You are...absolutely right, MT. I was being pretty thin-skinned, feeling like Mr. Petchesky was talking about Pujols as if he were Pelé, slumming it down with the NY Cosmos after 18 years at Santos. Your take is definitely more likely than mine, and is probably correct.

racking up Fine Season after Fine Season ingames played after most of the country has gone to bed

I regard Kareem with a respect that borders on hero-worship. I believe that Magic’s combination of compassion and will to succeed is unprecedented. And I don’t think the world will ever see someone with principles as unshakeable, or who will accomplish the impossible as many times, as Ali.

UN-DER-STARRED! (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!)

Gotta say, buddy, that not mentioning any catch-phrases from the greatest hoops announcer of all time, Chick Hearn (and it’s not even close), was an error. The dude invented terms like “dribble-drive,” “airball,” and “slam-dunk” (or, as Chick would say, “SLAAAAAAM-DUNK!”). Leaving out his “this game’s in the…

To paraphrase Micheal Che, Gohmert and Jordan using the troubled past of some of the accusers as a bludgeon to impugn their testimony is kind of like looking at someone you molested when they were a child, and saying “boy, did you turn out weird!”

Yup, yup, you’re right.  But she got the WWE to spring for usage rights money to keep using it, something they rarely do.

With you so far, but she somehow convinced the WWE to spring for the $$ to use the song as her ring music, too.  And the WWE rarely does that.

Well, her choice of MMA trainers pretty much proved that, didn’t it? But she either got the WWE to pop for the cash to use the song, or someone at the WWE realized its value-to-cost advantage.  Either way, someone was being smart.

We are pretty much into Dunning-Kruger territory here: that special category known as the unjustified confidence of a mediocre white man.

Unwritten Rules FTW!

Whaaaaaat? Dafuq did I miss that??

Yeah, you’d def. have a point, had Mr. Thompson not admitted that he pretty much imagined/inferred/erroneously deduced the existence of the flip, based on the crowd’s, and his own, exultation.  Dude edited his post after I asked if I was just missing something.  No way you could’ve known for sure though, so good…

Holy shit, Rousey comes out to “Bad Reputation?” The last wrestler I can remember who did that wasTed DiBiase in his good—real good—Mid-South days, when he was a skinny young ring psychology master who was known for loading his glove with a metal plate, walloping you upside your fool head, and then slapping on a…

With you so far on the bullets-to-Repubs approach—I cannot conscience throwing in with the strategies of James Earl Ray & co. But I have to split with you on the application of fistic justice to the gangrene that is the alt-right.

I feel you, Mr. Thompson. In your honor, I offer 3 different bat flip moods:

Huh. Maybe MLB scrubbed the frames from the clip to avoid having a bunch of joy-hating unwritten-rule enthusiasts from screaming their lungs out in outrage?

Sooo...If the police are white people’s cousins, then that means that security guards are white people’s play cousins, right? I mean, I feel like I’ve got this Blackonometry proof correct, but I may need to have someone double-check my answer, because Professor Cedric isn’t holding office hours right now.