When McCreesh references Woody Allen, Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner et. al it is because he thinks they are cool and good.

I do not want to defend Mariner's fans, but at least they are not complaining about not winning co-Manager of the Year.

Oh no

West Ham will hold on

I have spent far too much time being a downer “well actually he was in Low A because the weather in Vancouver and also his signing bonus, not to mention his MiLB salary…”

Ill have you know I went to Blue Sky just to see your Treinen tweet

I know everyone gets old, including RPs, but I still can’t believe he is the same guy who had maybe the best relief season since Gagne

From a WPA stand point it would be a better move than many of his the IBBs yesterday

This is why you are the best in the biz

I love this theory

I have been very harsh on John Schneider (bunting, IBBs, bullpen managment), but I also need to say that PH a more contact oriented guy like Lukes for Straw, knowing he would have Barger to replace Davis, was also a very nice move.

We have very good season’s tickets that I resold for a lot of money before going to the game in cheap seats with friends.

I regret not keeping the tickets so I could heckle Marlins Man

But the hysteria around "the mafia" as if Tony Soprano and Michael Corleone hatched this scheme with John Gotti is all a little much.

What's described is pretty low tech and has been around for awhile

Every streamed poker games uses RFID cards. There's no reason you can't use them in a private game and signal the information to players in the game.

Invisible ink + sunglasses or contact lenses is also very low tech.

If you run a game that cheats people, the suckers are not mobbed up guys who will look for violent revenge. There are lots of crooked poker games and very few poker violent crimes. This is not like the movies

However I also would not be shocked if “mafia run” is an FBI exaggeration of an underground game run by people who commit other crimes