Deep thought

Why is an actor in a movie but on a tv show?

Exactly right, @MadBastardsAll

Chris Thompson nails it:

The Cardinal Way isn’t playing the right way, it’s making a big fucking deal out of playing the right way ...

Way back, when I was a kid and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I loved me some Bob Gibson and Lou Brock, to the point where my maternal grandfather banished me from the house during the 1967 World Series.

Not sure when it began, but I did at some point, some years later, start becoming sick of the sanctimony of the St. Louis Cardinals. Or, at least, clowns like Joe Buck (of Fox Sports, of course) intoning about them.

And then, one day, Tony LaRussa and Albert Pujols were prominently on display at a Glenn Beck rally. (This is back when that slob was big -- kind of the Donald Trump of his day.) I've never forgiven either for that, and will not, until they publicly apologize.

I do, however, love me some Yadier Molina. So, since they're apparently rebuilding ...

First step, IMNSHO? Make Dexter Fowler happy.

However, the keeper who left the door unlocked?

Valerio will not be permanently put to sleep as he "was doing what jaguars do."

Good call, whoever decided.

Yeah, yeah. I clicked on a "Twitter Moment" link.

Line of the Day: 2018-07-14

If Trump has one single accomplishment as President, it is how thoroughly he’s revealed extremely rich people as being not somehow braver or smarter or more disciplined than the rest of us but somehow exactly the opposite—consumed by pettiness, enslaved by vanity, and perfectly willing to fuck important things up in order to make some point to themselves and their rancid peers.
    -- David Roth

(via an ongoing story that has me OD'ing on schadenfreude)

Ponder this

While refreshing my memory of what a Schwarzschild radius is, I came across this rather startling claim:

... the average density of a supermassive black hole can be less than the density of water.

Thanks for the link, John Timmer!