I never realized how much I wanted a version of Lord of the Rings where all the characters have obnoxious East Coast accents until this very moment. The Hobbits could be from Philly, the Elves from Boston, the Dwarves from Brooklyn, etc..,.

Yeah, I’m going with “tanned.” He’s the George Hamilton of Pikachus.

Valerian was a fun movie but it’s weighed down by the lead not being terribly interesting. The whole sequence with Rhianna, starting with the “butterflies”, feels like it was lifted out of a much better movie. If the whole film had been like that instead of spending so much time with the dishwater dull “romance”…

I’m very disappointed that the trophy for the Duty Free Open isn’t a giant crystal Toblerone bar.

Wait, wait, wait... Timmy Lou Retton?! America’s Sweetheart? Does Bela Karolyi escort him to the ring?

I’m going to disagree on the tennis vs. baseball question. There’s nothing in the question that says you have to swing at the pitch. You can get the baseball in play by bunting it, something our test subject would have at least some chance of pulling off. You see pitchers who are otherwise hopeless batters pull this…

So, immediately after acting to relieve the sheer exhaustion caused by a game going the full length of overtime, something that has happened exactly 6 times in the last 10 years, will the owners get back to adding more games on Thursday and more overseas travel dates?

Rinku Singh has been plagued with injuries. Had a Tommy John and also broke an elbow so he’s only thrown one inning since 2012. Dinesh didn’t have much success and left the game. 

Bonds and Clemens became toxic and were effectively blackballed at the end of their careers. I don’t think it was collusion so much as it simply was that MLB simply didn’t have an owner willing to stick his neck out in the face of the steroid scandal.

You mean like the ridiculous change to intentional walks which will save, on average, a whopping 24 seconds per game while eliminating a chunk of possible strategy or entertaining happenings like a wild pitch or the batter managing to reach out and swat one that strays too close to the strike zone?

Or if you’re the proud owner of a Grand Am, you can enjoy that clicking noise randomly at any time for no damn reason at all!

“Whenever there is a strange noise in the newsroom, someone always asks, ‘Is that the Rats?’

Started with 1) dark green, 2) white with orange graphics, 3) purple, then got all grown up and boring with 4) black 5) silver and 6) black again.

Speed this up by 50% for the Abarth version.

That Taft is one bad...

Never knew the Demon Deacon was actually Mr Peanut sans monocle before. 

I tell ya, when I’m looking for some sports to watch on TV, A&E is right there in the top 100 channels I’ll turn to. Right behind QVC and just ahead of NatGeoWild.

Cumsox, that’s a marketing opportunity right there.

I’ll see your dislike for the Roman numerals and raise you a get rid of the stupid numbers entirely. Use the year like every other sport.

Glad to see the Left Shark is still getting work.