Jesus, this is goddamn wonderful.

That's good. +1

If it's any consolation, that's quite a funny image. Throw one back for me, buddy, and here's hoping your little gal is A-OK, and no flatter for wear.

Hell, dude, it's like the fourth already. I've got two boys: when they're not playing hopscotch with contagious illnesses, they're gouging each other's eyeballs out. Eventually I hope to one day take one of them to the ER and tell the triage nurse I want "the usual."

Well, I'm certainly no connoisseur (I just said to my wife, "I dunno, just go for a relatively inexpensive reposado or añejo, and we'll see what we get"), but I'm enjoying it.

I do! It's not changing my life or anything, but it's quite tasty. Even with the disc of past-its-prime lime I put in it.

Thanks, bud. He'll be fine - even now, you'd never guess he was so sick 12 hours ago. But man I am gonna drink tonight. OH YEAH HE GON DRANK.

Today I had to take my friggin' little kid to the friggin' emergency room - nothing too major, but a couple days of high fever and vomiting had left him severely dehydrated, which meant that I had to hold him down so the nurses could stick a big awful IV catheter in his arm. Nothing quite like watching your child's…

+1

Also, can I just say that the notion that a Cabrera MVP award which disagrees with the advanced statistics is a repudiation of "nerds" is hilarious? We're talking about baseball, here: I don't think there's literally one single person in any sector of this discussion who could credibly deny being a nerd. More…

Please understand that the point I'm making is not that Cabrera should have won the award (although your "arbitrary 3 statistics" assertion is a bit reductive: he also led it in slugging and OPS, and even if he'd come up short in RBI, it seems extremely likely he'd have still garnered a ton of votes by winning the…

Not so. For example, as you might have guessed, I am both A) a baseball fan, and B) perfectly happy with the messy way the MVP is awarded. As are, evidently, a healthy majority of baseball writers, who after all just gave the MVP award to a guy whose objective claim to it is disputable at the very least.

Well, hang on a second. HR and AVG are not arbitrary categories, even by the reckoning of SABRheads. And while RBI is completely and utterly useless as a measure of a player's overall baseball excellence, it is very good at telling the story of a completed season (which, not totally coincidentally, is what the MVP…

I mean, isn't the whole idea of the Most Valuable Player award that the voters are supposed to subjectively value a player's contributions as they see fit, and that out of that heterogeneity, a consensus will form that reflects a player's season having been transcendent enough to satisfy different standards? …

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to be a dick, but shouldn't the goal of any show be "to make a quality show"? Or, at least, "to balance our commercial interests with our integrity and dignity"? Come on: ESPN's not gonna go bankrupt if First Take commits itself to covering the actual relevant sports stories of the…

Jemele, all of the major sports seem to have their stupid-yet-infuriatingly-persistent little maxims - you know, the pearls of conventional wisdom which, when held up to even the briefest scrutiny, are revealed to be either baseless superstition or bald sentimental hogwash. In the NFL, for example, there's, "Defense…

I'm looking at the diversity, efficiency, and reliability of his overall post game. Which, I'm happy to admit, manages the feat of being both maddeningly specific and maddeningly vague at the same time. If we were talking about something as discrete as, say, his left-handed hook shot, then one could go, "Oh, no way,…

It's only bonkers if you think I'm saying he's a better player than those guys. He's not. But I do think you can (or at least it's fun to try to) divide out the component parts of a game and say this guy is good at this, that guy stinks at this but is a better player, etc. Eddie House is a fucking atrocious…

West has a slick pivoting up-and-under that draws a ton of fouls and nets him a fair number of layups, and he can hit a baby hook with either hand. It ain't Hakeem Olajuwon, but those are distinct, identifiable post scoring weapons, and that's a heck of a lot more than you'll get from Al Horford.