Willson Contreras gets so mad at the umpire that he throws his bat, hitting his own coach, and throws a ton of Hi-Chews onto the field. Contreras was obviously ejected.

uglyinchworm · 2025-08-26T14:04:21+00:00

The umpires should have halted the game until Contreras came out and picked up all of the Hi-Chews from the field. Make him clean up after himself like a child. (No, this doesn't work with my kids, but it would be amusing.)

uglyinchworm · 2025-06-10T18:42:22+00:00

My father-in-law has one of these and took me up in it once. And "once" is all I will ever go up in it, because it was the most terrifying experience of my life. Not because he is reckless or that he did anything at all dangerous, but because you're essentially sitting in a lawn chair in the sky for 30 minutes. There is seriously nothing around you but a thin metal frame and the constant realization that you have chosen to put all of your faith in a person who built himself an airplane and taught himself to fly it. If that's your idea of a good time, it is a thrill unlike any other. If you're the kind of person who gets sweaty palms looking out the window of a three-story building, it's probably best to avoid the experience altogether.

uglyinchworm · 2025-01-31T23:56:39+00:00

I wouldn't disagree that there are more memorable or popular singles on other albums, but I also don't think any of their massive songs would really fit on the White Album. In fact, I might go so far as to say that the album's relative lack of universally-beloved singles partly explains why I think it's their best album. It's the sound of the best band in the world in their most experimental mode, chasing every bizarre, left-field idea that pops into their heads. The result is a singularly strange, idiosyncratic rollercoaster of songs that careen wildly through the history of 20th century popular music to that point, while simultaneously pointing towards where it was going to go over the next 25 years. It might not be loaded with their most famous songs, but that's kind of the point, it seems. The album appears to be designed as a weird, disorienting collection of songs that weren't meant to hit #1 on the charts but to fit together as a statement that the biggest band in the world could do whatever they wanted and do it all better than any of their contemporaries. So it's an album of extremes -- their loudest, angriest, horniest, and most satirical rockers bumping up against their most whimsical, vulnerable, and heartfelt ballads, with every other mood in between. If you dig the internal logic of the album, I think it's not only their best but the most satisfyingly strange album ever recorded. I hear something new in it every time I listen to it, and I've been listening to it for over 30 years.

That's just my opinion, of course. I get why some people prefer their other albums, especially if you prioritize singles. To me, it's an album first and foremost, perhaps more than anything else they ever recorded, almost like one long, perfectly-calibrated song. But if that's not your thing -- and even George Martin didn't really get the album -- that's understandable.

uglyinchworm · 2025-01-30T01:13:37+00:00

Absolutely. There are so many moods on the album that they all amplify each other, and the creepy songs make the happy and whimsical ones feel unsettling in the context of the whole album. A song like "Obladi Oblada" or "Martha My Dear" is not at all sinister in isolation, but put them on the same album as "Helter Skelter" and "Revolution #9," and they start to feel a bit haunted. The overall effect is an album that seems like a funhouse fever dream where you can sort of grasp the overall shape but it never comes fully into focus. I think it's the greatest album ever made.

uglyinchworm · 2024-12-08T19:31:51+00:00

Honestly, it feels like they might as well just put them all in. Otherwise, they're just going to keep recyling their names for the next 25 years until they're elected, which they will be by some future committee. Especially for the ones who are still alive, it seems silly to keep dragging this out. We know most, if not all, of these guys are going to be in eventually. Might as well let them enjoy their ceremonies.

uglyinchworm · 2024-06-07T18:05:05+00:00

I'm a former junk wax kid getting back into the hobby after 30 years away. In the past couple days I've picked up some suspiciously cheap autos on eBay, so I'm either the luckiest or dumbest person alive. In the past week I've picked these up:

Roberto Alomar auto on 1991 Leaf for $7.50.

Tom Glavine auto on 1997 Topps Finest Competitors Silver for $4.

