Spanish teams being involved in financial and transfer-related shenanigans? I am shocked, sir, Shocked I tell you!

Fun story about “the city”: I grew up in Connecticut, about an hour and a half outside NYC, so everyone referred to New York as just “the City.” So my dad goes into his office one Monday, everyone is talking about their weekends, and one of his co-workers says, “Yeah, my wife and I went into the City, had a great…

A double-A first baseman. And they’ve tried like 10 guys at first this season, was my point.

Probably true - which makes it even less likely that the Yankees would do this given all the talk them wanting to go on a free agent spending spree in 2019.

Ellsbury would definitely need to go the other way in any deal, which I’d think would be the biggest impediment to Miami doing this, assuming they are in fact interested in a trade.

Yeah, and this episode also (for reasons elucidated in other comments about how ridiculous it is that the naval battle was so one-sided) makes me worry that Euron, like Ramsay, is going to be an unstoppable supervillain who consistently wins in improbable circumstances with minimal losses solely because the show needs…

Look, as a long-time resident of NYC, I can tell you that the best pizza is a little place called Famiglia in Times Square, the best Italian is a little placed called Olive Garden (also in Times Square), and the best diner is a little place called the Hard Rock Cafe (also in Times Square).

Any attempt to do something similar in the US would have a real hard time not getting struck down in court for violating the First Amendment. Like, I agree that a great many ads in this country are gross and in an ideal world would never see the light of day, but I don’t think you actually want the federal government…

The Starbucks at the edge of town that was open 24 hours and didn’t hassle us for smoking at their outdoor tables.

Right? I follow a bunch of dogs on instagram (look, we’re living in hard times and sometimes looking at pictures of puppies while I hide in the bathroom is the only way to get by) and it drives me nuts when people “celebrate” Mother’s Day or Father’s Day for owning a pet. It’s so fucking crazy to genuinely believe…

Maybe? I mean, there’s no doubt he’s an excellent coach and that matters for NE’s sustained winning, but I’d argue his ability to put a team together by finding diamonds in the rough matters more. Without drafting one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time in a late round, I’d bet the Pats only win 1 or 2 Superbowls…

Read the article. The Governor controls the MTA, not the mayor of NYC.

The Warriors’ system really seems to just be “shoot a lot of threes” and “play good defense,” and they do these things better than anyone else in the league because they have more elite three-point shooters and defenders than any other team. To the extent that “our players who are good at shooting threes should be…

I’m increasingly convinced that at the elite level in team sports bad coaching can make a good team worse but good coaching only matters at the margins. Like, a good coach can make a HUGE difference at the youth/college/amateur level, but I don’t think any team full of guys who make the all-star team or represent…

Trump’s charities are scams that he used to rip people off and line his own pockets in ways that are, in fact, illegal. The Clinton Foundation, regardless of whether or not they took money from gross people and regimes, spent its money on programmatic activities that by most estimates saved somewhere around one…

Alex, my dude, you are not a senior millennial if you’re 24. I’m six years older than you and have been getting called a millennial since I was like 13. The term applies to almost everyone who was born in the 80s and 90s.

You don’t hear about “black-on-black crime” (aka crime that just happens in black neighborhoods and is almost by definition “black-on-black” because of how segregated this country is) because you don’t live in a black neighborhood, have any black friends, or pay attention to any black media. Just because you’re not…

I’m a big ol’ dove on foreign policy, but there actually isn’t necessarily an inherent contradiction between believing something to be immoral and believing something to be necessary.

Between transfer shenanigans and tax fraud I feel like La Liga is the shadiest league in Europe but I don’t know why. Feels like you don’t see a lot of Italian players getting charged with tax fraud or German teams getting banned from the transfer market.