Yes, let’s ask the Democratic senators who couldn’t win their fucking elections in an incredibly good year for the Dems what’s best for the future of the party.  I’m sure their fingers are right there on the pulse.

Let me tell you, I almost started doing the same thing, digging into old MLB and NFL drafts to see what kind of comparisons you can make. It’s the kind of rabbit hole I love to fall down if I have the time to do so.

Comparing MLB to NFL drafts is a really tough thing to do for a few reasons: first, MLB is allowed to draft high school kids so you get 17 year olds being picked, with the expectation that you’re probably not going to see them in the big leagues for 5-6 years (even most players graduating college get 1-2 years in the…

my dude looks like someone tried to grow a clone of david letterman and gave up halfway through

All in all, I think it’s wound up being the best situation for everyone involved. JT always seemed like the guy who would rather not be the face of the franchise, and he’s able to do that on a very good team in Toronto, while the Islanders were able to move on from the GM that took a damn decade to get any semblance…

Rick Nash is an interesting case for me - he’s a guy who doesn’t finish with the counting numbers for the Hall of Fame (437 goals, 805 points in 1060 games) but he’s one of the first superstars whose career spanned both major work stoppages in the 21st century.  He had 41 goals the season before the 2004-05 lockout…

OK I gotta be a slight homer on this one - Tavares getting out after going through those years makes sense on one hand - but for someone who could complain about his supporting cast and front office for so many years, it didn’t make much sense to leave the year he played with his first 40 goal scorer, had the Calder…

at the end of the day, though, i gotta say my favorite part of that map is how north carolina looked at the rest of the deep south and basically said “y’all gotta stop being timid little mice over there”

my dude it’s not just the bad words you’re saying (altho, yikes), but the substance of what you’re saying that lets me know you’re full of shit and not a fucking liberal.  get the fuck outta here with that shit

Alaska too!  Must be something about being surrounded by all that white stuff outside 

PS make no mistake, i’m an anti-progressive, liberal democrat

OP mentioned Martin’s pitch framing in his case for him, so it’s fair to mention that Grandal measured very well in that category as well. And while its important may be starting to wane, there’s still about a 36 RAA difference between the best and worst in the league at it.

I do think they’re similar in value - while Martin had that huge 2014 season right before becoming a FA, you can’t discount that it was also the first time since 2008 he had posted an OPS+ above 100. Grandal has a stronger offensive track record going into this offseason, plus the bonus of being 2 years younger than…

i don’t know if you’re related to Russell or what, but this is patently bad analysis.

As an Islanders fan I “hate” both of these guys for how many daggers they’ve twisted into my heart over the years, but goddamn if it isn’t fun to watch them play the other 29 teams in the league.

Don Cherry just stopped doing whatever he was doing and started angrily slamming his fingertips onto the nearest tabletop just because you put this thought out into the world.

I spend too much time on twitter and while I don’t know who a lot of these people are, some of these tweets are burned into my dang brain.

he is so fucking horny for that wall

as an islanders fan:  yes plz

Trust me, I’ve been trying! The first political donation was to his opponent in 2016, DuWayne Gregory, and this year you couldn’t walk into my store without seeing posters or pamphlets for his opponent Liuba Grechen Shirley.