The NFL and NHL have hard salary caps, so it seems like their rankings are just going to be a straight-up measurement of franchise success, which turns this exercise into stating the obvious. A glance at single-league views for those two seem to bear that out, especially with hockey where the top 4 teams on this…

I agree that the Golden Knights are not the real thing. I would've ranked them 18 also.

I fail to understand why the Hall of Fame voters are faulting Bonds for giving up his moral principles in order to drum up a little fan interest.

An observation about the sample: of the red-colored states, only Illinois and Missouri have baseball teams (Kansas City is of course technically in Missouri). The state property of "having a baseball team" is so strongly tied to population density that it would probably take a more fine-grained analysis to figure out…

I like this joke. +1

That is hilarious. +1

The Mason Punchers may be from a small town, but they've got every Catholic in the state of Texas rooting them on.

They had reports that he is capable of defeating several opponents simultaneously.

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"Shove an arrowhead in my eye socket? Now there's an idea!"

Halbfinger also describes the 1/15 of Thing that I own.

Kate Beaton is only catalyst to me ever learning anything about the War of 1812.

Why they stink is not quite as clear.

We didn't lose the War of 1812.

On the difference between Pullman and Lubbock:

And in case you're wondering, they're clasped. Hooks aren't allowed in hockey.

I think all these circadian rhythm effects can be attributed to a self-intimidation factor, caused by a learned subconscious dread. For the closer one is to sleep, the closer one is to another visit by Nightmare Ant.

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Also coldly inevitable: heat death of the universe.

YES! +1