It really seems like there is a culture of abuse in gymnastics that goes beyond predators like Nassar. I hope physical/emotional abuse gets the spotlight it deserves and that abusive coaches are at a minimum run out of the sport (since depending on what exactly they did, criminal charges may be too much to hope for).

Slot machines aren’t rigged because there’s no need for them to be. They are designed so that over a long period of time they will return very close to the expected payback. The casino neither needs nor particularly wants to “change at the last minute to make sure [you] lose.”

Arrieta is interesting because he’ll be 32 and he’s gone from an all-time great season in 2015 to a very good one in 2016 to a good one in 2017. He should still be a decent to good pitcher for some length of time, but it’s not a sure thing that he’ll be worth $20M next year, much less 5 years from now. And word is…

I don’t have an issue with 6 years of team control per se, but I agree that there should really be a provision for extremely valuable players to get paid more right away.

It seems weird to go in harder on high-spending teams who wish to avoid the luxury tax at its most punitive than on teams like the Pirates and Marlins who are nowhere near the tax threshold and who are openly dumping salary without even obtaining fair value in return.

I don’t see the wisdom of conflating teams that are cheap and refuse to spend at all with the sudden downturn in 30+ year old players getting big free agent deals. Maybe the smart teams who are trying to win now are realizing that giving $20+ million a year to guys who have statistically already peaked is directly…

There’s a distinct difference between tanking to try to obtain future assets, and just flat out giving up good players for nothing because you don’t want to pay them. The Marlins and the Pirates are not doing the same thing as the Cubs and Astros, and it’s no coincidence that the latter have won World Series.

That delay of game penalty...I don’t think I have ever seen one called that late. Normally it’s blown dead immediately.

Aaron Rodgers has a better career passer rating and ANY/A. He’s also suffered under a coach who has blown some playoff games that they really, really should have won, and a dumbass front office who’s too proud to add high profile free agents during their championship window. Brady has only played for the greatest…

He doesn’t need all that. They gave him an EDUCATION, and that’s more than payment enough for putting his life at risk on the football field.

Lombardi is a regular guest on a show I listen to, and when they were talking about looking for a new coach he basically said that you need a head coach who’s more powerful than anyone else in the organization including his bosses. He backed this up by pointing to Belichick and the Patriots, conveniently ignoring the…

I’m not defending this idiot at all, but why is a player’s water bottle kept in a place where a fan can mess with it? Apart from this, which is bad enough, someone could poison it in an attempt to kill someone, or put PEDs in it in an attempt to get a player to fail a drug test.

I had a single dorm room in college that had a sink. God, was that convenient. Never had to get dressed to go down the hall to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

First, Keenum was ranked 1st in DVOA and 4th in DYAR by Football Outsiders. His 2017 season was outstanding. If he was a rookie or had a few good seasons under his belt, nobody would be shocked to see him here; it’s his past bad performance that makes it shocking. Could he go out on Sunday or in the Super Bowl and…

I know we live in an era where teams feel the need to make a PR statement about everything, but it seems kind of silly that they feel the need to wag their finger at him over a speeding violation.

MLB is juicing balls to induce more hits and scoring, which makes the games take longer. They want to make the games shorter by introducing rules that only restrict pitchers, not batters ...logically, that would further increase offense at the expense of pitching, lead to more scoring, and make games take longer.…

I would say worse. The desperation to obtain a good QB would make teams overspend on mediocre QBs even more than they do now.

“Once I got pregnant with my daughter it was like, ‘Change has to come.’ With minimum wage, I was getting paid like nine dollars [an hour] at the time.”

Also, eating five sandwiches at once is probably not a good idea, unless you’re such a glutton that it constitutes a typical meal for you. I’m guessing his body rebelled from the overload as much as anything.

I’ll go one further: even though young children can’t be blamed for eating laundry pods, their shitty shitty parents sure can for not watching their kids and keeping dangerous items away from them.