Dusty Baker thinks that Thibs needs to chill out with overworking his stars.

So is football, to be fair.

You’re a horse person?! I thought it was Deadspin’s official position to extend no olive branches to the crazy horse people (not Neil Young fans).

He botched the opening scoring chance, too, though it was much less clear-cut and egregious, when he slipped in the snow and the ball dinked harmlessly off his shin from about ten yards out.

If Senor Benjamin shows up on WWE television I will never say another ill word towards Vince McMahon.

Well, the reason is that so far, he hasn’t wanted to or shown an interest or effort in those areas of the game. Sure he’s still young, and sure he’s been on shitty teams that haven’t used him great, but his deficiencies have been known since before he came into the league.

You very well may be right, and the best-case scenario for any acquiring team is that he bashes the shit out of the ball for three years, opts out, and signs the old-man deal elsewhere. But if you’re a GM building a roster around him and his salary, you’ve gotta worst-case it and can’t assume that $30+/year will be…

They would, and they will. Chris Hansen (the other one) is leading a group that’s proposing to build a privately-financed arena by the baseball and football stadiums, and that’s the plan that the Bring Back the Sonics people, and, seemingly, the NBA, are more entwined with. Both Hansen and Durkan reiterated after the…

You’re right - our culture of sexualizing and creating body image issues in young women (a large portion of which springs from older men deciding in what way they want to leer at and think about fucking these kids) does no damage to the psyches of 16-year-old girls.

You sure he’s opting out? Stanton is great, but he’s played 150 games twice in eight seasons, and he’ll be 31 at option time. You think he’s getting more than 7/$208 from someone at that point? The team trading for him HAS to operate under the assumption that they’re paying 10/$285 for him, not 3/$77 (minus whatever…

The G-League team is rebranding in the offseason for their move to Wilmington - the perfect time to introduce the Delaware 1.787ers. Problem solved!

No, 16-year-olds aren’t kids, which is why our norms and laws for conduct involving teenagers is different than it is for young children. But they sure as hell aren’t adults, either - they’re several years INTO puberty, not beyond it, and that doesn’t even address their psychological adolescence, as demonstrated by…

At some point in your life, you’ve spoken to a woman older than 25, right? Next time that happens, ask her if she feels like at 16 she was closer to a kid or an adult.

This comment could have been made in 1860, 1917, 1960, or 2017, and we’d have no way of knowing. (white) American exceptionalism, y’all!

Thursday night and Sunday night football didn’t exist until 11 years ago, Red Zone and Sunday Ticket streaming (so people who don’t have DirecTV can still get the package) came onto the scene in 2009. Before that, each week you had your market’s game, then the three featured national broadcasts, which obviously were…

He’s a very different type of player, obviously, but he’s got that 2014 Suarez penchant for being EVERY DAMN WHERE all at once, and involved in every bit of movement and action on and off the ball.

No, you’re right. Philly doesn’t have more special claims to close-but-not-close-enough heartbreak than any other four-team city, but rather than pessimism, there’s a constant overrating of mediocrity that inevitably leads to rage when they fall short. It’s mostly endemic to Eagles and Flyers fans though; Phillies…

Oh absolutely. JR is as objective and critical of the WWE, even when not working for them, as Gruden is of fellow football coaches.

That CBS Sports link was from where negotiations sat a few weeks ago - Ken Belson at the Times is reporting that Goodell’s base salary will be $4 million/year, with 90 percent of the deal in performance incentives.

Watts no doubt helped the careers and bank accounts of several great black wrestlers, and in a pretty backwards-ass territory. JYD, Ron Simmons, Ladd, Reed, they would all probably say Watts treated them well and fairly.