Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week’s collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week’s choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it’s 75 degrees F as of this writing)…

In the crush of stories about stadium financing, team ownership, and MLB’s general level of Scrooge McDuck miserliness, it’s been easy to forget that, had the Nats been able to put a few more runs on the board last year, Washington’s inaugural baseball season would likely have included a playoff run. Washington’s patchwork starting staff and heroic bullpen were ninth in the league in runs allowed, but the Nats were dead last in runs…