I have a similar fear waiting for the subway. I keep a good distance from the edge of the platform for fear that a lunatic will feel like shoving someone onto the third rail or in front of an oncoming train.

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t Steve Kerr hired directly from a broadcasting gig with no coaching experience? By no means do I think Gottlieb is a good idea, but it may have something to do with the thought process in Stillwater.

Bright side: He doesn’t call tournament games.

Guessing this was in reference to TJ Sport and Bahrain Merida? TJS lost their financial backing in China and basically almost vanished before the season started. They ultimately became the state-sponsored team of the UAE (much like Bahrain is).

Yeah, I’m talking about New England.

Indeed, and of those five, only one MLS team still plays in an NFL franchise’s stadium AND plays on artificial turf AND drew the smallest crowd to any game in the league this season (10,144) AND is NOW USING THE FAILED 2024 OLYMPIC BID AS AN EXCUSE TO NOT MOVE ON A NEW STADIUM DEAL FUCKING DAMMIT.

Curt is a special guy. The man who answered the question “which ESPN castoff is such a repugnant jackass that FS1 won’t give them a job”.

There is an unfortunate lack of great long-form content on Deadspin.

Ummm did you list off exciting Red Sox players with cool names and not include Xander Bogaerts?

God’s plan.

The story of how he got his name is actually hilarious (and does involve the Pistons’ Isiah Thomas). Very worth a read.

Does anyone else feel truly robbed that we didn’t get an emphatic “ONIONS!!!!!” at the end of this? <- Check that, we did. I’m dumb.

I had the exact same image in mind.

This is like a downscaled version of what led Boston residents’ upheaval of the Olympic bid. Few benefit, and they’re the people who are already swimming in cash.

And that’s just one state, and the just hte cases that have been reported.

There is one very simple reason I would suggest an athlete turn down a huge amount of money to play in China: It isn’t worth getting lung cancer at 40. The AQI in the cities, even the smaller ones so long as they have factories or are burning coal, is atrocious. No amount of money is worth that.

Does this one qualify as a conspiracy? I thought this was sort of established at this point. (I’m also an idiot so I may be way off on this)

I know posting anything pro-MLS here is dangerous, but the automatic 3 games for using the word is a great policy. It’s a slur, same as any other. Don Garber (or whoever came up with it) deserves credit.

Road season starts next week.

Yes New Years Eve will be so awesome watching college football through confetti, missing out is — [bullet impales brain]