Jon Weisman

Just ordered 30 Double-Doubles to go for Youngest Master Weisman’s baseball team.

Might be a stretch, amazingly.

Well, of course I’m old :)

I brought up Debi Thomas today, and several sports-savvy people had never heard of her. It makes me think that figure skating broadcasts over the years have not done nearly enough to keep her importance alive.

Thanks. Funny, it’s been the opposite experience for me.

No but I did read Ulysses among others.

Oh, same.

I'm reading Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, and I feel like I might as well be reading James Joyce. It's impressive as hell but exhausting, and I feel like I'm understanding like a third of it.

Turn signals are the easiest things in the world to use.

Alpine skiing coverage at the Olympics is the best it has ever been, but the Holy Grail that hasn't been achieved is illustrating how steep the courses are.

Which defensive player should it be?

If the Super Bowl MVP isn’t a defensive player, something will have gone horribly wrong.

Death of a Sports Section The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.

This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
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What has happened at the Washington Post today is grotesque. It's demented. I want to say it's evil. Maybe at the end of the day, you might say "it's just a newspaper." Many things in this world matter more. But it doesn't change another signifier that our world is full of rot.

A Stanford baseball icon.

Catherine O’Hara Dies: Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘SCTV’, ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 71 Catherine O’Hara, the beloved comic actor who launched her extraordinary career as one of the ensemble members of the star-making cast of SCTV before gaining acclaim in such films as Beetlejuice, Home...

This can’t be. I’m floored.

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Yes.

Wilbur Wood, Tom Bradley and Stan Bahnsen combined to start 130 of the White Sox' 162 games in 1972.

The three pitchers accounted for 889 of the 1,385 1/3 innings thrown by the Sox -- 64.1 percent.

Wood threw 1,681 2/3 innings in five seasons from 1971-75 with 99 complete games.

Essential.

And yes, the first story itself is plenty creepy.

How the Arizona Republic prioritized headlines in October 1940

Paraprosdokian: "a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect." @ericstephen.bsky.social

The Homeland episode that no one asked for.

Rare TV Ads From 120 Years of Variety: So many good ones, but for its surreal labeling I have to call out "a Very Special Episode" of Seinfeld. (It's the one where Elaine and Jerry try to set the rules.)

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The Rick Moranis version.

I think The Music Man is a must see, especially if you’re a Lyle Lanley fan.

In the meantime, put the Patti LuPone-Mandy Patinkin version of Evita on in the car.

Also, movies like Fame and Grease, if you haven’t seen them (you probably have).

Movie musicals? Or theater cast recordings?

Koufax at 90: Celebrating a legend The legendary Sandy Koufax celebrates his 90th birthday today

Happy 90th birthday, Sandy Koufax!
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How old do you have to be to know who Bud Greenspan is?

Jolly Rancher is an A candy marred by F wrapping.