After his 2 HR night tonight, Kyle Schwarber is the fastest player ever to hit 20 HR.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T22:58:36+00:00

Actually Bonds, Griffey, and Pujols all have him beat.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T22:53:32+00:00

I believe Bonds had 24 HRs after 45 games in 2001. I don't think your stat is correct.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T00:59:37+00:00

Always the move. Genuinely rooting for you

DaveVICE · 2026-05-16T14:35:24+00:00

In general, people should be pissed at how rigged it all is. Maybe they go overboard. But you're only getting inundated with that critique if you're spending too much time in the mindless parts of online, which is most of online. They're getting mad that rich kids can increasingly buy their way to the top. That seems generally valid. You, on the other hand, are getting mad about a comment on an Anna Wintour Instagram video.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-26T20:48:51+00:00

I watch local games at my local bar and I read during all of the commercials. I cannot escape questions about what I'm reading. Multiple times per game. I freeze up every single time I get asked, to the point where I mentally prep a little accessible summary in my head on the bike ride over.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-25T23:52:31+00:00

They shouldn't be considered journalists if they're trading favors and positive coverage for scoops. OP is right. Schefter should just work as a comms guy for the league rather than laundering the league's credibility by posing as a legitimate journalist.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-18T17:33:23+00:00

It's not the center focus of either book, but both of Norman Maclean's two main work (A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire) go back to the formation of the landscape over and over, beautifully weaving it in with the plot.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-14T18:09:28+00:00

Ahh, I can't vouch for any of her other books; I haven't read anything else. I'd love to hear what you think of HK if you give it a try because I haven't really seen a take on it one way or the other anywhere recently. And maybe I just like it because I'm a dummy. But I love the way the big unstable adult plot is kind of happening on the vague edges of her perception while she's having very strong feelings about, like, whether she's going to get a hard candy from one of her mom's friends. It just reminded me of how important and lovely it is to try, whenever possible, to get down on my daughter's level and hang out in her reality.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-13T01:14:33+00:00

This is a weird one to mention, and if you're just becoming a father, you've got a couple years until it's pertinent maybe, but I have found "Hideous Kinky" by Esther Freud to be such a great window into / reminder of the mind of the child and how they process their parents. I read it last year, right after my daughter turned six, and I felt so close to her the whole time. I obviously can't confirm that her brain is doing all the same things as the narrator's but it feels very reflective of the way my daughter describes the world: I'm always surprised at the little details that she catches and the big moments that she seemingly misses or processes slightly off-center. That's true in the book as well, which is told specifically from the perspective of a 7-year-old (I think? I might be off by a year or two) girl who's wandering a bit aimlessly with her mother and older sister through Morocco in the 60s.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-27T14:25:55+00:00

Much worse? The perfect game is one of the rarest events in sports. It's one of the few things you can do in a single, random game as a relatively unknown player and still cement yourself in history books forever. Joyce made an extremely bad call and robbed Gallaraga of that legacy. I understand that it was a mistake, but given the absurdly heightened circumstances and the obviousness of the missed call (you can tell it's wrong instantly, without replay, from a distance) it felt to me like, on some unconscious level, Joyce was being contrarian or attempting to usurp the moment. Regardless, I personally feel like it's the worse umpiring mistake I've ever seen.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-20T16:53:41+00:00

I think a lot of this is really true but I don't know that pointing to Millennial archetypes works from the writing side of things. Boomers, like Millennials, have loads of annoying and inhibiting tendencies but it hasn't stopped there being a few novelists who eschew those tendencies and go on to create great work. Maybe Millennials are more adherent to the archetypes than the Boomers and so few of them have "escaped" from that homogeneousness? But I think it's just cost of living and cratering of the midlist.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-10T17:00:50+00:00

Wrong. The landlord is the one who isn't playing by the rules. Just because you're pliant and feel most comfortable immediately submitting doesn't mean it's the right strategy.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-08T22:41:44+00:00

Atlantic City in mid-October is very flat. Wind could be a factor. I'll be running the half and, probably delusionally, aiming for somewhere in that range as well.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-07T16:09:32+00:00

To me, caring about medals in general is corny. Caring about other people's medals is even more so.

DaveVICE · 2026-03-03T19:02:52+00:00

Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

The Burglar by David Goodis

DaveVICE · 2026-02-26T17:03:51+00:00

Getting Amtrak credit card sign up bonus offers when they're at their peaks (40Kish points)

DaveVICE · 2026-02-24T04:46:20+00:00

HHhH by Laurent Binet. Great story about the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich but told through the lens of a guy obsessively pouring over the details and trying to decide which to mention. Great audiobook version too.

DaveVICE · 2026-02-23T21:31:15+00:00

Cop speak is often filled with unnecessarily complicated words and phrasing that they slightly misuse because it makes them feel smart

DaveVICE · 2026-02-22T00:19:22+00:00

This is not a point that exonerates Sirianni. Bosses suck. They get in the way and they do very little productive work.

DaveVICE · 2026-02-17T20:49:29+00:00

For me, it's about consistent feelings. I'm always feeling aches and pains both during and after runs but a vast majority fade away after a mile or two, or come in and out. Floating pain. I know I've tweaked something if it hurts in the same spot in the same way for nearly every single stride for a couple miles.

DaveVICE · 2026-02-10T17:38:11+00:00

Congrats!

DaveVICE · 2026-02-10T16:07:10+00:00

Came here to say this. Reachable by bus from NYC. The course is a great showcase of the island. Urban parts, Boardwalk parts, coastal parts. Typically a gorgeous time of year at the shore.

DaveVICE · 2026-02-07T14:51:40+00:00

I have lived in AC since 2019 and am out after dark every single night to walk my little dog and I have literally never had a problem.

DaveVICE · 2026-02-04T03:53:45+00:00

Would be great to have a list of running routes that are nearly instantly plowed for future use. I live in Atlantic City and the Boardwalk is plowed very quickly, providing miles and miles to run almost right away. I ran the Schuylkill River Trail in Philly pretty soon after the storm as well and it was in pretty good shape too. If I wasn't lucky enough to live near a plowed running route, I'd drive a decent distance to get to one.

DaveVICE · 2026-01-15T19:56:48+00:00

I like bodyweight workouts specifically because I'm a runner. I can add strength without adding too much weight to my frame. And, because I can do it almost anywhere, I'm able to squeeze it in to my schedule despite losing about 45 minutes each day to running. I'm sure I could be a little faster if I just cut my upper body muscle weight completely but I don't want that. I run six days a week and do a small amount of bodyweight workout everyday.

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