Linda Holmes

I am also surprised how many journalists are willing to interview these folks without really interrogating whether some of them they are entirely well and can meaningfully consent to participating in something like this.

Do I want to know what ridicule they are talking about?

It was a theme song for that show that I for some reason wrote. I am sorry about the search.

Copmom Momcop! I also know this show for exclusively that reason.

See that is not a treat to me, that is way worse.

I’m watching this one. Don’t know if I’ll keep it up. Maybe I’ll keep tabs on my phone and if a game looks good I’ll watch some.

I love the leisureliness of the regular season, and it’s completely absent at this stage.

LOL I hate this game

The entire reason I refuse to care about the postseason that much (and I have said this all season) is that the reason I like baseball is that no one game has to be worried over all that much. And then this is like “well that pitch is a disaster” and that’s not what I’m here for.

The Yankees and Dodgers are the Poochie of the postseason.

I really hope the Phillies and Blue Jays both win just to spite the national announcers who nakedly long for a Yankees-Dodgers World Series.

HARRISON! BADER! Thank you for not exclusively focusing on your art.

Sooooooo close, that long fly ball…

Is this confrontation really at a point where the only option is to grab the guy by the throat?

People like teachers and doctors and nurses are expected to de-escalate tense situations every single day without throwing people on the ground.

Well, I guess they wanted to be explicit about the reference in case anybody missed it.

He sincerely loves the Phanatic, I deeply believe that.

Bryce Harper has a new baby, whose middle name is “Three.” My first thought: I am genuinely surprised it’s not “Phanatic.”

(This is not making fun! His devotion to being a Phillies dad is very charming to me.)

Yeah, fair point. I mean I didn’t even notice, so my opinion would be meaningless even if I had one.

I wonder if they had tech issues with the camera and were using an alt at first. There was a game earlier this year where some kind of tech stuff was going on, and the angle on the CF camera was wrong because they used a backup until they fixed the main one.

Things have gone downhill for the Cubs since that leadoff home run.

This is really well written and confirms my longstanding suspicion that this whole series is just exploitation dressed up in prestige aesthetics.

Todo! I really like that they embraced in those videos their Spanish-speaking guys.

This is great. And they hold that gut-punch to the end and it WORKS.

Exactly. And to laugh at the goofiness of it and debate where it falls on the fun/awkward axes.

I am not invested in her enough to have feelings one way or another, particularly, except that I admit writing this ode strikes me as curious. I have always felt the same way about, say, “Sugar Walls.”

Well, or that somehow it has to do with not wanting women to talk about sex. I assure you that if a straight dude wrote a similar song called, like, “Orchid,” and it was equally like this, I personally would find it just as corny.

Of course she does! It’s also perfectly valid to think it’s a little corny, which is sort of my feeling, without thinking there’s anything *wrong* with it.

I always operate from the assumption that she knows exactly what she’s doing, which is why I may find her swerve here surprising, but I certainly don’t think it’s inadvertent.

Y’all, it is okay to think the “Wood” song is funny. She knows it’s funny! She’s very smart!