this makes me irrationally angry every time i see it. it's not "the MLB," it's just MLB. you wouldn't say "the Major League Baseball," so don't say "the MLB." the NFL has to do it because there are multiple professional sports "leagues." MLB does not.

"oh no...i 'have' to go visit our friends from Absolem to catch up after the Monktoberfest. on a beautiful fall day. with perfect weather."

genuinely the best part of all of this is that when i went to tell the ten year old about this hilarity, i showed her a picture of Nick Offerman and entirely unprompted she said, "wow, it looks like Payton Tolle!"

as someone who has been a Peter Gammons fan for better than thirty years, i am admittedly biased, but if you like baseball, i can’t see any way you wouldn’t enjoy this. he’s the GOAT, and the stories are incredible.

keith david absolutely rules

happy for all of our friends at oxide, and happy for the industry, frankly. we need more people to take crazy swings like starting a computer company.

ME: what kind of day are we going to have today little bear? 10 YEAR OLD: no more yankees or manny machado in the playoffs, so a good one ME: [tears up]

the key to parenting is the choices you offer. for example, on the way to irish dance lessons: ME: ok little bear, do you want to listen to guardians vs white sox baseball, or history’s mysteries: the lost colony of roanoke? 10 YEAR OLD: hmm...let’s go history. ME: ok, works for me.

this is accurate. pops up in the fight scene in Dazed and Confused, for example.

and also what the specific harms might be

love this and really wish dana farber would pick a weekend for this that wasn't directly after the monktoberfest every year. if there's one thing i would walk on behalf of, it's the jimmy fund.

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conference week as measured by resting heart rate

also learned that, in an effort to sway the results of the game, the ten year old slept in her green sox hat. and that after we lost, she's reluctant to wear it again.

WIFE: i know you're sad the Red Sox lost, but would you be interested in watching non-Red Sox post-season baseball? 10 YEAR OLD: YES! we have to root for whoever's playing the yankees! ME: [tears up]

the weather during the monktoberfest was almost 80, sunny and summer-like. at my annual post-monktoberfest lunch, meanwhile, it’s 60, dark and now spitting rain. poseidon’s back.

to our sponsors, to our speakers, to our vendors, to our staff but most of all to our attendees: thank you. we could not do this without every one of you.