The fact that this was even an issue to begin with also merits a 'Death to the NCAA' tag.

Exit Wounds wins everything.

Oh FFS, betting on baseball games as a manager of a team is "something non-baseball-related?"

Great to have you back, KT.

Just checked the standings:

"Who's your favorite player on New England?"

UMaine Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't

Sublime.

It's Jon Stewart. But, you know, dynamite drop-in there, thanks for stopping by.

Seeing the play-by-play of any argument on Twitter makes me want to bash my skull in with a stapler. People are the worst.

I dispute that that story means his performance-enhancing isn't in dispute. But leaving that side, I'm legitimately amused by the 'a whole bunch of cheaters are already in the HOF so let's put ALL of them in' argument.

1) People were being thrown out of their sports for steroids in the 70s. MLB, belatedly, has woken up about this (sorta) but if I'm a baseball writer I'm not using that to excuse guys who were blatantly cheating, and knew they were, whether it was written down or not. For a sport that prides itself on adhering to a…

This is because the Hall of Fame ritual has become, more than anything else, a way for an electorate dominated by neo-Puritan scolds, milquetoast handwringers, and straight-out dimwits to show how high its standards are by telling people like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Jeff Bagwell, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Mike…

I hope to God 'Krizilonski' takes off. It desperately deserves to.

I am more interested in preventing the next bullies then saving the current ones.

That was my thing, too: stairs. Fucking stairs. It took me minutes to get up and down them.

"God damn Uncle Sam's gonna take a big, wet bite out of his ass!"

Totally agree with this. Mathematically, a marathon is two half-marathons but the trauma the body sustains makes it feel more like three. The leap from doing halves to a full is not to be played with. If Pamela Anderson is telling the truth about her training, I can see her walking the last eight miles, if not more.…

+1

Yeah, I raised that elsewhere with someone else. There seems to be this collective mentality in baseball of eschewing the force out at 2nd (or 3rd or sometimes even home) in favor of going to 1st, and I still can't figure it out. I don't see the risk, these are elite athletes with finely-tuned throwing skills*. And,…