Are you suggesting that if the French had been armed to the teeth, less people would have died? Because the 5,000+ gun deaths just this year (which we’re not even halfway through) in the US disagree with you. All you have to do is look at literally any other country in the world to see that gun laws do in fact work.…

Thought it was somewhat ironic of you to mention “It’s amazing how many people in this country have never actually explored...” etc. It’s also amazing how literally the entire rest of the world seems to not murder its own population constantly when you make it very hard to own guns. But you’re probably right, a bunch…

Anyone else think it’s wildly inappropriate to have a banner for winning a wild card spot? “Hey guys, remember the time we absolutely barely made the playoffs? Let’s commemorate that with a big fuck off banner.”

Enjoying things from your own youth is one thing, but grown adults reading Harry Potter is largely unprecedented on this scale and I have no idea why it’s not looked down upon more. If there was a 900 page Sweet Valley High tome, it still wouldn’t be OK to read it if you’re over the age of 12.

could not possibly star this harder

Yeah I’ve always stuggled with this...I’m a Georgia fan, so my natural enemies are (of course) Alabama, Auburn, LSU, and Florida, and to a lesser degree, Ole Miss, Miss State, Vandy and Tennessee...but I hear a lot of people, after their team is beaten or knocked out of a tournament, cheering for a rival team if that…

Sweet lord, thank you Petchesky for a hockey story...two different series ended yesterday in dramatic fashion and still we have more stories about goddamn video games than the hockey playoffs. I realize it’s only the first round, but with all the overtime, the fact that the Leafs managed to do even half decent against…

Um, no, it’s not alright, whatever. Even if the other team did do something bad to your team, throwing a baseball at someone’s head (or hands, or really anywhere) could potentially end their career. I don’t give a fuck what they may have done, man up and win the ballgame to make them look stupid. Throwing (literally)…

Absolutely, by a country mile. And the level of control they have over the outcome of games -with essentially no oversight- is unbelievable. You watch any major tennis match, and they can show you down to the millimeter where the ball hit, when it’s moving as fast or faster than a baseball, but MLB pretends like it…

Very impressive HR but wearing 99 is lame and a cry for attention. NYC, Edmonton and indeed the world already has a 99. (NFL players are excused due to their number being partially set by their position and the fact that JJ Watt wears it; because it always serves to remind me that as much as he’s sort of an annoying…

I’m the first person to call out millenials for being offended too easily but this article gave me none of that sense at all...in fact it seemed to confirm what most of us have known or at least suspected all along; rich white assholes who play a rich white asshole sports are trying to protect the last, pure bastion…

Hear hear to that...I’m a lifelong Red Wings fan, but sadly never got to see a game at the Joe (all the hockey road trips were to Toronto, but if there’s a silver lining, I did see the Wings at Maple Leaf Gardens twice, which despite housing the worst team ever, is a stone cold hockey church if ever there was…

“They think that once you turn 50, you are old and miserable and your body is falling apart and you are just a huge burden so you should just die.”

“Why do people wish their kids Happy Birthday on Facebook?”

Alrighty fair enough re: minutes, but you have to admit that a hockey game is far more strenuous, not to mention the fact that they’re wearing a bit more than a sleeveless shirt while they do it. Yes, they only play a few minutes at a time, but during that time they’re going damn near sprint pace for much of that time.

Lol well played.

Ahh and there it is...the last bastion of the untalented and unfunny, the “you wouldn’t get my jokes anyway, dummy!” T minus 5 until “I know you are but what am I.”

Talk to me when there’s a guy who’s specific job it is to keep shit OUT of that net and then see how hard it is. Getting a ball in a basket is far, far easier than getting a puck in a net...cause well, hockey games don’t end 74-96. Even if every basket only counted as 1 point it’s still not even close.

NBA season are also 82 games. But I agree with you, see my post.

First of all, very well written and balanced take, so kudos for that...sometimes that seems to be lacking on these sort of sites. BUT one thing I have to disagree with is boo-hooing about the number of back to back games...NHL teams play generally the same number of B2B games (both leagues average about a dozen or 14…