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Breaking Bad: End Times
Walt, left just over the edge of sanity from the events of last week, is left with too little money, too little leverage and too many people to protect.
Breaking Bad: Crawl Space
Fuckin’ A.
Regarding the "save" statistic
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past 36 hours or so, you know that Mariano Rivera got his 602nd save yesterday. As a former and currently-sometime Yankees fan (they like to win and I like winning), and also having a six degrees of Kevin Bacon association with the Rivera family, this was really cool to follow. This …
Your moment of zen
Perusing the interwebs tonight and saw this. Not sure how to embed a Youtube video here, so you’ll just have to click the link. Hopefully it’s not someone you know. Wonder what Al Yellon thought of this one?
SF Dumping Mays? Maybe?
There’s a chance that SF might consider possibly dumping Taylor Mays. Maybe.
Old Style to exit Wrigley Field following 2011 season
(I apologize if I don’t do this right. I didn’t pay attention when Al wrote the post about diary posts, or fan shots, or rim shots or whatever the hell they’re called.) Old Style beer and the Chicago Cubs have been intertwined as long as I can remember. When I was a kid listening to Vinny and Lou call the …
Joe Posnanski on Barry Bonds
One of the best sportswriters, Joe Posnanski, recently got into a debate with Bob Costas about Barry Bonds as one of the best players of all time. As a Bay Area native I followed the Giants and A’s after the whole steroid-fueled home run chase of 1998 (Sammy Sosa being the definitive reason why I’m a Cubs fan, bad choice, …
Anatomy of a Rebound – 2006-2007 vs 2011
One thing that hasn’t been discussed much is how the Cubs went from a similarly unwatchable team in 2006 to the playoffs in 2007. Just like the 2011 Cubs, the 2006 Cubs had some major black holes on their roster, trotted out numerous awful pitchers in the 5th starter spot, and were completely unwatchable and awful. Somehow they managed to …
African-Americans in baseball
This Texas newspaper story has been circulating around the blogosphere for a while so I thought it deserved a bit of attention. I think most everyone is aware that the number of star-quality or even major league-caliber African-American players in MLB has dwindled in recent years. The article does mention how the population of African-Americans in basketball and American …