Only 50 seconds? You clearly didn't give this the proper consideration it deserves. Now I know why 4 got shafted.

Since when have the Pirates had a national fan base? Heck, since when have the Pirates had ANY fan base?

I got the impression that Jackson got fired simply because when McKenzie came in as GM he wanted to exert as much control over the organization as possible and that meant hiring his own coach.

I actually kind of like it (even though they probably should have cut it short halfway though the song). I don't think it was meant to be a serious ceremony (if it was intended to be serious, they failed). It was lighthearted and funny. And I think funny is actually the way to go rather than a serious ceremony of…

It always seems like NYC never has an alternative to the Jets game. This week, for instance, there is no CBS game on at 1 pm in NYC. Why is that? Why can't we watch Carolina-Baltimore like the rest of the country?

That statement is equally true of every professional sport. If that's your attitude, why are you on a sports blog?

Only amateurs actually make it to the game.

Does it have sexual feelings for other male baseball stadiums?

ESPN really mismanaged this one. If they had just ignored the podcast and maybe said something privately to Simmons, most people wouldn't have noticed. I know I wouldn't have. Instead, every sports media outlet is talking about it.

I don't think he would have much success as an individual blogger, but I could see him signing a contract with Foxsports.com or Yahoo or some other sports website and being successful there, especially if they let him set up another Grantland-style website and he can lure some of the current Grantland writers. Maybe…

So your logic is "well, it was fine for 80 years, why isn't it fine now?" Slavery was fine for hundreds of years. Segregation was fine for decades. Okay, maybe those examples aren't fair. Saying "Ni****" was fine for decades. Things change. Things that were acceptable yesterday are no longer acceptable today and some…

Does it affect how you throw a football?

Never mind. The 3 balk game was against the Giants. Pelfrey sure had a lot of memorable balks.

Is that from the game where balked 3 times so the Phillies kept stealing?

What about the Panthers, 49ers, and Cardinals? Am I forget any teams?

So did Baggerly leave? Either voluntarily or because the other reporters kicked him out so they could get the quotes they needed for their story or because security kicked him out? Or did he stay and no one from the Giants spoke?

Sims 4 needs a mod for polygamy? I remember having sims that engaged in polygamy in the original Sims without a mod. It wasn't really called polygamy. It more seemed to be that the programers forgot to put a prohibition on multiple marriages without a divorse for one Sim and didn't program the original spouse to get…

I hope they look at new rules that the Atlantic League adopted to speed up the game. Some of them are weird (having a designated runner for the catcher), but I like the 3 mound visits per team per game (not counting pitching changes), reducing the number of warmup pitches pitchers take at the start of each inning and…

If you committed a crime and got caught by the police, there's no guarantee your employer would find out about it because not every crime makes the news, your boss might not read the paper everyday, etc. You might get lucky and your boss might not find out. However, if they do find out and it's a serious enough crime,…

Granted most employers don't have an investigatory arm, but then again most employers don't pay their employees millions of dollars. Besides, even without an investigatory arm, finding out is relatively easy: newspapers/websites run police reports and you miss work when you get arrested or have to go to court. As for…