Dave Hogg

There's a World Baseball Classic in four months. Yoshinobu Yamamoto has just volunteered to pitch in every game.

Canada can't play Japan before the championship game. Since they are currently ranked behind Czechia, Great Britain, and Italy, this shouldn't be a problem.

Randy Johnson did it in 2001. He pitched seven innings to win Game 6 and won Game 7 in relief.

Grover Cleveland Alexander won Game 6 with a complete game in 1926, then pitched the last 2 1/3 innings with a one-run lead to save Game 7. He was also massively hungover.

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

I don't think John Gibson originally intended to knock the net off the moorings, but once it came off, he shoved it the rest of the way.

I think the refs have gotten the big calls right in the last 24 hours.

When I was in elementary school, we had the Jimmy Hoffa kidnapping *and* the Oakland County Child Killer within a few miles of our house.

It was a long time before I realized that wasn't normal.

That was a lovely hour, especially coming on your day after the 20th anniversary of Dad's death.

People keep saying they will be amused if the Blue Jays win the World Series, because Canada will have won both the NBA and MLB championships since their last Stanley Cup win.

That's already true. The Canadiens won the last Stanley Cup in 1993, a few months before the Blue Jays won that fall.

Games with 25+ points, 10+ assists, 5+rebounds, 3+ blocks, 3+ steals, 0 turnovers in NBA history:

1) Hakeem Olajuwon, 1994
2) Cade Cunningham, tonight

Cade had more points (30 to 26), while Hakeem had more rebounds (13 to 6), steals (5 to 3), and blocks (4 to 3). They each had 10 assists.

Grifters love Trump, not only because he encourages them to keep scamming people, but because he shares their core belief - "yesterday, I was lying to you, but today I'm telling the truth."

They really hate it when you keep track of the lies - they need everyone to forget.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers intentionally walked Barry Bonds 81 times, more than any other franchise in baseball.

Dave Hogg (@davehogg) I ruined some poor kid's year today. I was playing disc golf at the local park, and the 8th hole runs parallel to the small wooded nature trail, then doglegs into the woods for the last 10-15 yards. ...

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Sheffield Wednesday placed in administration, get 12-point deduction Wednesday will now fall to minus six points after 11 games of the Championship season.

This means certain relegation to League One next season, which is ridiculous for one of the biggest football clubs in England.

But after 35 years as a Wednesday supporter, I'm thrilled. The club didn't have a future under Chansiri. New ownership gives us a chance.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...

The text of item 44 of the indictment, which says Co-Consipirator 8 told a defendant that the Portland Trail Blazers - the team Chauncey Billups coached - would be intentionally losing the game by not playing their best players.

Co-Conspirator 8 is Chauncey Billups. If this is true, his NBA coaching career is over and there is going to be serious discussions over NBA teams tanking games.

Angelo Ruggiero - Wikipedia

Seeing Chauncey Billups listed as a defendant alongside Angelo Ruggiero, Jr. is crazy. If you've read anything about John Gotti, you've heard of Angelo Sr. If not:

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The Pistons got 25 points tonight off jumpers from outside the post. That's lower than any game last season.

I certainly understand that. I wish I had a better idea.

A family member in Portland Oregon died unexpectedly and left behind a 2 year old husky who is currently on a 5 day hold in a shelter while I try to figure out a way to get her to me here in Portland Maine so that I can adopt her...without it costing All the Money.

Anyone have any ideas?

Call the newspapers and/or TV stations in both Portlands, explain who you are and what you are trying to do. Someone will see it as a nice human-interest story and run with it.

That said, someone running for the US Senate should probably research that gnarly skull he got inked onto himself.

I know a lot more about World War II than most people - my library is over 100 books - and I've only seen the SS-Totenkopfverbande symbol a couple of times.

I have zero problem believing a bunch of drunk Marines stationed overseas could see the logo and decide it looked badass enough for a tattoo.

Trump is going to award himself $230 million of taxpayer money as he tears down the entire East Wing of the White House for a ballroom designed to his own atrocious tastes.

Is there *anything* he could do that would cause the GOP to stand up to him?

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom"

I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

I'm an American who has lived 16 yrs in Europe. If you plan to visit France, and you really want to experience it, then you should focus on the Loire Valley. This is France. Jamie will be the perfect host and Chinon is beyond lovely. Do it.

Nothing as bad as Cade, but the jerseys all have the same screwed-up wordmark across the chest.

I wonder if the officials got a call from New York to check that one more time.

Imagine St. Brown running underneath patterns while the defense is trying to account for Megatron, Herman Moore, and Charlie Sanders.

Or Gibbs as a third-down back who could shift out into the slot.

Jahmyr Gibbs has 217 yards from scrimmage, which is the sixth-highest total by a Lion in the last 25 seasons.

He's behind three Megatron games, including a franchise-record 329, one by Jahvid Best and one by Kevin Jones.

I appreciate that.

Jahmyr Gibbs is never going to be the best Lions running back I've ever covered, just like Amon-Ra St. Brown won't be the best wide receiver.

But if I'm ever picking a 53-man all-time Lions roster, they are both going to be on there somewhere.