Okay. The expanded World Cup format is great. I regret ever questioning it.

Pure New York Times: "Here are some of our favorite recipes from restaurants and bakeries across the country." Proceeds to list 10 recipes from New York City, one from San Francisco, and one from Maine. cooking.nytimes.com/article/staf...

Not gonna lie. This might be my best timeline serendipity.

It’s so weird to me that there are so many people who think that Minneapolis is a great city that’s only getting better and is definitely better than it was a decade ago who also find it unfathomable that half the city is thinking the two-term mayor is doing a fine job.

Been catching up on Shrinking and it is crazy how little attention Ted McGinley is when Derek is consistently the best part of the show.

I'm very curious why the Fox broadcast shows Kiké (Enrique) Hernandez as "K. Hernandez" while the Canadian broadcast shows "E. Hernandez."

It is Halloween! This is bullshit.

Does anybody know if it's every snowed on Halloween in Minnesota before?

There’s long been a trope that it’s hard for Minneapolis newcomers to make friends with native Minneapolitans because the natives will never truly consider you to be “One of us” but I never expected the mayor’s PAC to send us a flyer just straight up telling us, “You don’t belong here.”

All right. I’m tapping out. It’s past midnight and I got a sick kid I’m going to have to look after in the morning. Best of luck to the Blue Jays or at least something interesting happening.

You start to run out of things to say about Shohei Ohtani.

I feel like this violates Chekhov's rule of trailers: If you say you're going to give a Rhea Seehorn a tank, I need to see Rhea Seehorn driving a tank.

I’ve been vaguely rooting for the Mariners but, I have to admit, there’s nothing quite like seeing a huge, go-ahead homer hit by the home team late in a game seven.

I don’t know why I decided to look this up, but if Barack Obama had never become president and had just stayed in the Senate for the last sixteen years, he still would not be in the top half of the oldest US senators. There are 57 senators older than he is.

Okay. I’m transitioning to the couch because I have to work in the morning and there’s a decent chance I fall asleep before this thing is over.

This dude, headed to the turf, is six seconds from scoring the game-winning touchdown.

Still always bugs me when the Childs' Britishisms slip into Jack Reacher's dialogue.

Lot of people making anime or foreign film jokes, but 7 of last year's 10 highest-grossing live-action films and 7 of the 10 Best Picture nominees were filmed outside the US. This is either going to tank the film industry or turn us into China where movies film one token scene in the US to win favor

“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adapt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion.” - Benjamin Franklin, 1751

It is bonkers how many of Chotiner’s “gotchas” are just some version of his interviewee saying something a little bit off and Chotiner saying, “What do you mean by that?”

Kind of tuned out when Ferris State slowed things down, but they just put up 28 points in less than six minutes to go up 70-0 just before the end of the third quarter. The last three Rio Grande drives have ended in: Pick Six Blocked FG returned for a touchdown Punter tackled at his own 2

My daughter fell asleep on the couch during our evening Bluey time but, while I was carrying her to bed, she woke up just long enough to whisper a special message just for me: “Daddy, this morning, in the lunchroom, I saw someone barf.” Good night, kiddo.

I am now apparently “Sleeps awkwardly and is pain for two weeks afterwards” years old.

LOL. That’s the kind of pitch I hit in MLB The Show. Just slam the control stick up and hit square.

Oh, man. They repaved Cedar Ave by Nokomis, and I have to say:

The transition of childhood: 10-year old: “Im going to slide down this thing.” 3-year old: “No, it’s too dangerous.” 6-year old: “Slide it! Slide it! Slide it!”

So Lady Gaga and Jenna Ortega definitely didn’t film their scene together in Wednesday, right? You never see their faces at the same time. It’s all close-ups and over-the-shoulder shots.

This was a lot of fun to make. Not your average Minnesota Twins Joe(y).

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

My speculation based only on being a Twins fan for 20+ years: The Pohlads will sell a ~25% stake in the team for ~$400m, enough to pay off their debts while leaving themselves with as large a stake as they can and claiming the franchise is worth more than $1.5b.

I can only half-explain it, but Carrie Coon was giving me huge Walter White vibes in tonight’s The Gilded Age finale. And I mean that only as a compliment.

I’m doing my part.

Over/under on the first “Sell the team” chant at the Twins/Royals game next Friday night: third inning?

During the Stamp Act crisis, angry Bostonians ransacked the Lt. Governor’s house, taking everything that wasn’t nailed down and even ripping out the floor boards and wainscoting as they left. Feels like that’s what the Pohlads are doing to this team right now.

The most valuable players currently on the Twins' active roster (by WAR) are: Joe Ryan - 4.2 Louis Varland - 1.8 Simeon Woods-Richardson - 1.5 Kody Clemens - 1.2 Nobody else has a WAR greater than 0.7. A starting-caliber player should have a WAR of about 1.3 by now.

Finished reading the Three Body Problem trilogy and, while the last book has some cool ideas, damn it’s like reading a Wikipedia page.

As I always say when it comes to Oscar or Emmy time, if you’re going to say somebody was “snubbed,” you should name the person they should have replaced instead. There’s no way 15 players were “snubbed” as All-Stars. I’m a huge Jhoan Duran bobo, but the three AL relievers selected are all great.

Our show got postponed tonight, so went to see The Life of Chuck. I just vibe so much with what Mike Flanagan does. I will watch absolutely anything he makes and probably enjoy it. This was much more subtle than his usual stuff, but I really enjoyed it.

Games played per multi-homer game: Byron Buxton - 55.4 Justin Morneau - 63.9 Harmon Killebrew - 66.5 Tony Oliva - 93.1 Kent Hrbek - 109.2 Buxton has multi-homer games 16 percent more often than one of the all-time great power hitters.

Captain America: Brave New World is not a good movie but the core message of, "When the president is a raving madman who will kill thousands and bring the country to the brink of war, the only solution is to lock him in a prison in the middle of the ocean," sure has some current resonance.

My daughter started making this annoying “Wah” sound when she doesn’t get her way that reminds me a lot of Waluigi’s “Wah” sound. So, now, whenever she makes her “Wah” sound, I Waluigi right back it her. This makes her mildly upset, which only makes me want to do it more. youtu.be/ouq9rVFJNDk?...

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

This assumes Moran’s thoughts were slapdash and not the careful considerations of somebody who has spent months working with the people involved. Like, what’s the point of having professional White House reporters if they are not allowed to learn about the character of the people they are covering?

No shade to Dan, who's been great on this story, but every article about the Twins sale since Ishbia dropped out has sounded like people in (or tied to) the Pohlads trying to drum up more interest that may or may not be there. I'll believe it's happening when the contracts are signed at this point.

I’m relatively new to the whole Menard’s ecosystem and, we all agree that the 11% rebate is total bullshit, right? Like, it is the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five and you expect me to print a form and mail it in to get $3.50 back on my gutter supplies? You should have an app for that.

"I can't tell you what hotel I stayed at last night, but I can say there were two trees involved."

How far we’ve come.

The Minnesota Twins just played a game where their 5-9 hitters were Ryan Fitzgerald making his major league debut, Kody Clemens, Royce Lewis, DeShawn Kiersey, and Christian Vazquez, none of whom were hitting above .208. Not only did they win the game, it was their 12th consecutive victory.

I regret/am pleased to inform you that the Urban Wok, which has been “Coming Soon” to 48th and Chicago for approximately 27 years is no longer coming soon.

There is a very subtle and clever Keanu Reeves joke in today’s NYT Connections puzzle and I hope the author knows I got it and liked it.