never mind the sexism, which i guess is just part of the Simmons package

I strongly suspect that spite is a significant factor in the Pelicans wanting to make the Lakers sweat for it. Especially considering how seemingly every superstar is trying to force their way to Los Angeles. I bet that the Pelicans feel like they’re a small market team being bullied by a large market team, and are…

Part of what makes The Big Sleep’s plot so unpredictable is that there’s a pretty good case to be made that Raymond Chandler sort of lost track of it. It was his first full-length book and he cannibalized a couple of his short stories to put it together. Some plot strands didn’t quite get resolved in the end. When…

Are we absolutely sure it wasn't Lil' Penny who said that? 

Being as it seems they’ve shown that controversy won’t deter them from signing a good player.....If only there was some other controversial free agent who played a position that they actually have a desperate need at!

Bryce Harper is, for reasons entirely unclear to me, a notable exception to the rule. But yes, 99% of the time, its a black or brown guy. 

For one or two plays a year where that matters you’re gonna pass up one of the best 5 players in baseball? This is silly. 

This game has me thinking: A lot of people upset about player safety rules are like “the game is gonna become flag football where you can’t play any defense”
Considering how much this game rocked....would that even be bad? 

I think this is almost entirely a show put on for the media. Any GM unwilling to sign a perennial 6 WAR player who hasn’t even hit his prime yet because of one interview should be fired, and out of a cannon. But once some columnist makes a big deal out of it, suddenly everyone in baseball has to play along with this…

I haven’t paid attention to hockey since 1999 and this is the first hockey headline in decades that made sense to me

I think the most fascinating part of this whole thing is learning just how much of a piece of shit one human being can be. 

after muttering “who?” and smiling, Eli Manning thought to himself “damn it feels good to be a gangster”

You know, except for making it to the Stanley Cup in their first year. That should buy some loyalty. 

If Nazis love families so much, where did all of mine go during World War II? 

Just to emphasize how bad Davis has been, here are the lowest qualified slugging percentages since 1900. The only hitters below Davis are from the dead ball era. Let me repeat. The only hitters I’m baseball history with a worse slugging percentage than Chris Davis right now are the five worst hitters from the dead…

Yeah, my (Orthodox Jew, have a lot of ties to the area) reaction to that news story was “of course its fucking Beitar.” They are absolute scum of the earth. Think of how messed up you have to be to fire bomb your own team’s offices because they signed a Muslim. Just the fucking worst.

It’s crazy that not only did he last until pick 13, but he was traded for pick 24. It’s almost reassuring to know that the draft process hasn’t been made foolproof yet

Kenan Thompson as a barely disguised Kendrick Perkins ftw

Last year I actually took an hour out of my life to calculate the collective batting average of current MLB managers against Bartolo Colon. Would have to update it to exclude Ausmus and Girardi and include Kapler, Cora, and Boone and possibly Lovullo but I did do it. It’s those three, Matheny, Counsel, Roberts, and I…

I feel dumb for asking but who’s the deceased 5"9 guy, because I googled to make sure Allen Iverson isn’t dead