Perhaps more than any other sport, the sheer sample size of a baseball game, of the baseball playoffs, of the regular season, make this one game completely insignificant from a statistical point of view. You can do everything right: draft the right guys, put in the right mix of veterans and younger players, hire the…

On behalf of Mets fans everywhere, I would like to extend a sincere thank you to Mr. Marchman for not filing this look back at Mr. Reiter’s 2017 prediction under LOLMETS.

I hear you and yours is a perfectly reasonable take. But watch him play out there, man. Do you think there is any chance this guy doesn’t walk the second he can go sign a max deal somewhere else? The Knicks suck. Timing is all wrong for KP.

There is a very reasonable argument that the Knicks ought to trade KP Right Fucking Now. Today. There’s a team up in Boston that lost a huge piece of their puzzle a few weeks ago and has draft picks to burn. The Unicorn puts them right back in the conversation in the East, especially because the Cavs.

It is hard to even think about how bad this team would be without Giannis. Like when you start thinking about the infinite nature of the universe - how there has always been something here, and will always be something here, forever - that is the closest analogy I can come up with to spending time reflecting on what…

I really can’t emphasize this point enough: This sucksfor kids, and for getting them to like baseball. MLB is fucking up, and it wonders why its fanbase is aging faster than the population. This is exactly the sort of series that could make a young fan for life, and they’re not able to watch it all because the most…

Catcher’s reaction to the Correa homer in the 10th was pretty intense, too. Never seen anything quite like that before, either. It could be mistaken for showing up his pitcher, but it felt more like he was mad at himself. Like a “FUCKMEFORCALLINGTHATFUCKINGPITCHINTHATSPOTGODDOISUCK”

Amen, Barry. The most indelible moment of the game for me was Puig’s reaction to not getting to the ground-rule double. He wanted that ball So Damn Bad and was absolutely scalding that he couldn’t get to it. And he made the glove pay for it. There is nothing more satisfying as a fan than to see a player who cares…

“We have taxes to share common burdens” is a true statement. The military, the President’s salary (/shudders), the Fed are all paid for exclusively by the federal government, even though there is a strong case that some of us benefit far more from these services than others.

ALL’S WALL THAT ENDS BALL

I needed a minute with this one, but it was a well-spent minute.

You are not the only to make this argument. And I get it. But what you’re really saying is, “the government should charge me for entry to the park in April, when I pay my taxes, instead of when I actually show up at the park.” It’s largely a distinction without a difference, except that the daily use fee shifts…

I have been to about half of the parks you mention as subject to the increase and I have to say, $70 seems pretty damn reasonable to me. You can spend hours — easily a full day — at the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, and I assume most if not all of the others, too. Watching the sun come up over Denali is about as…

This is a Locke for comment of the day.

Eli is the yin to Carlos Beltran’s yang. He has been maddeningly inconsistent for most of his career, pretty good sometimes but downright bad at other times, and he never, ever looks smooth doing it. But his performance in the playoffs in 2007 and 2011 was superb. He delivered - twice - when it mattered most. He…

T.Y. notes often make things better, but I guess not this time.

Sorry, Steve. I will try to be funnier and more creative tomorrow. And, thanks: without constructive feedback like yours, my comments would never improve.

He’ll be acquitted; the Nationals can’t beat anyone in October.

As someone who has stuck his foot in his mouth on this site before, I empathize. But you owned it and apologized; not much more you can do. It will blow over.

Every other Saturday morning when the kids are playing video games?