This isn’t news. Carlos Beltran basically confirmed this to A-Rod in the postgame show.

The Dodgers should bring in Scottie Pippin to instruct their pitchers on the art of not tipping.

“Quit lookin’ at your stupid VORP spreadsheets and learn to grip a damn baseball, you fucking pansy.”

Off My Chest/Unpopular Opinion (ahem):

Dear Santa,

You shouldn’t believe everything that you read, that’s how you wind up with a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve.

In all honesty as a person who does some social media management professionally (not my main gig, but I do run two corporate consumer-facing accounts) it will not hurt them. This kind of irreverence and snark is what most people are attracted to now. Earnestness doesn’t get likes and retweets, sass does, every time.

There’s a perfectly innocent explanation for this whole situation: he just wanted to ask Durant if he knew how to get to Temecula.

What is the connection to the Chicago White Sox?

For real. Get off the floor with your bullshit prayer circle.

Remember the Beach Boys. They fired their father for making stupid decisions that cost them a lot of money.

I’m torn here. On the one hand, I want them to be successful at this, to make the NCAA pound sand and show others that it makes more sense than going to college if the end objective is to be a professional basketball player.

Is Peter Thiel giving them each $100,000 to skip college and innovate new ways of missing 12-foot jump shots?

Yes, we do.

Hot (maybe lukewarm) take: I like hockey better when there’s true villains. Sure, Sidney Crosby might come off as one if you’re not a Pens fan, but you really only hate him cuz he’s a really good player. Guys like Tkachuk, Pat Kaleta, Claude Lemieux, Brad Marchand - now those are guys who you could get your ire up…

I think of myself as a fairly progressive, upstanding person but Matthew Tkachuk is the kind of player that makes me yearn for the days when someone twice his size would have fed him his lunch out there on the ice every time he pulled one of these stunts.

8/10 power stance. Would thrash again.

“Hey Jimi! It’s your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Hendrix. Remember that new sound you were looking for? Well listen to this!”

Did you read your own article? Because it’s all about how when sweet little Brian hears a no, “the negotiations begin.” Which is exactly what date rapists do, and you’re helping. Fuck you.