Ted Berg

If your kids' school's Spirit Week includes a "Plaid Day," don't forget to play the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "Bad in Plaid" to hype them up for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Cc...

Wait a minute, hold on: Pooper Cratt

Nothing stirs the senses quite like autumn in New York. The crisp air gently rustling newly reddened leaves in Central Park, the warm aroma of a pumpkin spice latte spilled on a subway seat, the rumbling moan of a million Yankees fans learning that Boone and Cashman will be back for another season.

That's not Tyler Glasnow, that's the lecherous TA from my junior year poetry seminar

wow what a touching and inspiring story that could literally only happen in america 🇺🇸🦅

If the Dodgers were cool they’d take a dive on behalf of the players union.

When did people switch from saying "I appreciate it" to "I appreciate you?" I don't buy it.

There should be a moat separating Yankee fans from the playing field, with alligators and everything. Also little individual moats around every Yankee fan, but those would be too small for alligators. Maybe you use caimans.

I grew up with older siblings in the VHS era. If we rented a movie, we were committed to it, even if it was The Omen and I was 8 years old. I have not seen it again in the past 37 years but I still get chills about the photographer taking an accidental selfie and realizing he’d soon be decapitated.

It appears AI has come to the kids' lunchbox joke space

they had sex

So does the U.S. Secretary of Defense not get tested for cocaine? Seems like, if there was any job in the world that merited drug-testing, it’d be, you know, U.S. Secretary of Defense. I got drug-tested to edit a damn sports website.

Oh are we talking about professional mishaps involving coffee etiquette

I have no strongly worded take on the Mets’ managerial situation!

Loving the less-online lifestyle. I still haven’t entirely figured out who Hasan Piker is.

Shout out to my 3rd grade classmate Bobby, whose precocious skill in song parody has softened the blow of 37 years’ worth of being occasionally subjected to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Thirty-seven years, and every time, I sing, “I didn’t fart, you liar,” and the horror abates.

@thesamedevice.bsky.social verify me

Also the Angels and Padres just sold for $4 billion apiece so any owner crying poverty should just sell the team for more money than most of us could ever really conceive of.

I was definitely aware of Marvell Wynne as a kid, but not old enough to understand his as a once-in-a-lifetime caliber baseball name.

I just dramatically quit my building’s WhatsApp group in solidarity with the super, but not before I dropped a whole lot of shame on the entitled fucks talking shit about him. I am riding on the highest horse right now and have never felt more alive.

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is having a bunch of dudes with whom you can communicate exclusively in quotes from “The Goat” sketch off Adam Sandler’s 1996 album, What the Hell Happened to Me? #havegoodmoshpitting #goodnightoldman #goooooodnight

I have a lifelong thing where I don’t sleep well unless I read fiction before bed. As a kid I especially loved the Chronicles of Narnia, and the way those kids are transported into a different, more magical world feels parallel to the experience of reading for me.

“Does whiskey count as beer?” “Everything’s coming up Milhouse!” “The frogurt is also cursed.” “20 dollars!? I wanted a peanut.” “Videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we’ve ever had!”

There is no “trans invasion” of the WNBA—that simply doesn’t exist. What does exist, however, is the ongoing, relentless attack on trans kids and trans people in all parts of life. https://bit.ly/4ggUyGp

Standard issue street soldier

Ok but what about people who still have a pair of Ray Bans they got with a vision insurance credit in like 2014 and have otherwise never kept a pair of sunglasses for more than like three weeks? My sunglasses aren’t perving on anyone, they’re a triumph of frugality over lack of executive function.

Pneumonia w/penicillin allergy 1984 Boogey-boarding during a hurricane 1993 Stuff I shouldn’t have lit on fire 1995-2004 Jerry Manuel’s faith in Guillermo Mora 2007 NYC parks truck 2021 Intestinal blockage 2022

Did someone TikTok Jamiroquai or something? The number of times I’ve heard Jamiroquai in the past week is virtual insanity.

Bunch of people on the ferry taking photos of the Long Island City skyline. That whole skyline exists so people can look at the other, much more impressive skyline, which is right across the river and also very much visible from this boat.

What do New Yorkers think about Mamdani's plan to tax the wealthy? To find out, I'm reporting live from Westhampton Country Club

Jack Reacher has got the brains and the braun, but what he doesn’t have is access to baseball-reference.com.

Shout out to Chappel Roan’s guitar player for bringing back the deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle guitar solo