I love this.

"Liar! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I'm really enjoying the mental picture of last night's meet-up that is emerging. It basically just turned out to be you and fat-leaveher on a date, didn't it?

Dork. +1

I don't see how it could be anybody but Steve U.

Ha!

[facepalm]

Jesus goddamn Christ. That's got to be the most disturbing video in living mammary.

C'mon. There aren't enough cabs for splitting, either. You're talking about having nearly every cab in the entire city crammed into the not-particularly-traffic-friendly area immediately around the ballpark just as tens of thousands of drunk baseball fans file out. You're also talking about having tens of thousands…

Awesome.

OK, but don't you think the Nationals are safeguarding "getting theirs" by shutting Stephen Strasburg down to preserve the health of his elbow? Regardless of whether their course of action is the A1 guaranteed best possible option, there's no denying that their motive for doing it is to preserve his elbow so that…

I don't disagree with your point that it's not in the Nationals' interest to protect Strasburg's interests: that's precisely what I'm trying to say. Where I guess we differ, then, is where I'm absolutely opposed to any course of action that prioritizes a massive corporation getting an ugly gilded trophy over…

No, this is nothing like that. The Battle of Midway wasn't a television spectacle fought for the sake of selling advertising and enriching a bunch of billionaires. The Battle of Midway was a battle in a war in which millions of people died. And the USS Enterprise was a fucking boat, not a young man whose entire…

If Strasburg pitched through his innings limit, was a workhorse in the playoffs, and the Nationals won the World Series, but he did permanent damage to his elbow and saw his career shortened by it, that would be the worst outcome possible. The important number to note with Greg Maddux isn't how many World Series he…

The problem with this line of thinking is that the ultimate metric for the success of an approach to dealing with a young pitcher coming off of Tommy John surgery isn't whether he's available and pitching well (as Kris Medlin presumably will be) this October. It's how well the health of his arm enables him to have a…

Guh. Nothing more dreary than those gotta-fight-somebody fights. The Ward-Froch story has already concluded.

I won't miss him too terribly.

Well, sure. He's never looked like he's particularly motivated to be a great (or even especially successful) boxer. But I doubt he could really have troubled Ward tonight even if he'd fought like his head was on fire. Ward's just such a better fighter, and I can't penalize Dawson too much for having the good sense…

Good call by Dawson. He was completely worn out and had nothing to gain by hanging around to get punched some more.

Just wearing him out. Toss out the scorecards.