Because you live in market. As Tim pointed out, he receives NESN and YES out of market (Florida). Red Sox and Yankee games are blacked out by MLB for him. It’s the league’s way of trying to force people to buy their Extra Innings package of all their games, rather than just a sports package that has the specific…

Something like 80% of the land in the Hong Kong SAR is preserved like a national park. Central and Kowloon make Manhattan look like Nebraska, but you’d be surprised at some of the sleepy beach/fishing/farmerish villages and great, remote hiking areas.

Oprah’s on the show Friday. I’m hoping she brings Uma Thurman out with her.

I can, but I don’t give a shit about Brady’s legacy anymore. So I won’t :-)

I’m very okay with the smear job the NFL is doing on the team. Bob Kraft applauded the smear job the NFL pulled on a domestic violence victim, he deserves everything coming to him. He’s always supported Goodell being Goodell, why should it be any different when it happens to him?

I am, but go on.

As a former diehard Patriots (and NFL in general) fan who swore off the NFL after watching that shitdick Goodell take us all for fools last fall, then seeing Kraft go on national television and embarassingly shill for him, I fucking love this schadenfreude.

Deadspin is more or less modeled off of Simmons’ work, however he’s been much more successful than any of the writers here.

I don’t believe there would be any kind of compensation.

His agent made it known that he would refuse to a sign a contract if he were picked later than the 3rd round, and just workout for the next year before re-entering the Draft. Though I’m a bit surprised no one even tried to call his bluff.

As much as other Devil fans will be celebrating this (and I am, as well), it is a bittersweet end of an era. Took a “Mickey Mouse organization” without the hype and spotlight of those turds across the two rivers and made it by far the Northeast’s most accomplished franchise over the last 2.5 decades. Sure, he checked…

Looking at it from the original angle, it looks perfectly fine. I’m not seeing how Boyle’s back is turned, and Backstrom is gliding before hitting him. The best you can claim is the part of the rule book that defines charging a result of distance traveled, but that’s really a stretch.

Surprised you got through all that without mentioning their, uhh, subpar treatment of women.

Oh, you’re preaching to the choir on that one. It’s clearly the best option, followed by playing in Philly. The Nat’s/O’s territory dispute at least provides a shitty excuse for not playing in DC, I have no idea why they aren’t playing in Philly.

The only way to not be an inconvenience/screw job to Orioles fans is to play the games as scheduled at Camden Yards. Clearly that’s not an option. The Rays are the ones with the leverage. There’s no reason for them to agree to swapping series.

Would be a massive headache and screwjob to ticket holders (all 50 of them) in Tampa. No way the Rays would have agreed to a series swap with a few days’ notice.

The kicker about the A’s/Giants San Jose debate is that Oakland had SJ within their own territory and granted it to the Giants so they could build there. Now that the A’s want to build there, the Giants are being asshats about it.

Then have first pitch at 5 or 6. Plenty of time for a full baseball game and even some traffic on the way home. It’s really incredible that there are two relatively nearby stadiums sitting empty until next Monday and the Orioles have to play an empty stadium home game and then three in Tampa.

Most days, it’s a good idea for everyone to just ignore the bad blog posts, because at root they are all just derivatives of the same style of incurious, inflammatory writing.

Very worth pointing out. Makes you wonder why Samer didn’t write an entire opening paragraph about it.