This is the best thing I have ever seen.

If barao is just going to plod forward in a straight line like last time, he’ll be toast again. At least he knows what to expect.

Nathan I love your recaps for the shear narrative style of it all. It actually makes me interested in watching MMA, that is until I realize that I’m not really into watching sports. So, kudos to you.

Yeah, this is about as good as a free TV main event (and even co-main) as you will get. I’m really looking forward to this one Saturday night. Dillashaw and Barao are two quick, excellent athletes, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fight goes all 5. Either way, these guys don’t stall, they don’t back up, *should* be…

I am so excited for this fight. Nathan, I really like your UFC/MMA articles.

I saw Suikoden II and assumed it was your article. I love it that you’ve harassed your coworkers enough that they’re finally playing it. Do you have any insider knowledge as to why Konami finally released II & III on PSN? I never thought that I’d see III on anything but my PS2.

Someone say Suikoden II?

Oh my god read what I wrote.

It’s more of the football coaches Cowherd was giving the love to. I summarized Bomani’s point clumsily there. That’s the point, that football coaches — overwhelmingly white, are the sooper geniuses. Baseball has a lot of Latino managers, so, in Cowherd's world, it must be easy.

I agree with most of what you say, but this

It was a gift from someone I like and respect. Felt obligated to give it a shot.

You lost me at the part where you read his book. I am hoping the backstory is even more tortured than the average ER “How I got this stuck in my butt” tale.

I know that several posters have said they met him and he’s a nice guy. But, I read his book, and in the very first pages he says something like, “My Daddy always told me to be honest and speak my mind.” That’s the lens I view him through. He says that as though its a virtue in itself, utterly divorced from the…

I lived with a guy who had a masters from Johns Hopkins and his doctorate from Stanford. Yet he couldn’t understand the difference when a ball hit in the stands was a foul ball, and when it was a home run. So just because you are book smart or have academic abilities, that doesn’t mean you understand baseball or other…

Not only did he express this sentiment is a racist way, it’s just flat out wrong.

Pretty much what he ended up doing, while also providing “facts” from international reports to back his claim. In his mind, if the Domican Republic ranks 122nd internationally in education, then he must be right to call them dummies.

Bomani Jones teed off on him on his radio show last night (heard the podcast version this morning)

Look, if you people had just grown up in a stable family with fathers, you would understand the point he was trying to make.

His decision to take too long to do something is actually a gesture of solidarity with baseball.

The fun thing about him claiming an entire nation of people are simple-minded is going to be watching him go straight to the “sorry if you didn’t understand my brilliant point” nonpology without realizing he’s making it worse.