Am I the only one who thought Colby Rasmus took up meth during the offseason?

Full disclosure: I am a Nationals season ticket holder. I truly hope this is a change of scenery thing for Ian, because last season he kept digging his hole deeper and deeper. His plate discipline became so poor that I swear to God I thought he might swing at a pitchout. He responds very poorly to being under…

for the love of gosh

“Fuckin’ shithouse!”

STRENGTHS: Shows good size, potential for growth, gets solid extension

And to think, I was certain he was going to say that he went to Harvard.

I agree completely that it’s unlikely, and that it’s best to simply negotiate a mutually agreeable compromise through collective bargaining. But I still thin kits’ bad form/unwise for Manfred to frame the issue in such a pronounced way, as far as potential liability is concerned.

Yeah, that’s what I really meant, that baseball could be headed down a collusion-oriented path over the course of time if this keeps up.

An opt out that the owners collectively might not want to grant.

Serious question: should Manfred made that statement against opt outs? Could it expose owners to the kinds of collusion cases they dealt with in the 80's? I mean, if it looks like owners are artificially preventing players from exercising their full rights in being compensated, be it monetarily or in the form of…

vanilla offense

But what if my true love IS...

Which other Gawker site do you read most often?

Ah, it’s cool. Hope you have a good weekend.

Alright. I gotcha. That’s cool. (Short choppy sentences used for particular emphasis.)

What do you think about, “but what you do is none of my business” rather than “but what you do, it’s none of my business”?

Which is fair, but you must tolerate a certain bristling on my part at being called a POS by someone who knows precisely one thing about me.

Then I shall leave you feeling both morally and grammatically superior.

Although a semicolon might have been best.

Wrong again! A period is at least as acceptable as a comma in that situation.