Same reason you'd go to the driving range - to practice for the main event.

Based on his definition of "funny" I am going to assume Samer Kalaf is a huge Big Bang Theory fan.

To make things right, they should let the little girl who got hit fling a bat back at Boesch. To make up for the height and weight difference though they should let her use one of these bats:

Uh, once you slice the lime couldn't you just put it one the reverse (i.e. dull) side of the knife to squeeze it, so that the blade is facing away from you? You're done cutting; there's no reason to keep pushing your fingers towards the sharp part of the blade, unless you're an idiot.

I agree with this so wholeheartedly I just got whiplash from nodding so vigorously.

Are you pointing that out to Sunshine Lynch or to the authors here at Gawker who couldn't identify the proper form of a homonym to save their lives?

That's the joke, dummy.

Same with Mordecai Brown.

"You don't like children? There's something wrong with you!"

Didn't you crossfit kooks already appropriate the word "fitness" for all that?

The thing is, by any reasonable definition of "athletic," it really does.

In my experience people who become particularly evangelistic about a workout activity (whether it's running, swimming, or, yes, Crossfit) tend to suck at real sports.

It's just human nature - some people can't handle doing things as an individual and latch on to whatever group they can. Same foundation for membership in every cult ever. Except instead of "enlightenment" this one offers "fitness".

But then it wouldn't be Crossfit, it would just be gymnastics training and they couldn't brand it as such.

I seem to have soiled myself. How embarrassing.

But taller players (those who were at least 6 inches taller than the 6.5 foot mean)...

I would also like to register my curiosity about this particular issue.

Well, you can probably get really good odds on a potential collapse (nowhere near 500-1, but probably something pretty solid), so hedging actually sounds like a great idea. Of course if you collect on the hedge, I don't see how you could avoid telling Rory what you did; it would be in all the papers.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean that the U.S. team did that. I don't know where to find the possession % stats, but German completed 4157 passes compared to our 1676. I was thrilled with how the U.S. team ended up doing, but I definitely felt that maintaining possession was an area where we could have improved…

It's not impossible at all - it just means you're spending a shitload of time and energy chasing the ball.