“I would enjoy watching him punch people in pinstripes.”

1. Calvin and Hobbes

Plot twist: but the wish was to be told off by a major leaguer.

Robot umps on balls/strikes is dumb. Half the value of a catcher is ability to frame pitches.

Word. Sports are all about narratives. Dynasties help narratives. Rangers got to take down the Yankees in the 2010 ALCS on their way to their first WS. Everyone in the U.S. knows that had some significance years later. What if it was the Rays they beat instead? You’d have to scratch your head and think about whether…

Fundamental appeal is entertainment. We aren’t running science experiments here. A dude skipping a millimeter off a base as he slides through, and checking 4 angles to see if glove was in contact with him while he came off the millimeter when neither of the humans actually involved in the play could even tell does not…

Analogous, I think you can be clutch *at times*, which makes sample size not just insufficient, but impossible. I watch Adrian Beltre come up some time and know that he has decided to get a hit in this key moment. And he does. The next day, he could come up to hit in the exact same scenario and — while not taking the…

That’s the University of Texas tower and the statue of Washington on campus. The former is a pretty odd choice for a U.S. history quiz given its historical relevance is Charles Whitman.

yabut zero punched faces, so score one for the Rangers there.

[quote]The kicker dies after he goes on a bender in his Denali, threatening multiple people and almost running them off the road, before finally slamming into a bunch of trees and flipping into a ditch.[/quote]

She got cracked in the face by a D-1 running back, almost by definition someone that is in the upper .01% of athletic ability and strength in the country. Dropping the N bomb, ‘acting the fool’, shoving etc.? Please. Appropriate responses range from rolling your eyes to telling her she is embarrassing herself.

A man does not calculate the risks when sex is imminent. As Han Solo taught us: Never tell me the odds!

He will never, ever do this again.

How Do You Know You Are Running If Tickets Aren’t Real?

He was diculous again?

“I love the poorly educated” — probably unrelated Trump quote.

I now live across I-35 from UT in a pretty racially mixed neighborhood. It makes it awkward knowing that my daughter and her friends, despite the nearly identical lives they lead, are going to be viewed differently by the admissions process.

I grade this take as a 7.2 on the Stephen A. Smith scale.

... is also still full of shit?

I’m going to be a truther here and say Kipnis saw the shenanigans ketchup did at the start and retaliated. This was no accident.