First you say he’s too good for the minor leagues, then you say he should be playing for the Blue Jays. Which is it?

In all seriousness, I do wonder if that’s the same gun Craig James used to kill five hookers at SMU.

For those of you caring about spoilers, the book is just about 14 years old now. Isn't the moratorium for spoilers the immediate 10 years following release or something?

You might want to rethink your assumptions about SABR. From this SI article, Trout is valued at between $40 - $60 million per season over the next 6 seasons.

NOPE TIME FOR BASEBALL

Richie?

Yes, please. Only Richie and his friends are allowed to hate.

Fuck football.

Yep. If you're going say things like "I'm a professional" or "this is my job," then the locker room is your goddamn workplace, and there are a shitload of laws prohibiting this kind of garbage in the workplace.

That's exactly the WRONG way to think about this. You can't measure this in a relative way to other locker rooms. This is awful behavior. No one, in any capacity, should ever have to put up with this shit.

Ahh, "context." Because doing any of these things would be fine as long as other people in other locker rooms are doing them.

I'm waiting for the morons to start talking about "toughening up" and "that's how locker rooms are." Abuse like this is uncalled for, unprofessional, and archaic.

Altitude training is a must for distance sports. The US SPEED skating team is who's doing poor. Altitude training improves endurance, not speed. I'm guessing the fault lies on Under Armour (who has never been known as an actual competitive manufacturer) and the training regimen.

You've obviously never spent any time at altitude to understand the benefits of training at it.

Those athletes, who among them include the female WR holder in 1k and the top ranked men's and women's skaters, have probably included altitude training in their respective programs for their entire careers. Altitude training is one of the reasons they are Olympians in the first place. I won't argue with you though,…

Dropping in altitude "leading up to the games" would negate the effect. Your body responds to high altitude by making more red blood cells, which carry oxygen to your muscles. When you drop back down in altitude your body responds by reducing your RBC count back to normal. So you want to stay at altitude as close…

That is good coaching actually. Go look it up. For track athletes & long distance runners especially, training at altitude is essential and typically done at least once per year. Unfortunately, my college didn't give a shit about us on the cross country team, so I never had the opportunity to do it properly, but it…

I think the outdoor training was based on an expectation of the Sochi venue's roof collapsing.

Well, altitude training is standard aerobic practice for any event. I'm less sure about the indoor/outdoor differences.