I alternate between feeling obligated to read more, curious to read more, wondering why I would be so dumb as to ruin my day by reading more, and mostly end up wishing to escape into some Twilight Zone episode like "Walking Distance" (ie the less fatal variant of "A Stop at Willoughby").

I haven't read the main book that purports to validate their cupboardness. I don't find the cupboard scenario implausible on the surface just given the undisputed record. I guess it's just how packed that cupboard actually is. Have I beaten your metaphor to death yet?

I really want to disregard the most salacious scenarios as unlikely, because they usually are, but reading between the lines, it sounds like Lou was thinking that way too. Either way (or anything in between) I admire her independence.

Sincere question 'cause I just have a passing knowledge of her work: in what sense is she a grifter?

The "ears that hear no swears" must not have grown up in New Jersey! They won't even let you graduate high school if you don't demonstrate proficient swearing in at least five common life situations.

Exactly! Do they need THAT much of a delay? For... cussing? Unexpected full frontal nudity? A surprise appearance by a Republican? We must spare the children!

With MLB, TV was behind the app to the point that if I happened to have both going at the same time, I could look at the screen, see Judge stepping into the box, then look down at my phone and say, "Oh, five minutes from now he fouls off two pitches and grounds out 5-3."

PS: I recorded this one after the election but before Sunday night's betrayal by Chuck Schumer and the Bend-Over Gang, not to mention the Clase indictment. If either had happened earlier I probably would have told some Black Sox-type story, that being more consistent w/my mood.

Indeed, you'd think the chapeau would be a big clue. And I get the network constraint. That said, I predict that the way things are trending it's going to be increasingly difficult to do a pure sports show and appear to be at all tethered to reality. It's only going to be more intrusive from here.

Seems to me, and I say this w/some amount of special pleading given the kind of show that I have chosen to do, that there is no law that says a baseball show has to be formulated in a given way. It's your show, this is how you do it, and if it's not for someone, there are many others out there.

On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE.

The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."