The cover of "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year" by Jimm Breslin Casey Stengall's worn face is cut into 3 slightly askew horizontal sections by the title

This is a must-read for any fan, and Breslin keeps it short and sweet at barely 100 pages

The Mets lost 17 games in a row in 1962 and I think we can do it again

Remember when they tried to sell us on Devin Williams being a solution

Francisco Lindor... save me..

Francisco Lindor

save me Francisco Lindor

Print is dead, but the Ribbentrop-Eichman Literary Fellowship lives on

The right-wingers capable of shitting out a few paragraphs every week or so truly live the most charmed lives

Podcasters blogging about streamers

It would be so cool if The Pick Is In chime played riiight before cutting to the newsroom

There's maybe a world where it could be used positively, but I don't think we live in it

The thing is that it's deployed almost exclusively against whichever part of the coalition is unhappy or is most likely going to be unhappy. I don't think this is necessarily good or bad, but ime that's how the slogan is utilized practically every time

VBNMW is essentially a cudgel, I'm not sure why it would be viewed as anything else

Great Man Theory <<< Good Man Praxis

Norm's a good man and a great example of how to be a good man

It's very quaint to think of VBNMW as anything other than a cudgel to wield against whatever faction lost a Democratic primary

It looks like jarred sofrito that was left out overnight

None, it's all warmed over garbage

It's actually a lot more nuanced than that....

Different people will say this happened at different points of the series, but somewhere along the way they stopped being movies and started being content

Among all the other reasons this is stupid, I think it's underrated how we were only able to win the revolution because of Washington's mandate that the entire Continental Army get inoculated against smallpox in 1777

April 21, 1926: In Albany, N.Y., Gov. Al Smith is presented with the gift of a tiger cub from the Astoria Democratic Club.

Their best player bricks the game winning FTs with seconds to go and we just let that shit ride

How do you not call a TO there

Must be a cool time to be a Villanova alum

Jose Alvarado doing the absolute most with his playing time

Careful, Clan na Gael may come for you in the replies

Proud of Mitch whenever he hits a FT

Walking over someone is a tech? Give me a break

Drawer twenty and it's a really big armoire