You'd probably really like soccer, too. Especially international tournaments.

Hey before we get to praising Weld’s bold words, this is the same Bill Weld who shut down many of the mental hospitals in Massachusetts. His Randian ideological blindness forced thousands of patients to live in the streets with no care, support, or direction. This from a guy who comes from a Boston Brahmin family, one…

Nah. Birmingham is a mid-table Championship side. The way this is headed, Villa is going to pass through the Moon Door’s Moon Door in short order.

San Jose’s top line, according to Joe Thornton: “Pass - Shoot - Score.”

Self-righteous tech jackass needled by self-satisfied blogging jackass. Tell me, Wysh: which Sedin does the scoring again?

I want to know who he calls “Gray Goop.”

For what it’s worth, the Polo Grounds had RF/LF distances of I think 440' and 447' but the fence was flat except for the notch in center. This means Mays caught that ball at one of the closest points that a near-home run could be hit from the plate: probably in the 420' range. Impressive, but not at all irreplicable.

Coyle is a real nice player, but the trade that brought Burns to California was highway robbery. At the time, it wasn’t even the Brent Burns trade: it was the Devin Setoguchi trade. Since then, he’s done that thing star players on the west coast do, where he quietly becomes one of the best at his position while…

This might be dumb, because I don’t know California law at all. But here goes:

Biznasty is maybe the closest comparison.

And yet on a shot-per-goal basis, he’s still completely mediocre (by big club player standards). I get that he’s a heart-and-soul, hard-working scorer and all that, but he’d flounder in a lot of other places.

They’re not just not growing, they’re losing subscribers at an alarming rate. Not just ESPN, either: many cable-cutters have switched to online-only options.

I eagerly await tomorrow’s point-perfect statistical analysis on the history of NBA draft lottery outcomes from a millennial who still can’t get anyone to hire him.

Who the hell is James?

In the mid-90s I think NESN aired Australian Rules Football. As a kid, I never had any interest, but I did watch it one day when I was home sick from school (because the remote was too far away).

That awkward spin-around put a lot of pressure on his knee. I thought from one angle that he buckled it, but other angles looked cleaner.

Poor guy got Kronwalled.

He’s been injured and off his game all year and finally showing some flair. But as a Chelsea fan, even when he’s on his game he’s maddeningly inconsistent. How many games go by with nothing from him through 75 minutes, followed by a take-no-prisoners attack where he carves up a back line like he’s taking out the trash?

Umps might kick some dirt on the plate to show the manager or player that there’s no way the plate was touched. Or more likely, it’s a rebuttal to the opposing manager who swears on his life that the kid didn’t touch the place. If the dirt is still in place, the player didn’t touch it. If it’s got a footprint on it,…

The Preds do have a lot of counterpunch in them. But they’ve also drawn two of the most prominent perennial playoff disappointments: a Bruce Boudreau team and the Sharks. Whether the next round sees them against Dallas or St. Louis, you’ve got to consider them heavy underdogs. Even before that they’ve got more…