oldtimefamilybaseball:

baltimoronspodcast:

EPISODE 45: Ferris Wheels & Merry-Go-Rounds (w/ Michael Clair)

We were thrilled to be joined by Michael Clair, the creator of Old Time Family Baseball, for an in-depth discussion of Steve Pearce’s enduring allure, Adrien Brody’s career choices, and how sabermetrics manage to be awesome while also being impossible to understand.  

Elsewhere in the episode, Jim Palmer is taken to task, we try to guess what Buck Showalter’s actual first name is, and answer your excellent emails and phone calls.  Engooden your times by clicking above, or better yet, why not subscribe in iTunes so you never miss an episode?

The very funny and gracious Sam Dingman and Alan Smith allowed me to come on their show and ruin it for one episode. It was very nice of them. 

Anyway, check it out as we talk about a whole number of baseball issues that are near and dear to me. And if you’re an Orioles fan or just someone who likes a good ole baseball time in general, stick around for their other episodes, too. 

Because I’m nothing if not a lover of self-promotion, listen to me talk about a bunch of basebally and not-basebally things. Somehow, death is a prominent subject! Like always! 

thefrenemy:

Listen—it’s 12am in the fucking evening morning and I just got the final copy of my first book and fuck it I have a book and Rachel Dratch blurbed the cover and all of this was my baby dream and it’s all because of you assholes—the assholes that make me be honest and stupid and furious and…

Alida won! 

ff-365:

Fantastic Four #300 by Roger Stern, John Buscema and Sal Buscema

Those damn Yancy boys. 

The most beautiful day of the year is here.

seanhowe:

1970s Marvel lunchbox. I carried this to the cafeteria every day of 2nd grade.

I….have this lunchbox. 

leeleeleelee:

Old Time Family Baseball blogger Michael Clair is clearly making the best out of his MLB Fan Cave experience. So suave. So suave.

I finally get to show off my robe wearing abilities!

thechucklesquad:

With the Oscars only a few hours away, enjoy the greatest film of the year: Zero Dark Catfish. Maya seeks the assistance of Nev and Max, hosts of MTV’s Catfish, to find her most sought after target.

Watch, love, share, kiss. 

With the Oscars tonight, I guess I finally have to reveal my favorite 10 movies from 2012. Otherwise how will you get to sleep at night with that gnawing curiosity in your gut? The 10: 

10. 21 Jump Street - I thought I was going to hate this movie. And it ended up being 10,000 times the comedy it had any right to be. Plus, how about that Channing Tatum? What a charming dreamboat. 

9. Moonrise Kingdom - I think I’d have to give back my diploma to Emerson if a Wes Anderson movie wasn’t one of my favorites of the year. 

8. Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow did an amazing job taking one of the biggest stories in my lifetime and condensing into a thoughtful, provocative, and incredibly tense film. Plus, Andy Dwyer as a soldier! Burt Macklin finally made it. 

7. Dark Knight Rises - Flawed? Yes. But it also was super duper sweet and had a bunch of awesome scenes and oh man, you remember when the plane turned upside down? Or Tom Hardy’s voice? Or SOME DAYS YOU JUST CAN’T GET RID OF A BOMB. Or like, when Batman and Catwoman like kiss and blow stuff up and wear awesome costumes? 

6. Argo - Do you remember when Ben Affleck was a punchline? That was a thing for like a decade. I just, I just don’t know what to do with all of this. 

5. Cabin in the Woods - I still don’t see why everyone was freaking out about the “twist” ending, it didn’t seem to be much of a twist to me, but I loved this one. It was scary, legitimately funny (something horror comedies rarely are), played with the conventions of the genre, AND had Bradley Whitford. Bradley Whitford for life, bro. 

4. Beasts of the Southern Wild - Yeah, I cried after this movie. And the next morning, too. You wanna fight about it? 

3. Avengers - This movie had explosions and aliens and Captain America being cool and Tony Stark being cool and Thor being cool and Hawkeye…being pretty lame, but the Hulk was really cool. This movie was cool.

2. Django Unchained - I like spaghetti Westerns and I hate racists. I also have a weird fetish for this Christoph Waltz video.  

1. Paranorman - For all of you people who didn’t see this movie, what were you doing? It was clever, inventive, funny, and felt like the kind of 80s horror adventure film that just doesn’t get made anymore. 

(Poster by Graham Erwin) 

bangbangplay:

Yessss, it’s me and Michael aka oldtimefamilybaseball in Arizona for the MLB Fan Cave Top 30!! 

I also have apparently never smiled before because my mouth doesn’t know how to do it!