GoodEnough for Me: Damn You, ESPN

And damn you, Comcast, too.
I have OnDemand’s Extra Innings Package.  I shell out the 175 bucks for it in the summer because I would like to watch baseball from 6PM, when I get home from work, until whenever I go to bed (anywhere from 11-2AM). 
Last week, we had the debut of Phil Hughes for the [...]

Do They All Die?: “Philadelphia”

[Editor's Note: We've just added "Do They All Die?" to the sidebar so, please, check out all our past columns in the series. We can't believe we haven't done this already.]
Here at Mr. Thursday, we really love Philadelphia and are proud to come from this great city. It’s the cradle of American liberalism, the birthplace [...]

Friday Show and Tell

The Phillies are probably getting rained out, again, so we’re sitting at home debating on whether to spend $100 on a six-pack of very rare beer…
How good is Alex Rodriguez?  So good that a nearly imperceptible change in his swing has turned him from so-good-Yankees-fans-hate-him to Oh-My-God-He-Could-Have-200-RBIs-This-Year!  [The Baseball Analysts]
Aeon Flux isn’t my type of [...]

Lion vs. Hyena

Why are there not more videos like this? Hat tip is inadequate: Captain Caveman, we genuflect before you for this find. Amazing. Thank you.

Sine Macula: Bone Machine

Tom Waits is a brilliant musician. This album, Bone Machine, is not his best, nor his most well-known, and yet this still qualifies, with ease, for Sine Macula.
Bone Machine was released in 1992, Waits first proper album since 1987’s Frank’s Wild Years. In the years between the albums Waits did a bit of acting, and [...]

Wake Up America! You Too, World!

Today we’re gonna discuss something a little more serious. I know there are wars, and terrorism, and poverty, illiteracy, political scandals, cancer, racial hatred, ethnic hatred, and that the designated hitter is still a part of baseball, but we need to sit down today and talk about something that’s even more real, terrifying, and dangerous. [...]

Foot & Meter: In the Clutch

Dejan Kovacevic, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has written an excellent article on the concept of clutch-hitting in baseball (thanks to Baseball Musings for the find). Clutch-hitting is a somewhat nebulous concept in baseball. There are players who are known for their “clutchness” (or, if you prefer, “clutchity”), such as David Ortiz and Derek Jeter. There [...]

The Many Heads of the Hydra

Almost two weeks ago, the terrorist bombings in Algiers–the worst bombing there in a decade–came to the surprise of some. 33 people were killed and many more were wounded by two explosions on Wednesday April 11th. The responsibility for these bombings was assumed by al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.
Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, formerly known as [...]