He is getting $300m from the league but also essentially wants somewhere in the neighborhood of $300m-$400m in additional free public money for something only he will profit off of from a city with a deficit of over $2b (before considering costs associated with climate change).

Wouldn’t the most obvious explanation for Messi’s penalty be as a shout out to Cruyff who has been in poor health and who most famously employed the tactic himself?

Agreed. I think if you consider that they got 3 points from 6 possible against 2 top 4 teams, especially given the circumstances, LC did well. Add to that the fact their still on top by 2 points and have a very friendly run of fixtures to close out the season, I think they’re still (slight) favorites.

“Hi! We pay for things!”

Ray Hudson is La Liga’s Gus Johnson.

This joke was told to me by my brother when I was about 13 (just after the trial). It is very crude but I think well crafted:

“I could ignite Deadspin’s audience by typing “tits” 300 times and hitting the publish button.”

Prepare to waste your entire day: behold Frinkiac!

“I am the one who is in a pile of very scary debt for maxing out not one but two separate VisaBuxx cards so that I could tattoo my entire body in venus symbols and sliced-off middle fingers.”

I have no idea what brought this about but a couple of weeks ago I thought of saying “I nintendoed to do that” rather than “I intended to do that” and my first thought was: wow, that is something Emmitt would say.

Come on, Magary, get with the times. The Frinkiac has what you need: gratuitous Simpson’s quotes plus the screencap!

Do NFL teams charge people to watch practice? When I was a kid we used to go out and watch the Falcons practice but it was always free. And if they do charge now, who the fuck is actually paying a fee to watch practice??

On one hand, this is all very dumb and childish. On the other, Herman Quirmbach is a fucking fantastic name.

Ligue 1 is certainly not the 4th best in Europe (in no order, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, EPL; one may even argue that PSG aside, the Eredivise is a better league).

The only good album the Police ever made was Zenyatta Mondatta. It’s pretty good, I guess. Ever other thing they did was shit, although Stewart Copeland had some interesting adventures...

Luckily, the baby is supposed to get cooked inside the cake so we have that going for us.

Seems like bad logic from Simon. I would think that tennis is one of the, if not the only, sports in which the women’s game is about equally as popular as the men’s.

“Going up is easier actually than coming down.”

“I love football, but the “fans” bring out the worst in the game.”