Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)

True Life: I like orange cream seltzer

A spare and haunting Johnny Cash cover of “Wrecking Ball”

They should make a baby that doesn’t need its fingernails trimmed

[Sam Elliott voice] Coors Game

Yankees fans are now required to hug and kiss and marry Anthony Volpe

Doing some important Google searching

1. A packed Times Square theater going crazy during the naked wrestling scene in BORAT
2. A packed Harlem theater cheering on Jamie Foxx as he shot up the plantation in DJANGO UNCHAINED
3. When “QUEENS” flashed on screen during CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, half my Times Square showing went bananas

Erasmo Ramirez *and* Jose Ureña both on the roster in the year of our Lord 2025 is some bleak stuff

That goes for the Orioles too: If you're giving up on the year, you have no right to charge your fans for an intentionally bad product. All your home games should be free and your concessions should be slashed below $5 (except for alcohol). And everything in the team store should be deep discount.

It made perfect sense for the Twins to sell at the deadline; it was a mediocre roster below .500, and in the process they shed a big contract that made no sense for them. But teams that tank the season at the deadline like that shouldn't be allowed to charge admission to their remaining home games.

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Walking Anthony Volpe should be a demotion-worthy offense

Mason Miller Soldier Spy

Jawn Duran

I think Rocco Baldelli is either terminally bored or trying to get fired

Gotta love some good deadline banter

Why exactly do the Twins have their top setup reliever throwing in the ninth inning of a game they're losing by multiple runs one day before the trade deadline

Too bad the Angels aren't selling or else "Pirates third baseman Yoan Moncada" would be a shoo-in

The Angels are buying*

*acquiring two bad middle relievers over 35

IF YOUNG PASSAN DON'T REPORT YOU I'M GONNA SCOOP YOU

Mine came with a hoodie covered in faded nacho cheese stains

Well this is reassuring

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I am issuing a global opt-out on Katy Perry news

Place I got lunch was playing "Lose Yourself to Dance", a song so lazy and inert that you can practically hear the Daft Punk guys snoring through their helmets in the background

Tyler Heinemann's reactions as he keeps getting bad calls made against him repeatedly is pure comedy

A shirt that reads WORKOUT PLAN ARMS DEADLIFT HELICOPTER MAXIMUM SPEED RESEARCH DEADLIFT and it spells out “adhd”

Genuinely astounded by whatever is going on here

"What did we learn here, Palmer?"
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't fucking know either."