Stick to baseball, 12/12/15.

Paste published my ranking of the top ten new boardgames of 2015 this week, as well as my review of 7 Wonders Duel, the new two-player game based on 7 Wonders.

I wrote a lot for Insider this week, reviewing signings and trades. Here’s the full list:

Jason Heyward to the Cubs
The Bethancourt/Kelly trade
The Brett Lawrie trade
The Walker/Niese trade
The Kenny Giles trade
The Adam Lind trade
The Cubs’ moves with Zobrist and Castro
The Shelby Miller trade
The Jay/Gyorko trade
The Carson Smith/Wade Miley trade
Hisashi Iwakuma to the Dodgers
Jeff Samardzija to the Giants
Zack Greinke to the Diamondbacks

And of course, there was a Klawchat this week.

And now, the links…

Comments

  1. Top five favorite SNL commercials not listed: Chameleon, Crystal Gravy, Compulsion, Love Toilet, Bass-o-matic.

    In the vein of dumb kitchen gadgets, Alton Brown reviews some (via A.V. Club and Daily Dot)

    http://www.avclub.com/article/alton-brown-reviews-amazons-dumbest-kitchen-gadget-229612

    • I skipped some earlier ones that I only saw way after they originally aired – Little Chocolate Donuts, Shimmer, the Bass-o-matic, Swill.

    • Gay Schmitt’s, Excedrin for Racial Tension Headaches, Chia Head, Homocil, Shimmer, Taco Town…

    • Old Glory robot insurance

  2. Keith, on your list of great SNL commercials you forgot Happy Fun Ball and Big Red.

  3. Not sure if you want yet another theory on the gun control debate, but this piece from The Weekly Sift has an interesting take on the idea that guns provide security. http://weeklysift.com/2015/12/07/guns-are-security-blankets-not-insurance-policies/

  4. Went to Acheson’s flagship restaurant (5&10) in Athens last week. The braised pork ribs with crispy kale and ginger kimchi and the frogmore stew combined to comprise the best meal I had all year.

    • I wish I’d had a reason at some point in the last few years to go to Athens. I’ve only been to Empire State South, which is wonderful – and now the main barista there, Dale Donchey, has opened Spiller Park Coffee (with Hugh) in the new Ponce City Market. So I’m dying to get back to Georgia.

  5. Hi Keith,

    I read a question on your klaw chat about your favorite book about parenting but I can’t seem to find it. What was your go to book on being parents?

  6. Favorite SNL not listed: The series of Dean Witter commercial parodies, called “Grayson Moorhead Securities”. So great.