If Hersheys started making candy with nicotine I’d probably want it banned, even if they tried to market it as a smoking cessation aid.

I agree with your basic point, but air is 78% nitrogen.

Probably the dumbest thing in recent DC history was making Barbara Gordon Batgirl again rather than letting her remain as Oracle, one of the few truly original characters of the past thirty-five years. I flip between this and replacing Wally West as Flash with Barry again.

I don’t mean to say that Greg Schiano is right about anything, and it’s different because this was a tie game and they were within threatening distance of scoring, but there should probably just be a signal to the refs of “hey, we’re going to run out the play clock” rather than the whole kneel down thing.

It reminds me of the whole “don’t make trades within your own division” thing: for GMs, the fear of coming out on the losing end of a trade with a rival >> than their confidence in their own ability to succeed while doing the same.

That’s part of it for sure, but there’s a clear institutional inertia going on with the general team philosophy as well. The Giants are stuck in the old “defense wins championships” and “pound the ball on the ground” modes. The former has some merit (at least to the extent that offense also wins championships) but the…

The pony is that Jones will likely be so earth-shatteringly bad that it might get Gettleman fired.

Changing Triplicate Girl’s color scheme from white/purple/orange seems very, very wrong to me.

+1 Makoto Nagano

I never thought about it before, but Vontaze Burfict really is a pretty good Star Wars name.

Can we all agree that the Judeo-Christian god’s idea of what deserves to be punished and what that punishment should entail is kind of crazy?

Naah, I’m going to use the What-If Machine. Machine: what would it look like if Peter M. Smith had dug up the Fry “Shocked” gif?

Here are Kimbrel’s comps through age 30:

You’re right, broadly speaking. But Wins? Really?

OMG this is so good +1

I’m legitimately tempted to change my name to Mark, learn karate, and move to Philadelphia just because of this paragraph.

As an organization, they just need to Sif through their available options and find something that works.

I’m pretty fucking old and the Rangers have never had a prospect like this in my lifetime. The closest was when they almost traded for Lindros the first time.

Craig Kimbrel is in no way a future Hall of Fame reliever. He didn’t have a particularly good case before this year and his WAR is actually going down.

Seriously. I just flipped through his twitter for a minute and he’s basically Tebow. But yeah, he’s not just toeing the line. Good on him, at least in this instance.