjoy our talks.” Read more

Yeah, the john was downstairs. It was a weird apartment. Look, I’m an inveterate sink-pisser. I’d do it when my brother was peeing in the john on school mornings before his shower (why he didn’t just piss in the shower, dunno). And hell, I pee in the sink of my current bathroom which is right inside my bedroom. In my… Read more

Oh wait, now the memories are coming back. Read more

Not a bad place to barf, but it’s my best barf story.

New Year’s 1997 (1998): Watched the Fiesta Bowl and ate prime rib and drank a lot at a very nice restaurant near my home in rural upstate New York. Walked home. My apartment had been the drafting studio of an architect, which was now leased out by his widow (a very… Read more