At Twinkie Town this week, I did the usual Monday news reset, which I find I am enjoying because it gives me an excuse to be pessimistic. I can’t do analytical, but I can do curmudgeonly, and I’ve been doing so every Monday morning this week. Cathartic, you know?

Just to show I haven’t stopped being silly, though, I also made up 15 little-known things in the new baseball CBA. This led one commenter to call me a hero in German, and another to tell me I was stealing jokes from “I Love Lucy.” The Twinkie Town commenters are just the best.