Ok, fair enough. First tier it is. It's interesting that more people took issue with my characterization of Jimbo Fisher as second-tier than with my (mildly dickish) critique of the piece as a whole. #themoreyouknow

There's nothing wrong with a good old-fashioned rant. And I don't care if it's more emotional than logical. I'd just like it better if it wasn't the same rant I read last week (and the week before that, and the week before that . . . )

But Jim Fisher is not among the first tier of personalities in the sport (compared to, say, Nick Saban). He is a "second-tier sports type." I think the parenthetical got in the way.

The only problem with these screeds against second-tier sports (and sports journalism) types is that each has to be more hysterical than the last for there to be any way to differentiate them at all. Every one of these columns boils down to:

We-EEEEE are NEVER ever ever ever . . . gonna win a championship with these two.

or "gamer" is used to indicate virginity and loneliness.

I live on the east coast, pretty much always assumed this would be the answer, and fuck all am I incredibly jealous of the west coast set-up. Having football on at 9:30a in NY this morning was tremendous (albeit a game I could give two shits about). Having this every week — and, bonus!, watching the "late"…

So it would be fair to say that this proposal to mess with the draft lottery has been put on ice?

Giants players, privately, circa. January 2008: We have about as much chance of beating the Patriots as we have of catching an African virus deep in the heart of Texas, AMIRITE?!?!?!

I definitely had the same thought. I don't think just anybody can do the we're-not-related-but-we're-cousins bit. Is it cool now for all of us to just make fun of black people? Not in a racist way, but in like a, hey, let's admit that there is some funny shit about whites and some funny shit about blacks. Has the…

"Who the hell is Brian Hoyer?"

The amazing thing is that Eli was totally fine, walked off the field without any help, and made it to the Meadowlands in plenty of time to lead the Giants by the Falcons.

You are absolutely right. Now, if only the Cardinals and their fans didn't hold themselves out as special or different from every other team and fan base in sports, your point would not only be correct, it would be relevant and good, too. Alas, it's not, so it's not and it's not.

+1

Yeah, you're right. That was a terrible example but it was still a good point, IMHO. I didn't realize that Jordan made $33m in the 1997-98 season, which is higher than anything Melo is getting even without adjusting for inflation. (By the way: think about that for a second . . . Jordan made $33m seventeen years…

In response, hundreds of Ravens fans took to Twitter to accuse Flacco of denigrating Ray Lewis.

This is fuzzy math, no? It compares today's NBA deal — which is based on today's valuations and market — to numbers that were agreed upon when the parties were using older data. It also prices all the way out to like 2027, longer than the current NFL deals extend. Isn't your headline akin to saying that the Knicks…

Your cable bill will increase a couple of dollars a month solely because of the NBA.

The Tigers and the Angels are my biggest fear as a Mets' fan. The Tigers won 90 games, the Angels won 98. The Tigers have one of the best hitters in a generation, the Angels (arguably) have two of them. And, as Barry noted in the piece, the Tigers had Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander and David Price to throw out for…

Meh, what's he supposed to do. He gets a piece in the WSJ to defend his shithole of a city and he can hang it on his wall or call some donors (BIG BATTERY has deep pockets) and tell them LOOKEY WHAT I DID.