For oilpiers wherever he may be: In one of the stories in Don Winslow's new book, Broken, Winslow waxes poetically and ecstatically (although briefly) about Francisco Tatis. It has been quite the 24 hours for that kid. I enjoy watching him nightly, though the bullpen, predicted to be a top 3 in MLB...

I bought some beer, had some smoke, and decided I needed to watch this State of the Union. I get it now. This game show host can sell it to the disproportionally represented crowd he wants. It will be a hard fight against that.

The biggest piece of shit in all of this is Mitch. Friday he walks into the senate chambers with a smirk on his face as he orchestrates the implosion of the rule of law. If there is voter fraud, I hope it is the kind that lets me vote against him multiple times in November. I have a long-running de...

Thats fine. I know you are at least as knowledgable about baseball as me. Probably more. My mother is from Boston, and my first 3 years were there. I knew Yaz before I even knew what baseball was!

The biggest piece of shit in all of this is Mitch. Friday he walks into the senate chambers with a smirk on his face as he orchestrates the implosion of the rule of law. If there is voter fraud, I hope it is the kind that lets me vote against him multiple times in November.

I saw a Grandson interview by Harold Reynolds yesterday. Grandy was asked what he may do. I have an idea. Take Reynolds job! Grandson is the most articulate and charismatic athlete I have ever seen. He should be the new face of MLB Network. I actually thought for a minute you were talking about som...

I saw a Grandson interview by Harold Reynolds yesterday. Grandy was asked what he may do. I have an idea. Take Reynolds job! Grandson is the most articulate and charismatic athlete I have ever seen. He should be the new face of MLB Network.

I know I am a homer regarding the Padres. I moved to SD when I was 7, Padres first year I turned 8. Been going to games in SD, LA, and now Cincy for 51 seasons. I know this sounds like hyperbole, but I watched about 100 Padre games last year. Tatis Jr. may very well be the best player I have ever se...

anyone else watching Succession? Jumped aboard the train for season 2 after Jen bugged me to join her, and now I'm hooked. Such awful people but such a good show. And Shiv is a total eye-magnet. I am indeed saying that she is most lovely but she also has a powerful charisma or presence or whatever ...

This is a well written OpEd by Aaron Sorkin calling on Zuckerberg to take more responsibility in his business. The issues that Mr. Sorkin describes in the letter are identical to many of the reasons why I left Facebook and deleted the App. I haven't regretted my decision at all. https://www.nytimes...

Howie Kendrick is a reason to be happy tonight.

Never mind the first time that the home team has lost the first 6 games of any major sports championship. Is this the first time a team, The Nationals, have worn the same uniform, barring grey pants vs white pants, in any 7 game series? Not even close to their best uni either.

I hope they look at this rule, because it's nonsensical, never called, and yet (could have) affected a very important game. They even got it wrong after review. That wasn't a review. It was a discussion to see if the Nat's had the right to protest the game. At least that is the company line. Torre ...

Funniest baseball tweet I have ever seen. Kate Upton schooling the public that Turner was out of the running lane and that is the rules. What Turner did is done every day. The ridiculous part of that call was his foot appeared to be on first base before the ball arrived, and his LEFT foot hit the ba...

Watched the second season of The Kominskiy Method this weekend. Thought it was better than season one. It seemed to have more Alan Arkin and less acting class, which is good to me. The biggest shock was Paul Reiser. It took me a minute to figure out that was him. He is doing a Mad About You reunion,...

I love that Kurt Suzuki is getting some limelight in the media. He is an above journeyman catcher, probably in the top 30% of 21st century catchers, but has been pretty low profile his whole career. I wonder how many people realized last night after his post game interview he is American? His first ...

anyone else watching Succession? Jumped aboard the train for season 2 after Jen bugged me to join her, and now I'm hooked. Such awful people but such a good show. And Shiv is a total eye-magnet. I am indeed saying that she is most lovely but she also has a powerful charisma or presence or whatever ...

from Janet Bean's facebook: We were faced with a thousand men in ball caps and cargo shorts while Freakwater played before the Drive By Truckers in Louisville on Saturday. I must say they were well enough behaved and they seemed to like us. Who knew! I must admit I was a little concerned when I saw...

Mr B. wrote So it now looks like we aren't gonna make the Louisville show -- our friends band is no longer opening due to an illness and we have some stuff going on in Chicago that weekend, including a late-night Lucero show the night before. Enjoy, and hopefully I'll get a chance to buy you a beer ...

https://i.imgur.com/YX6NDCq.jpg Digging this so far, though it's too soon to make any sort of decisive review. Most recent episode had a phrase that would make for an absolutely tremendous band name: Aunt Tiffany's Mouth Also, learned from the same episode that you can buy Jesus but you can't put h...

It has been almost 3 months since David Ortiz was shot. It was through his stomach. We have not heard anything personal about his recovery. That is not good.I can not find any recent updates. So sad. What a great guy, and one of the top faces of baseball, retired or active.

Oilpiers wrote I fully get that your default response to anything I post is to disagree with me , but being juvenile for a weekend is no excuse for this visual train wreck. Imagine fans in LA or SD getting a chance to see Yanks or Sox without traveling and seeing these horrors. It makes zero sense i...

WTF is wrong with MLB? Those black and white uniforms are ridiculous. What could possibly motivate them to do it, or think it has any redeeming quality? This whole nickname shit is stupid also. Is it timed with the Little League World Series or something, because it is pretty juvenile. It’s grown m...

WTF is wrong with MLB? Those black and white uniforms are ridiculous. What could possibly motivate them to do it, or think it has any redeeming quality? This whole nickname shit is stupid also. Is it timed with the Little League World Series or something, because it is pretty juvenile.

Dahlia Lithwick says it's worse than that: It is indeed worse than what I wrote, much worse. My post was made BEFORE the more recent comments that Ms. Lithwick is responding to. His earlier comments were bad because Trump used the foreign policy of the United States to purse his own personal intere...

Saw episode one of this today. Looks like one of the better Showtime shows in a long time. Alexander Skarsgard is exceptional. Couldn't even tell it was him, he was so quirky and goofy.

The root cause isn't access to guns, it's angry people. Making it harder to get these guns will help, but it won't make the problem go away. A true solution addresses the mountain of angry, hopeless, hate filled people as well as making it harder for them to access death tools. No doubt there's a c...

The thing about the mental health response isn’t that it’s wrong so much as the people who parrot it aren’t actually willing to take meaningful action to increase access to mental health care. I worked on a County Mental Health Crisis Team for 26 years. I evaluated psych patients in the field, most...

Less than 24 hours left to the deadline. I am happy, not only it is slow on the trading blocks, but there is no 31 day grace period of waivers this year. I never liked the mad dash to add to your playoff bound team by loading up on weak teams better, soon to be free agents. I am hoping my team, SD,...

Less than 24 hours left to the deadline. I am happy, not only it is slow on the trading blocks, but there is no 31 day grace period of waivers this year. I never liked the mad dash to add to your playoff bound team by loading up on weak teams better, soon to be free agents. I am hoping my team, SD, ...