Huh, weird. Like I get congestion and need to pop my ears when I'm sick but I've never had ear pain going with it.

Just listening through a few songs, I like this a lot more now than I did then, but I also still have a lot more melodic indie from the era that I'd rate above it. But also, finding delight in what others hate is such a big part of liking stuff like this.

Alright then we're just disagreeing over metrics here. Either way, I'm sure we can agree on fuck Mike Clevinger.

It's never happened to me but I've had some friends with inner ear problems and if you're getting sharp pain regularly, you might wanna see a doctor about that.

Right, so that was using his stats through 2020, the era where he was one of the top 30 or so pitchers in baseball, aka, a star.

No, it's a former star. His 2021 BP annual comps were Kevin Gausman, Anthony Desclafani and Zach Wheeler

Lol, this band opened for Ted Leo in 2005 and I remember that set as interminable. I'll be curious to see if that's changed in the intervening decades.

I don't know what to tell you other than look at the numbers. Or, alternately, look at what San Diego was willing to give up for him. The guy demonstrated upside for 4 straight seasons (& still put solid numbers in '23), which is exactly why MLB & various clubs keep ignoring that he's a vile human

I hated the guy even before the DV stuff but, sadly, his numbers from '17 through '20 are All-Star caliber

Lol, it'll be a cold day in hell before I start wading through RYM

Yeah, that was gonna be my point. 2000s indie is far more a vibe than coherent genre

Former star seems accurate

Aw, we coulda had D. Boon

the beatles having a song called "mean mr. mustard" is a joke id make about the Beatles

They truly do not make 'em like that anymore

It really thinks you guys are good enough to start a band, it couldn't be that hard.

Ob... Mackbey

Took me until my late 30s to really get his later stuff, so I get the objection, but, if nothing else, it's not a niche opinion. Love and Theft won Pazz and Jop!

Meanwhile, I'm over here polishing my DC for why Nada Surf's Let Go should be a top 10 seed.

at a minimum they've killed this specific goose. the landscape will be forever altered by this moment. not sure what comes next and it's not assured they'll lose, but this has been a series of catastrophically damaging own goals even as they aggressively stuff us in the chipper

it's wild seeing the wheels coming off a guy like trump this badly. after over a decade of this shit, too. one way or the other the billionaire class is icarusing right in front of you, on wings of being way too ravenous, way too off-putting, way too creepy, way too stupid, and way too visible

I really liked my old Nissan Cube

Man, for a long time I woulda easily smashed that Wu button but, as I approach 40, I've really come around on later Dylan and this is one of the best so I feel really torn. Tempted to vote Wu knowing that Dylan will win but will probably have to admit Love & Theft is the better record.

Oh man, the 2000s are not gonna be fun for you

You gotta accept that Dylan had some post-'70s masterpieces for this to make sense

Absolutely

Yoan Moncada, batting 5th, with a big ribbie for the Halos

He has risen

Very funny to me that the defending AL Champion Toronto Blue Jays have Lenyn Sosa and Eloy Jimenez batting 4th and 5th

Munetaka Murakami’s nine home runs are the most of any Japanese-born player in his first 23 MLB games

He has three more than any other Japanese-born player in first 23 MLB games, ahead of Shohei Ohtani, who had six in his first 23 games as a hitter