As a longtime New York Jets fan who has nothing but bile for the New England Patriots myself

Apparently “Bortles” means “Marino” in British English.

Betts never slowed around 3rd; he must’ve figured that the play at first would be close and there’d be a slight delay before the throw home. Once Votto had to stretch for the throw the Reds had no chance of throwing Betts out.

Yeah, his lifetime OBP is .298 so his speed is somewhat wasted.

The whole game was crazy like this; Betts scored the winning run from second on an infield single.

Just wait until he takes that quarter out from behind Tyrod’s ear.

“Unsportmanlike Conduct, number 58, defense. Said “PSYCHE!” to the opposing quarterback.”

Haha, no. Polian rules came in a couple of years later.

Guess the NFL should Tuck that Rule away.

Those 4 guys could have easily avoided being fired if they simply stood 5 feet to Jeter’s left. He’d never get close enough to fire them.

Darren Lewis

Seth DeValve knelt for the anthem earlier this season too, with a bunch of his black teammates. He counts, even if he does play for the Browns.

No, of course not. The NFL games are most easily found, of course, and a lot of the focus on NFL players with CTE has been on guys with longer careers (Mike Webster, Seau, etc). Hernandez only played 3 years.

He only played in 44 career games and still had severe CTE. The NFL isn’t going to like this one bit.

I can’t wait for Eli’s book to come out: “Success From Eating Paste: the Eli Story. 125 Paper Mache recipes!”

Now do that for walks.

Yes. All home grown too. It’s been a pleasure to watch.

No, Mookie’s actually better. RF in Fenway is enormous and very, very difficult to play well. Mookie plays it great.

If Kap doesn’t fit into this system, that should be seen as a positive.

Yeah, the Manningham one. It was a great throw, to be sure, but Manningham had 2 guys draped on him and managed to haul it in while getting his tiptoes down. It was pretty unlikely, considering he was their no.3 receiver. This isn’t to take anything away from the players themselves, but just an acknowledgement that…