Awesome.

The interesting thing about Chelsea, as ever, is what would be considered a 'success'. I'm not sure anybody knows. Would 3rd place and a first knockout round be good enough? Maybe. But somehow Chelsea has gotten to be a crazier place than even Real Madrid.

The part I don't believe is that I've never met anyone that self-righteous who didn't immediately try to make it a huge campaign, rather than just casually discussing it with their sports-writer friend.

This is definitely a lie.

That's what I thought last year...

I still wouldn't put it past the Braves to lose the division to the Nats, who will then go on to win the World Series.

Ashley Young is one of the most notorious divers

I would almost certainly pay $30.

Oh yeah, I don't think we will be in contention. I merely mean that guessing about anything beyond 2018 with a country our size is a huge question mark. Maybe we suck, maybe we get 8 kids who are all world class coming through the LA and NY academies. There are 3 or 4 MLS teams doing really good youth work right now.

It's just a hurry-up offense, right? It's, like, what Payton Manning has been running for years but far less complicated. Am I taking crazy pills?

2022 will be contested largely by squads of players who at this moment are between 11 and 24 years old. Any sizeable country could have a golden generation in the same way Belgium has gone from terrible to contenders in 6 years.

Yes, because nothing Deadspin does is pushed by pageviews.

Who would win in a 2-on-2, best-of-3 futsal match:

I think the Vikings would have a better chance of winning if this actually was their playbook.

Yeah, I thought I was going to have to do it myself, but there's a chart in tfa.

I actually think the bench clearing was less about the stare and more about him spitting towards Johnson while rounding third. The two of them have previous.

In other words, because other people have it as bad or worse, we shouldn't care about an exploitation actively occurring.

Ok, yes, this is all good, but how do you wash an actual mattress when... some fluids... soak down through the sheets?

This is genius. Thank you.

their city is better than every other city in the world... that is NOT TRUE.