A couple weeks ago, when we were talking about seasonal beers and all the attendant backlashes and forelashes that come with their increasing popularity, commenter Hamilton Porter made the excellent point that some of the exaggerated hand-wringing stems from the odious cultural trend of "basic-shaming."
Let's not dive too deep into that pit of bullshit, but the general premise is that if there's anything worse than being the sort of hipster trash who drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon just because all the rest of the dirty-haired skinny kids do, it's being one of the lame-ass sheeple who need a calendar to figure out how to navigate the beer cooler.
While I can't condone judging anyone's beer choice too harshly on cultural or aesthetic grounds—I'll s…
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data-mm-id=”_9kouubeks”>Everyone knows that Don Larsen twirled a perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. What very few, including myself, knew before last night is that the legendary performance was aided by a decision to remove the batter's eye in centerfield. Eagle-eyed Keith Olbermann brought this to the world's attention with the help of some archival footage airing on MLB Network. This amazing truth -that the true stunner was not that the Dodgers got no hits but that the Yankees got five, or ANY- is backed up by two photos from the collection of photos I obtained from the widow of a fan who attended. This is pre-game. This is where the Batters’ Eye WASN’T pic.twitter.com/2VUqrMKBSP— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 13, 2020That certainly changes the c…
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data-mm-id=”_onu6ni2f7″>Dak Prescott broke and dislocated his right ankle during the Cowboys game against the Giants last week and is out for the season. The injury came on a designed quarterback draw. Prescott took the snap out of the shotgun, ran up the middle, veered left and tried to stiff-arm Giants cornerback Logan Ryan before being pulled to the ground at the expense of his ankle. NFL Cowboys QB Dak Prescott suffers grusome ankle injury pic.twitter.com/5JEVMke9Qb— #NastyWomen 11.3.2020 Nasty Women will save USA (@FreshSam5) October 11, 2020That kind of play call isn't new for the Cowboys. They often design plays for Prescott to run. Most often, it happens around the goal line (Prescott has 24 rushing touchdowns in his career, including three this year), but the Cowboys wi…
data-mm-id=”_lbebs6mfb”>The Boston Celtics have been hampered by a slew of injuries and positive COVID tests to start the 2020-21 season. Their best starting five have played less than a handful of games together. The team just finished up a West Coast road trip with a loss to the Utah Jazz, going 2-3 in the five games played on the opposite coast. Sitting at 12-11, the season is far from over, but Boston has some things to work out before anyone can start talking about a repeat run to the Eastern Conference Finals. One of those things is Kemba Walker. Walker missed the first chunk of the season to rehab a knee injury that's been bothering him since the latter half of the 2019-20 season. He battled through the pain to give the Celtics a much-needed boost at times during their play…