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Simmons wrote a great piece about the changing late-night dynamic on his website. And about John Mulaney, my favorite joke of his is part of his New in Town special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNGz-coRK5w

Mulaney is my favorite in a really long time. It might be because he's an effeminate little girl like me, but nevertheless.

He is Joe Flacco Jr. in just about every single way.

The fact that they signed Forsett most likely precludes them from going anywhere near Archer.

Because he bought the house in 2008, as the bubble was bursting.

Well, duh. He's on ESPN.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Chykie is actually pretty good, so I'm not sure where you're getting that opinion. No he's not a cover corner and no he doesn't have fantastic ball skills, but he has long arms and he's a really quick mover (fast recovery). He's perfect for the slot and I'd expect him to do better there than Webb was doing at the end of last season.

Imagining you spending most of your time drying glasses and talking about last night's fight on HBO. I ignored Oldschool's post the other day (like I do all of his others), because there's just no sense in fighting a punching dummy. It just bounces back, time and time again--predictably so, but nevertheless. Racist is as racist does.

And cute and talented with three kids is just plain hard-working.

Maybe I'm the only one who feels like, if you're interested in being in the business of news, that you should only be writing things that are actually news? I really don't understand. Whatever.

Oh, boy. Tony is really funny. He's so great.

You'll be back there with him soon enough

I'm glad that I didn't.

Not really dealing power, since they can't be traded. But those are four more players we get to bring in.

Too soon.

I'm in. Let's go. Rise and fire.

I was gonna say...

Woohoo. Probably not ready for opening day, not that any of us really expected it. Buck doesn't want to say anything yet. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10612739/manny-machado-baltimore-orioles-not-ready-opening-day

We were always taught that, but the truth is actually the opposite; farmers have always hated DST until recently, because they lose the time in the morning when they're generally more inclined to be farming.

Here's a good comparison SI did a few months ago, with Santana thrown in: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20131220/best-free-agent-pitcher-matt-garza-ubaldo-jimenez-ervin-santana/

I think the summary is correct...Garza and Jimenez are both very similar and we probably got the slightly better one of the two; we definitely did not get any sort of amazingly discounted front office treasure find as some would like to think, though.

The daylight is gained in the evening, obviously, at the cost of morning light. It serves the purpose of increasing retail traffic and keeping people outside later, and those are the people of whom the governments of the western world are in the pockets.

Ugh.