Every MLB team is rolling in dough, though. Even the “poor” ones with the small payrolls.

The Mets’ “financial difficulties” are bullshit. They seemed to convince themselves that they couldn’t afford Reyes, and thus never offered him a deal, but I’m certain that if he’d been willing to settle for less money ($80 million, $100 million, you’re filthy rich either way), he could have easily found a home with…

I can’t feel bad for Jose. He chased the money to go to Miami while knowing that pro sports is a soulless business, and he didn’t get a no-trade clause when he signed with the franchise that’s known for blowing it up either after winning or when things don’t work out.

Yeah, effort is a little much to ask from Jose. As for the second baseman, well, yeah, he could have tagged the dude, but there’s no unassisted triple play anyway, so might as well throw it if you’re into that sort of thing.

Yeah, how does he not go for the unassisted triple play? It was right there for him.

And here’s what was actually tweeted

How would that not be an error? It was hit right at Castro and he straight-up muffed it.

You’ve done better.

He looks like Sad Hulk.

Saying “there’s no strong correlation between firearm availability and homicide rate” is fucking insane, do you understand that? It is anything but logical. Here in the United States, we have the highest per-capita gun ownership in the world. By far. Like, the #2 country isn’t even remotely close. We also have, again…

Little-known fact: Charles Barkley was born Vester Lee Barkley.

I was at the game for this last night, and yet I can’t stop watching it over and over.

It’s like talking to a wall with you people.

Wow, he looks a lot smaller than he used to; that’s the polar opposite of his contemporary Pedro Martinez, whom I was just watching on MLB Network. Pedro’s head looks like it’s been inflated by a bike pump; Bonds looks like he’s been deflated.

Unless you’re proposing that people are going to start using explosives in place of guns, I don’t see how “a shift in the tools used” would be anything but positive. The problem with guns is their ruthless efficiency. Knives, swords, cars and the like are far less efficient tools of murder.

The vast majority of black-market weapons were originally purchased legally. Cut their legal availability and you cut into the illegal market drastically. While I agree that criminals don’t care about gun laws — to some degree — quite a lot of our gun deaths come from weapons that were purchased legally by the person…

Well, for one, there are 30 times as many guns as there are illegal immigrants, and guns can be easily hidden in places where they don’t need, you know, air or food or water or toilets or jobs. People are considerably harder to hide than stuff.

I like your optimism, but still, 300 million guns. And most guns are built to last — with proper care and maintenance (and most avid gun owners surely already own whatever they need to maintain their weapons), they’ll kick around for decades yet, if not longer.

Oh, we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying — but if the gun-loving public doesn’t buy in (and they won’t), it’s basically a lost cause. There needs to be a significant culture shift before that kind of thing happens.

There are as many guns as people in this country; outright banning them is nearly impossible. Unfortunately, we need the general public to buy into any meaningful gun control, which means we’re all fucked.