Still, the best writer of the past five years.

I met him at a SABR meeting in KC a few years ago, really nice. It would have been Jan of 2010. There were like 30 people over 50, me, and Posnanski was one of the key note speakers. I talked to him afterward, even gave him a story idea. We exchanged emails on Ellis Rubin, as he was going to Miami for the Super Bowl the next week. He ended up not writing about it because he was dead, and he was going to try to track him down. I ended up writing about it instead–http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=5967

I can attest that he is as nice in private as he seems in his writing.

Did NDub just get disappeared to Room 101?

Rats.

Even I’m starting to feel badly for Leafs fans. Only a little, but still.

Won $50 off the Leafs won’t make the playoffs early season bet. You can make a small fortune betting against Toronto fans. In my weaker moments, I almost pity them.

They come in thirty minutes or less or your money back.

It disgusts me that I know enough about your masturbation habits to get this joke.

/vomits

or Moleman’s frozen pizzas

They come in thirty minutes or less or your money back.

Yes. It was a long-winded narrative on appreciating things, and how an athlete might not be the best but might be the best you’ve seen. I just spared you 5900 words of reading. Even so, he’s the best. If I was an active sprotswriter, I’d beg him to mentor and help my writing.

if it means less mc tibble baseball posts on this site, who gives a shit?

Why write about baseball when you can write about how many people may or may not watch baseball?

Fair point.

The same way that I know I don’t like shit sandwiches

I’ve never watched a single episode of Mad Men, Justified, Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Walking Dead, or Archer. Guess I’m not a huge TV person…..

Some of these I’ve never seen, but Mad Men is damn good, as is the unmentioned Sopranos. The Wire is fantastic. Working my way through Breaking Bad right now which is also excellent.

But I rarely watch anything in real time, or even days or weeks later. I tend to let a few seasons pile up then burn through them all.

He’s too good of a writer to need 6,000 words to write about why Midnight Oil was the best concert he ever seen

Did he really do this? What a waste of words and time.

You go see Midnight Oil and then try to say that.

TBL BASEBALL WRITER

I actually enjoy Yardwork quite a bit, as long as I remember to open Chrome in a sarcasm window. Yardwork will be responsible for most of my commenting here all summer, I imagine.