Agree entirely, he should be charged with that, too.

That's what's happening to Green right now, who is on his seventh team in seven years, and was in the D-League just two years ago

Thomas responded by saying it's not his job to pump anyone's tires, won a Cup, went crazy for a year, and woke up in Florida, as tends to happen.

Kessel, who is media shy at the best of times ...

Someone get Chris Broussard some smelling salts.

I wish you the best too, and if we learn anything from the Jonathan Martin bullying, it's the importance of talking about it and reaching out to people. Men still have this sense that bearing pain and stress alone is somehow the "manly" thing to do. Which is stupid. Women are way more evolved on stuff like this than…

Tangentially related: It's time for SI and everyone else to start naming some sources. I get that anonymous sources are a part of journalism. But at the moment, the anti-Sam faction is composed ENTIRELY of anonymous sources. And that's bullshit. If these guys are so sure he'd be a distraction, that he's over-rated,…

This is bang on. I think there are going to be parallels here to integration in college football. You'll have teams that resist drafting gay players until they get sick and tired of getting beaten up by teams that do. And then they'll abandon all this "locker room distraction" bullshit.

If you think Smart would react that way to a bland, generic slur like "piece of crap" you must have been born yesterday.

Yeah, I was spitballing a bit. Indonesian and Russian are two of the weaker ones there. Portuguese is a good one since it has ties to Europe and South America. Hindi would be another good one. I did German for three years in high school and still can't believe it was even on the curriculum.

Why in God's name would you teach a kid German? They speak it in one country. Spanish, French, Mandarin, Indonesian and Russian would all be 1,000 times more valuable as a professional adult.

Thank you for (I think) enunciating the position of the readers on this. There's been so much outrage on this site, by the readers and authors, about what they're against that it's been hard to discern exactly what they're for. So they're for, for example, letting in the steroid users into the HOF because they hate…

Yeah, people seemed to jump to a bunch of wrong conclusions from my analogy and that's one of them. I was drawing the analogy through Bonds, because he is a steroids cheat, and through Bonds, all steroid cheats. That's it. Guys who didn't take performance enhancing drugs - specifically steroids - who are good enough…

Thanks, that's a reasoned and thoughtful argument. If guys took them - at any stage of their career - that to me is a red flag and I wouldn't want them in. But I hate that a guy like Biggio (Piazza too I guess?) got turned away today by implication. That is some bullshit. It's like the sportswriters protected the…

Totally agree and if I've fucked up anywhere here today it was saying "PEDs are cheating" and then having everyone pile in with other examples of cheating (past and present), as if I (or anyone) consider doing weed, or stealing signs, the same as taking steroids.

I think that's it, too. And maybe Deadspin needs to take a position on that, as well. They've been railing against the voting process and "scary, scary drugs" for so long but what is their exact position on how the voting process should work and what the Hall of Fame should stand for? I have an answer on the second…

Well, they didn't get the similarity between 'Cheater (Drug User) Makes Hall of Fame' with 'Cheater (Plagiarist) Makes Dean's List' so I guess it's not a smart crowd.

Am I being trolled? I'm sure I'm being trolled at this point. If you can't follow the similarity between 'Cheater (Drug User) Placed in HOF' and 'Cheater (Plagiarist) Placed on Dean's List' I honestly give up.

Lebatard was talking about the eligibility of Barry Bonds for the HOF. And my point was: Rewarding a guy who is a known drug cheat with inclusion in the Hall of Fame is like rewarding a plagiarist with inclusion on the Dean's List. How is that hard to follow? I'm mystified why this has stirred so many people up.

This'll come as a shock to anyone who thinks I'm a pompous asshole if they read down this far but I'll cop to being way too simplistic when I said "cheating is cheating." If I said that? I must have, I guess. If I said "PEDs are cheating, ergo all cheating is bad, no cheater should be in the HOF" that is wrong.…