It looks like Vizquel’s first steal of home came against the Tigers’ (ex-Brave and Red Sox) Steve Avery, which is probably the one you’re thinking of given Avery’s very deliberate mechanics when coming set. Omar also swiped home against Greg Smith, another LHP.

Exactly. The delay steal of third is extremely effective at younger levels and it’s almost entirely done against the catcher. Having a LHP on the hill helps, but if you get the proper read and jump on the catcher, it’s simple to swipe the bag against a RHP, too. The combination of vigilance and skill as players rise…

Paul Millsap and Rajon Rondo, too, plus Rudy Gay if one feels generous and J.J. Redick/Thabo Sefolosha if you want to get really generous. But, yeah, the dropoff is immediate and brutal. Five UConn players get picked, only one of whom really looked like an NBA player in college, is still a bit of terrific, though.

Thank you. My parents went through a contentious divorce when I was young and even though my mother did her best to hide the details from us, it was not hard to understand that my father had been adulterous (he returned from living overseas with a woman that he’d later marry...and divorce. Rinse. Repeat.) and had…

Theese (like cheese) man. The current pronunciation is actually correct if you go by Germanic roots, but many names we altered to make both “ei” and “ie” be pronounced “ee” rather than “i.”

Have not once heard them even allude to the 99% likelihood that Dustin Johnson garnered a six-month double-secret probation suspension (since the PGA is a joke in this regards) for using cocaine. Meanwhile, they joined in the water-carrying pro-USGA bashing of Billy Horschel after the reigning FedEx Cup champ rightly…

Tack on the seven win and eight point differential during the regular season, plus 3-1 season series, as well. I don’t think that any more evidence is needed that TB was definitively better than Detroit this year.

Agreed, but he’s listed as a first baseman on the ballot, so that’s not going to happen.

No Re2pect

Prince Fielder plays first base like a bear with a flying pan tied to its paw, so this is hardly a crime.

I sure hope that the press corps doesn’t have the audacity to ask him about it after the game. I mean, how would that benefit the Cincinnati Reds, you know? (Aside from Price again going off and the team having a manager who isn’t totally unhinged...)

Still waiting for ESPN’s on-air apology for their serious error in judgment when it comes to the continued employment of Darren Rovell.

Wrong school, too.

Beat me to it. The highest that his energy level reaches during any of those contests is when the booth has to read a promo for The Masters - A Tradition Unlike Any Other (TM, assholes).

Printing screw-up on Wesley Person’s jersey.

And in that division, there will be no margin for error, meaning a lot of attention will be turning to Denver come trade deadline.

It’s not about Wisconsin getting hosed, but the fact that any team could get screwed in this moment that’s the issue. Save for the intellectually dishonest fanboys/schadenfreude practitioners who will make shit up to excuse results that they want, I’m fairly certain that the subset of people annoyed that the Badgers…

At this point, it’s as though the folks in Bristol are actively trying to find ways to make their programming less watchable. May they and the NFL, each “too big to fail,” meet the same fate.

You shouldn't. They could've fixed that without fucking up two dozen other aspects of the website, though. If forced to pick between the two, I'd much rather have to take a second to switch off the audio/video on a navigable site than not having autoplay on a website that is a jumbled mess.

Exactly. Also, I'm not sure how Barry got a screengrab with an actual list of top stories, but I haven't seen that since the launch. If I want to scroll past two dozen bubbles with pseudo news, videos, and tweets promoting ESPN programming, then I can garner 1/10th of the info that was readily available by simply…