This asshole is basically the entire St. Louis Cardinals organization made flesh.

It astonishes me how easily full-court presses make so many teams fall in a total heap. Especially purportedly elite Div 1 teams. It’s like they’ve never seen one before.

Yep. I’d lock him up on excellent money but only until he’s 40. So if his performance falls down a mine shaft at 38, 39 it doesn’t handcuff you forever. I love Bautista, and love what he’s done for the team, but you just can’t give him anything resembling 6-7 years, $150+.

Not sure I can love a comment more than I love this one. Well done.

I’ll bite. Lloris, Kane, Eriksen and Alli. Maybe Alderweireld, too.

Vaguely related, has someone done a study into whether basketball teams (at least at the NCAA level) are more effective coming out of a timeout as opposed to just playing out a possession? I know Williams is copping heat for not calling a timeout but teams with the ball (at least in the college game) often come out of…

Agree, it belongs in the pantheon of ‘Mom’s Basement’ wisecracks for uncreative and unfunny people to feel creative and funny.

I have family in the U.K. and a cousin was explaining to me why the English national team is so crap. It’s a soccer mad country with one of the world’s elite competitions, they should be awesome. But he said the players, and even the fans, just don’t give a shit. People are more aligned with their clubs than their…

That’s between two. But yes, the dating culture/chivalry was keeping me broke.

This is so true. I should have said that having money can bring you happiness, but it’s finite. On the other hand, the misery of not having money and all the crap and stress that goes with it can seem infinite.

This is exactly my situation and it’s taught me a whole lot, too. I was paycheck-to-paycheck for 15 years of my working life and then hit the lottery and found a job that paid me three times what I was on. The freedom is extraordinary but also terrifying, as you say. I nailed my student loans and got those out of the…

Groan! Yep, I meant century. I’m a colossal idiot. Accept my colossal apology.

Quoi? No, LA, is more south than Kansas City, which is more south than Chicago, NY and Boston. Sorry this was so confusing.

Lower/more southerly. No?

They are also the second-lowest (geographically) AL World Series champion this decade. Such mediocrity.

Also, with the AFL grand final dash, the fastest guys to qualify are often fringe players making the league minimum or thereabouts. So the chance to strut around on the sport’s biggest day and make 5 grand is pretty compelling.

I could definitely be talked into this too but what exactly was the extent of Jordan’s debts that not even the richest athlete in the world couldn’t pay them off?

I think most of them are bonkers and yet I’ll be the drum major for Oswald Didn’t Act Alone until I die.

When it pertains to who gets ahead and who doesn’t in the U.S., then yes. Race has to be brought into every discussion. Were you born yesterday?

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