Here's how you know St. Louis sucks: they wouldn't have been the most-hated team if the Yankees were in the playoffs. And would you ever catch Bill DeBlasio writing a column like this in response to that? No. You wouldn't. Only St. Louis is stupid enough to try and lord their baseball success over you and then…

Raul Ibanez... am I doing this right?

I hate - HATE - Derek Jeter. If Barry's last 20 years have been defined by rooting for Jeter and his Yankees, my last 20 years have been defined by passionately rooting against them. And I will tell you this: Derek Jeter is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, it IS a slam-dunk case, and you're completely nuts if you think…

So in other words there's absolutely no consistent standard whatsoever. Kind of like the NFL!

I just love what these polls reveal in state-specific terms. Who doesn't want Peterson reinstated? Packers fans (who hate the Vikings) and Patriots fans (who were playing the Vikings that week). Who doesn't agree with the decision to suspend him again? The South, where beating your kids is A-OK.

I think the mere fact that ESPN - a significant partner for the NFL - is allowing people on its network to make any kind of substantial comment like this is pretty telling. One could be cynical and say that there's a level of "safe" criticism that the NFL is willing to accept and that's what we're seeing, but letting…

"So, Bill, you're sure that this video could have just fallen through the cracks?"

Yep, exactly. Just look at how Manchester United - who just a couple years ago had that insufferable blowhard Alex Ferguson huffing about awful it was that Man City were spending money while United were building a team from within, the "right way" - threw money around during this transfer window. Well, gee, it's…

If he's a 9/11 truther, his personality is probably not THAT awesome.

I'm willing to bet the NFL will be exerting some behind-the-scenes pressure to make that happen if they haven't already started doing it. They want this to go away BAD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_…, plus Jameis Winston's taste for crab legs.

Had the exact same thought. Glad I read all the way to the bottom before trying to post it...

You'd have to say Maddux and Glavine got the last laugh, what with them both going into the Hall of Fame while McGwire remains out in the cold.

Also, there's no way to deal with an unruly child other than "beat[ing] the shit out of" them.

He got the idea to root for an underdog after seeing his cousin Ronnie's success with being a Cubs fan.

I assume it's something boring like the iced decorations were endorsing the school which somehow counts as an impermissible level of recruitment effort. But anything involving cookie cake restrictions is bound to be stupid.

Is anyone surprised by this kind of behavior from Kirk Gibson? Because you shouldn't be.

My first thought was this would probably be another Wendy Davis situation - everyone celebrates but the win is only procedural and the law gets passed anyway. I do kind of wonder if this was a backdoor way for the government to get foreign aid donors off their back while being able to foist the blame for the law's…

I mean, 250 grand is pretty small potatoes in the baseball world all told. And not that many guys can throw 100 mph. If he remotely pans out it's the bargain of the century; if he doesn't it's less money than Joe Mauer makes every other game.

My understanding was always that he would likely have stayed in Chicago had the Cubs not lowballed him at first. As for Atlanta vs. the Yankees - in the 1992 offseason, the Braves had been really close to the 1991 World Series and the Yankees hadn't even made the playoffs since 1981.