This is the zenith of exit velocity non-sense. Wow! A 4-6-3 double play!

He really was 69th! Someone must have fielded their way up or something.

Brandon Belt’s career .994 fielding percentage is also good for 69th all-time.

This is a good take. I’m interested to see whether The Ringer sinks or swims for some of the reasons you mentioned. Simmons certainly thinks he’s capable of running a “content media” power. The market seems to think so. ESPN, though they got rid of him, seemed to have given him almost boundless opportunities to do new…

RGIII is the Johnny Manziel of throwing footballs.

I’ve been a fan of Simmons for years. I loosely follow The Ringer just as I loosely followed Grantland - I listen to the podcast, etc.

Cause for concern: Tim Lincecum hasn’t been effective since he stopped throwing in the mid-90s and beyond, which was five years ago.

Do you have any examples of that? I don’t immediately agree or disagree with you but I’m just wondering what you base that on. Paid ads and sponsored posts don’t rise to the level of what Helwani has been up to.

Looking forward to reading Dave’s stuff at The Ringer.

The Colorado-Connecticut affiliate situation has to be among the worst, distance wise, in baseball. The only worse situation I can think of is the Mets’ AAA Las Vegas 51s. “We need an extra reliever up pronto” is a cross country flight.

UFC has actually seemed pretty consistent here. Consistently dumb, but consistent nonetheless. They clearly think the role of a “journalist” is to advance UFC’s own interests at all turns. In that sense, Helwani’s tactics did extend beyond the purpose of “journalism.” Not real journalism — mind you — but this unique…

This guy has taken so many liberties with his status as a “journalist” by knowingly allowing himself to become basically glorified PR staff for UFC in exchange for access, so I was having a hard time finding any sympathy in the first place.

My point above is that his team would almost certainly have brought this to his attention.

Uhh, I’m pretty sure the president of a fairly large and significant university has an administrative staff, some of whom would have access to his e-mail for the sole purpose of screening the messages that come in. Pretty sure that person would click the little red flag next to “I Was Raped At Baylor”

Good job, you glorified beer salesman. Your bizarre ranting will surely boost the trade value of James Shields, who is your only (barely) attractive asset that could be moved to rebuild your destitute farm system. I’m sure free agents will be lining up to play for you and your clownshow team.

I think it’s going to be relatively hard to change that. Guys on the fringes are always going to be more susceptible to using than anyone else (other than HOF-quality players with cases of extreme narcissism, perhaps). I have yet to see a proposal that really makes sense.

Exactly. By my estimate he made just over $20 million through that 2012 season where he looked finished. Somehow (wink wink) he righted the ship and went on to earn another $17 million since. He has 17 million reasons to forego regret. What are they gonna do? Keep him out of Cooperstown? Tarnish his legacy? He’s a…

Sox traded with the Cubs for a struggling Byrd in 2012 with Ellsbury and Crawford out. He had a meager 100-or-so at-bats with the team and at 34, looked totally finished both offensively and defensively.

I’m curious to know what policy the NFL has on the books regarding retention of this sort of material by employees such as this one. This article seems to imply that the NFL would be culpable here but surely they have a policy against Dr. Dumbfuck keeping medical records in a backpack in his car.

Or as Tiger calls it, Mistress #73