Dogs, Music and the Hall of Fame

Answering some BR questions as the dog days of summer begin...

The dog days, with apologies to Florence and, separately, to the Machine, are only just starting now, so let’s kick off our post-July 4th summer with some Brilliant Reader questions!

Let’s do a few short ones and then the biggie:

From Brilliant Reader Mike: If you were to get another dog, would you consider naming it “PAWSnanski”?

PAWSsibly.

From Brilliant Reader Tony: Over his last 54 games, Aaron Judge has hit 26 homers and driven in 65 runs AND has hit .390 (numbers updated). He’s basically been Babe Ruth/Barry Bonds AND Ted Williams. Has anyone combined this kind of hitting acumen over this long a stretch before?

I can’t do a full deep dive on this, but the first thing you do for such questions, obviously, is