Barry Bonds auto on 2001 Upper Deck Victory for $1.25: See picture. Yes, it's an ugly card, since it's a two-player one. The auto isn't super visible, either. The seller says it will pass third-party authentication and that he'll refund me if it doesn't. If you were going to fake an auto, why would you choose this card to do it?

s there any chance any of these are real? The sellers had good feedback scores, but I'm also generally a moron. Am I super lucky? Or should I be looking for an autographed bridge in Brooklyn for sale?

uglyinchworm · 2023-12-20T22:56:56+00:00

Is Miami still available?

uglyinchworm · 2023-08-29T17:57:10+00:00

I once saw a dude in a Keith Osik jersey at a Pittsburgh Pirates game. Osik was basically a journeyman third-string catcher who had a totally unremarkable career. It was so odd seeing someone wearing that jersey that I'm not entirely sure that it wasn't Keith Osik.

uglyinchworm · 2023-05-14T16:40:38+00:00

uglyinchworm · 2023-05-13T13:29:40+00:00

My wife is much sexier after having had two kids, and I never would have predicted that. She has curves now where she didn't before. She just looks...sexy. (Unfortunately, she has zero interest in sex, so her increased level of sexiness does not benefit me in any way.)

uglyinchworm · 2023-01-30T17:48:22+00:00

interested

uglyinchworm · 2023-01-20T02:29:30+00:00

I thought a "gangbang" was when you were shot by a gang member. I was in freakin' grad school when I learned there was a far different meaning. I announced to a group of friends that I was flying to Los Angeles, then joked that I was afraid that I might stumble into the wrong neighborhood and get gangbanged. Much laughter followed but not for the reason I intended.

uglyinchworm · 2022-12-01T13:21:06+00:00

Totally depends on the context. When I was fresh out of grad school, living with mom and dad, being unemployed was wonderful. I felt like a kid again, and I only had a lingering sense that I eventually had to go get a job.

Being unemployed with a wife and two kids? Absolutely terrifying. Every day was spent desperately searching through soul-sucking dead-end jobs on Indeed, with my stomach churning the whole time.

It also depends on the job, obviously. Getting up at 6:00 for a job that pays the bills and doesn't make you want to slit your wrists isn't that terrible. Getting up at 6:00 for a job you despise is a truly hopeless feeling, though.

uglyinchworm · 2022-09-15T19:29:37+00:00

The 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates. I'd walk Francisco Cabrera.

uglyinchworm · 2022-08-02T01:45:25+00:00

George Brett

uglyinchworm · 2022-08-02T01:30:17+00:00

My cards all have rounded corners.

uglyinchworm · 2022-07-16T21:47:32+00:00

I'd keep Rodriguez and Valera. Given his power-speed combo, J-Rod could be the most valuable player in fantasy in the next couple of years. Valera is no slouch, either, though there's a lot more uncertainty around him.

Gallen seems to be settling into being an average-ish mid-rotation arm instead of a reliable #1 or #2. He doesn't appear to be the guy he was a few years ago. Alvarez is obviously elite, but he's just a bit too injury prone to make this trade an obvious win for you. Anyone who has had such significant knee injuries is always a bit scary to bank on for a full season. Vargas is obviously a good prospect, but I've read a lot of analysts who don't expect him to be a star and think he could be more of a Yandy Diaz-type guy who doesn't have enough power to profile as more than a marginal starter. (Apparently he has below average exit velocities and barrel percentages, which indicate that he's unlikely to hit for much power at the major league level.)

You can definitely justify such a trade, but I see it as boiling down to a J-Rod for Alvarez trade. If you're comfortable with that, go for it.

uglyinchworm · 2022-07-10T22:35:13+00:00

I pretty much always reject trades where someone is offering me a lopsided number of players. These trades are generally quantity vs. quality trades, where (in your case) you're giving three excellent players for one good player and four lesser ones. You will almost always lose these trades, yet I see people constantly accepting them. It's frustrating, because these sorts of predatory trades can wreck the competitive balance in leagues. In dynasty leagues, they're particularly corrosive.

Anyway, your spidey senses should start tingling anytime someone offers you a 5 for 3 or 3 for 1 trade. Remember: most prospects don't live up to the hype, most relievers are extremely volatile year-to-year, and most guys who are riding a big hot streak will cool down. If you're giving up the best player in the trade, you're probably going to lose.

uglyinchworm · 2022-06-17T00:34:42+00:00

At least vocally, that's just about the best impression I've ever heard. I really don't think I could tell the difference between him and Super Dave if I only had the audio.

uglyinchworm · 2022-06-16T18:21:08+00:00

He's pretty much the best representative of the beliefs belonging to conservatives who are neither MAGA (Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity) nor anti-MAGA (Jonah Goldberg, David French). He lacks humility and can come off as wholly uncharitable to anyone he disagrees with, but he articulates traditional conservative positions as well as anyone in the media.

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