This is a bit off topic, but I’m curious: why does softball still exist? Especially as a girls only sport? I don’t really see any difference in girl’s/women’s ability to run, field, hit so I don’t get why the two sports are so dramatically different, or, in the opposite sense, why there aren’t boys softball teams?…

Can Oklahoma really just slot anyone behind center and make him look like a Heisman Trophy candidate?

In the case I mentioned upthread, the daughters were 17 and 22, so one was an adult - about to get married. And in that case, the mother had a history of depression and suicide attempts. I really wonder if that was the case with this woman.

Ryan Grigson should have been running an Evansville Applebee’s into the ground rather than a generational quarterback talent.

Jay previously owned a share of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, in which he purchased a $1 million stake in 2004, but even that deal was controversial in that many believe it sped up the hyper-gentrification tearing up his beloved, native Brooklyn.

That’s a hell of a parenthetical

Anyone else torn between hoping he gets his shit together mentally in order to reach his potential as a player, and worried that if he does we’d miss out on this kind of legitimately quirky but fun stuff from him?

The Jays suck because our GM somehow thinks that 42 years of guys that might never play in the majors is more valuable than 14 years of guys that have proved they can.

This. I know people love and want to take care of their family, but this is not the way to do it. Keep your family out of your financial decision making tree, get a real agent and financial adviser(s), and use them to set up trusts for your family. For the love of god, don’t put a family member with exactly 0%…

Thank God. One fewer talented kid will be fucked over by some dipshit family member siphoning off cash and fucking around pretending he knows what a contract is.

What teams are doing is entirely rational, and that’s the problem. It makes perfect sense to hedge rather than going nuts chasing a 10% chance at making a full divisional playoff round. And it makes perfect sense to covet years of team control, even if you’re a very good team, rather than trade years of production for…

A Colorado Rockies team that looked like a slightly-more-fitness-oriented-than-usual men’s bible study group streaked to the World Series before running out of gas in 2007;

Toronto Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins stood in front of the assembled press and boasted that his team had “turned 14 years of control into 42 years of control,”

A nice reminder that what Rich Paul has done with his affiliation with Lebron is actually very impressive and not the layup some assume.

The Los Angeles Clippy

This logistical concerns are valid, but FIFA’s doing the right thing here. You say that they should’ve waited until there were more good teams and then expanded the tournament, but that’s getting the causation backwards: expanding the tournament will create more good teams.

Yes, the Orioles have 13 pitchers, but five of those pitchers are starters, which means they need four days off between pitching appearances, so four of them were unavailable today. The team had used all eight of their relief pitchers in the game already (and the last one had thrown 30 pitches, which is probably about…

Crazy baseball is the best baseball.  Bring back the 4-pitch IW!  (because wild pitches or the batter going eff this and reaching across anyway)

I was at the Cishek to left field game. Literally no one in the outfield bleachers thought it was anything other than Maddon being crafty.

If this had happen during the Montreal portion of the Rays season, it would have been even more confusing because it would have all been in metric.