It was observed to me the other day that the list of position players that the Mets have on the DL right now (Cespedes-Wright-Duda-Cabrera-Reyes-Lagares) are the best players on the team. With the possible exception of Neil Walker (and, I guess, the new guy they got from Cincy - Jeromy Burnitz or whatever), I think…

This is obviously an episode of terrible judgment on the part of the coach, but still, it’s pretty impressive that an athlete from the D-III NCAC even made it to the Olympics.

Drew you shoulda had the stones to make this entire post just that one fucking picture. It says it all.

LOL. Mostly scientific.

1. Drink a cup of coffee.

Come on, Barry. I would much rather see A-rod play than sit, but to say the Yankees aren’t playing for anything is disingenuous. They are 4.5-games off of the second wild card and they have, according to Nate Silver’s blog, an 8% chance of making the playoffs. Is that great? Hell no! Are they going to make the…

Yeah, but pick up any book geared to second- through fifth-grade readers. It’s not pretty out there. The landscape between Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, and other books you can read to three- and four year-old kids and the stuff that kids can’t really handle on their own until sixth or seventh grade…

Holy shit this takes me back. I am going to go out and buy every CYOA book for my kids immediately.

1. It would be difficult to know less about women’s gymnastics than I do.

In communist Russia, state dope sponsors you!

There it is

Yeah, but your Skyline Chili takes and burns will live forever. That’s something to be proud of, my man.

This is not an unfair comment; I certainly don’t think US citizens deserve a pass, but you are right that we are probably a lot quicker to wag a finger when people from other countries do it.

And for all the eye-rolling this site does at hand-wringing and moral grandstanding that the sports world loves to engage in when it comes to doping, It’s hard for me not to relish King’s defeat of Efimova.

The Sporting News just published a pretty righteous take-down of this “forgettable SportsCenter anchor,” too. The whole thing is worth a read, IMHO, but this is the best part:

But seriously if they had just issued a press release saying that - oh, I don’t know - the Colts won 23-17, would anyone have known the difference?

“Bob Costas? Ew, gross.”

I have an admitted blind spot for the Mets, and I defend them around here pretty much every chance I get, but you are right. It is just fucking unreal. The Mets have had at least five players THIS YEAR who tried to play through injury, sucked as a result (harming the team in the process), and ended up missing time…

Meanwhile, the Yankees are doing everything humanly possible to improve A-Rod’s golf game.

I take Carmelo everywhere but he follows me home.