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I found this to be a bizarre aside in a remembrance of Norm Macdonald by Rob Harvilla from The Ringer: Bad-faith assholes eager to say the worst, most hurtful shit they can think of were always eager to claim him as a truth-telling warrior, but that’s the greatest dishonor of them all. His philosophy was never Say anything. Hurt anybody. Fuck you if it hurts you. He took comedy as far as it would go, and your full-body cringe was guaranteed, but he took you with him.

Photo Credit: Eugene Emeralds | Gary BreedloveWe’re into the There R Giants Top 50. Over the winter months, I’ll write a post on each of the fifty players in my rankings, leading us back to the much-needed spring. Our list of previously covered players is getting a little long, so from here on out I’m moving the links for the full list down the bottom of the post. I’ve never really been the “gritty underdog” fanboy type.

The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee joins me to talk about the Giants’ incredible pitching experiment, the “two timelines” theory of Giants’ roster construction, and exactly how much is on the line in the coming year. You can (and should!) read all of Grant’s great work at The Athletic, and follow him on Twitter for the jokes and record collection talk @GrantBrisbee. You can follow me on Twitter @Rog61, or on Notes here on Substack, or become a There R Giants’ subscriber to get all of my work delivered straight to your Inbox.

There are a lot of little black spiders on this planet, and the vast majority of them pose absolutely zero threat to humans. But then there’s the black widow. Identified by a red hourglass on its abdomen, the black widow is easily one of the most recognizable and most feared arthropods (insects, arachnids, and other invertebrates). And not without reason—black widows have a powerful neurotoxin (called latrotoxin) in their venom that can kill a human.

In February, I took a seat at the bar at PDT. I was there to try the new hot dog created by Bill Durney, the owner of Hometown Bar-B-Que and Red Hook Tavern. I was working on a story about fancy bar hot dogs and the Durney dog looked like a likely candidate for coverage. PDT owner Jeff Bell soon posted up at the barstool beside me. He had a proposition.

We’ve been here before: Almost six years ago, I wrote a Deadspin article where I tried to get to the bottom of the arguments about the true attendance of WrestleMania III at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. I had long felt that though it was obvious that 93,173 was a made-up number from WWE, the turnstile count of roughly 78,500 that Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer got from local promoter Zane Bresloff and later WWE proper didn’t feel like it fit, either.

Covid 19 was a Pentagon biowarfare attack,designed to disprupt China's booming economy . It also initially killed a number of elderly Politicians in Irans Parliament. It was introduced into Wuhan during the International Military Games on Oct19, 2019, coinciding with the Chinese New Year and the large movement of Chinese returning home for the holiday China previouslY suffered Swine flu, Avian flu ,MERS, and SARS1. With a relatively small grant from Fauci, the Lab at WUHAN was enmeshed as the suspected source.

Hi there! Many of you subscribed to my newsletter because you saw my pizza adventures with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt on Instagram last week. I’ve known him for a long time, and when he said he was coming to Chicago for some thin-crust party cut pizza research, of course I told him I’d meet up. I showed him around the South side for a day and apparently that got everyone way more excited than I’d expected.

Amazon Prime is featuring Smokey and the Bandit (Universal Studios, 1977) in tribute to Burt Reynolds, who died this past week at 82. I was 8 when the movie came out, and I remember coming home from summer camp and going to see it in the theater with my childhood friend, Steve K. We counted the cuss words in the movie - I remember that we emerged from the cinema telling our friends that there were 76 bad words uttered in the film.