Oh, these takes are bad. Just pointing out that unlike 95% of guys producing bad takes on TV, he’s not an ex-athlete or professional talking head who has no qualification for giving them in the first place. He was once very good at putting into practice exactly what he’s now giving takes about.

Contrarian take: Polian built the early ‘90s Bills, then he took the Panthers from expansion team to NFC Championship Game by year 2 (with a free agent super team that quickly imploded their cap, granted) and then he ran the Manning-era Colts during endless 10-to-13 win seasons. He’s lost his fastball, and you can say…

Five perverts who just saw the HR director walk in with their files.

This is pretty much a truism of life. Nobody judges the ethics of an event in a vacuum. People side with whoever they like/relate to more, regardless of the facts of a specific dispute.

When your head coach is an insufferable hardass who also happens to look like the sales manager of a 1990s tri-state Ford-Lincoln-Mercury dealership, he probably needs to do better than 1-7 to keep the locker room.

I know someone who works very high up for the Houston Astros, and have made this argument to him. The problem with filling the stadium/ballpark with dirt cheap tickets kills your ability to sell *any* tickets at premium prices when people can just wait it out until you panic. The guys who paid $175 to sit behind the…

The problem with NBA/NHL arenas is that they’re identical. Same distance from the court, same capacity, same court dimensions.

Players celebrate 15 first downs a game by impersonating the referee.

It’s like they’ve never seen a diamond in the flesh.

The idea that being mugged is clearly more traumatic than having a person who once swore to love you forever nuke your life - even if you totally deserved it, within the marital blame game - is absurd.

I won’t wade into the identity politics of the “middle aged white man” stuff.

To be clear, not blaming the wife. But being “fired” from your family and having to seek refuge in your childhood bedroom, though far from rare I suppose, seems traumatic as fuck, even if he deserved it.

Seems like a pending wife-initiated divorce had him living with his parents and in a really bad frame of mind. No excuse, of course. The dude needs help.

The Freeze pitch, Cobb County, GA, spring 2017:

As always, hard to tell whether LeBron runs the Cavs or the latest random white guy in a suit who LeBron has the power to fire if they go back-to-back years without a title.

Where do Zaza’s kids go to school? Seems kind of weird that they would be targeted outside the San Antonio-Austin metro area.

I knew you lived in Texas from your posts. I’m here, too. How about admitting our state has terrible employment policies designed to give the rich guy an unregulated playground, and not being part of the problem by glorifying it? Fucking Stockholm Syndrome.

What kind of asshole is like “I bagged your leaves, granted your newborn child is still in intensive care, but where’s my fucking thank you blah blah Larry David joke blah blah etiquette nonsense”. I hope that dad’s baby is fine, and then he immediately gets new friends.

Trumbo was the free agent they signed instead of Bautista for the same OF/DH role?

Next, you’re going to tell me he’s not a real King.