Well, I guess I should say that I actually like RBI as a statistic. As a gauge of a player's ability, it's useless. But as a gauge of his achievement, it's great. And it hearkens to a time in baseball's past when stats were primarily used to celebrate what players had done - so that little kids could look at the…

I'm no sabermetrician, but I'd say that Runs Scored are a very slightly more meaningful gauge of a player's value than Runs Batted In. Only because it's at least theoretically possible for Runs Scored to be at least a little bit dependent upon both a player's ability to get on base, and his baserunning ability once…

This is great.

OK, but now you're arguing almost the exact opposite of "every team should play every game to win and that means taking every at-bat as though it could be the difference between winning and losing." You're saying a team can have other interests than winning this at-bat or even this game - interests like long-term…

Nice.

So, the only thing that makes watching professional sports entertaining for you is teams treating every at-bat/possession/whatever as though it could be the difference between winning and losing? That's it? Because I watch an awful lot of baseball, and there are literally thousands of at-bats during the course of a…

I like baseball; I like to watch it, and when I can, I like to pay money to watch it in person. That's as "real" as fandom gets. But the notion, suggested in Fighting Artichoke's post above and elsewhere, that fans (or, worse, "the game") are being cheated by the Adam Greenberg stunt is nonsense. Professional…

If you're looking for a culprit, I can think of a guy who's fairly well-known for taking Es and adding Ls: Chris Andersen.

Oh, stop it. They paid "hard-earned money" to watch a bunch of grownups in pajamas hit a ball with a stick. The notion that there's anything the teams could do to make that a more ridiculous thing to do is preposterous.

As you might imagine, not everybody in Bristol is enthusiastic about this. You can hear them muttering in the halls, all, "Whoa, what the fuck?" and, "Jesus, this is really disturbing," and, "Christ, Norby Williamson just ate a fucking baby!"

OH GODDAMMIT

Tony Romo: Oh, fuck, gross! Kill that fucking thing!

Ha!

Doctors initially suspected Coach Pagano's blood might have an abnormally high number of white cells when Bill Simmons suddenly started rooting for it.

This is an honest question. Would it be worse to have the Jets go down in flames with Sanchez at quarterback, or to have them pull the plug, go with Tebow, immediately turn things around, make it to the playoffs, and lose in the wildcard round?

Captain Jack Sorrow

Captain Suck

No disrespect to that song, but this song still shatters my skull all these years later.

Canned argue with that.

Oh man. Sorry to hear it, and sad for your little guy.