I grew up in South Florida but my parents are hardcore Jets fans, so I was raised to hate the Dolphins. I don’t even root for the Jets anymore, but I still do detest the Phins and their extremely deluded fans. I have lots of people from my high school in my Facebook feed who are Dolphin fans, and every single one of…

You are aware that those other games— the ones where Bryce Harper was hitting like Ted Williams’ big brother— that those count in the standings too? Those aren’t exhibition games, those are actual major league baseball games, and they count. Did it ever cross your mind that if it wasn’t for Bryce Harper’s insane…

Sure, he might have hit .339/.470/.663 this year and racked up 10 WAR, and yeah, sure maybe it was one of the 20 greatest offensive seasons in baseball history, but he racked up all of those numbers in the “unimportant” games. They should totes trade him for someone “clutch.”

All of this “play the game the right way” bullshit is so obnoxious coming out of Papelbon’s mouth. I can’t think of a single guy in MLB who plays the game “the wrong way” more than Jonathan Papelbon.

My wife’s creepy uber-Catholic cousin with so many kids she might as well be living in a shoe is all up in arms over this. She has a link on her Facebook page to the One Million Pecksniffs page where you can go to demand that this affront to Jeebophiles everywhere is removed from the teevee and exiled to the Spice…