(blows smoke rings) "I'm hip to it. I used to dance like that all the time when I was down there."—Jim Leyland

JESUS!! That's not a thumb! That's a fucking talon!

I do, in all seriousness. It's just that my home state is rather backwards, and all the ridicule we get, we rightly deserve.

"In fact, compared to other cities, it's downright dirty, unpredictable and technologically behind."

I noted that in a later reply. Hell, who knows??

Yeah, we can go ahead and ditch the idea of the 'benefits' of solitary confinement. If there really was a benefit to it, prisoners would not be thrown into it as a further, more-restrictive, dreaded punishment for behavior. It's inhumane, for the very reasons outlined, and for a person with a psychotic sort of…

Don Cherry, 21st century Canadian pimp!

"Yeah, but dudes today play with pants where you can't see the stockings! It's, like, a LOT cooler!"—fans with no sense of history

Springsteen is gifted; Chuck Berry is revolutionary

Bay is pretty much just slapping together filmed/CGI'ed scenes at this point, and gives not one single shit if it forms a coherent narrative or not, so long as it (a) makes some money, and (b) allows him to make unfunny, crude 'jokes' that would get your drunken uncle thrown out of any place that could forcibly remove…

No, guys, I'm afraid you got it wrong—Walsh didn't recognize you because you're anonymous, unimportant, minor douchebags who aren't worth remembering, and your behavior pretty much proves that claim.

Perhaps he means something along the lines of "he could throw that football past an onrushing outside linebacker who was blitzing as part of a jailbreak, all out blitz!"? Not as catchy or lyrical, of course....

It's so nightmarishly lame and unathletic, it could be argued that it was some vague drug-use innuendo (a "speedball"), but something about 'fondly reminiscing about the days of yore' speaks to doughy, hacky sportswriters, I suppose....

This actually doesn't look that bad, what with the netting and all. Now the Tornado slide I went down backwards, in the early evening...so that it was practically dark in the slide? That was bad. Other riders coming down behind me have no idea how close they came to having to deal with a scene reminiscent of the…

Is it because he wrote that one song about the guy in the bar, who "could throw that speedball by you"? That's a sports reference, even if it's a pathetic sort of reference! That's a lot more manly than, say, that whole "Sailing" song, which is why sportswriters aren't that big of fans of Christopher Cross, I guess.…

"TL; DR"—many internet commenters

"It'll be an INVASION OF FUN at this year's Marcin Gortat Basketball Camp!!"

Who knows? It's not out of the realm of impossiblity, but I imagine you'd have a hard time finding good, solid confirmation on it, y'know?

"...especially as the flopsweating Pittsburgh Pirates seem to have been willing to discuss a variety of pretty good prospects."

See, as I was reading it, that's the first thing that came to my mind, because I figured it would be an elegant way to appeal to the desire of a terrorist group to be 'known', but then I overthought it by thinking that would be considered to be too obvious....