I’m half expecting tweets today blaming those of us who booed him for the Nats loss. “Tough game for the Nats, but what can you expect when the fans are so hate filled and unsupportive! Their negativity during the game clearly demoralized the team!” Except Trump doesn’t know what demoralized means. But you get the…

We weren’t booing him. We were saying BooooRump. 

I was there, and I think the crowd handled it perfectly. Can you imagine if Trump was able to say something like “of course THAT crowd booed me! They booed are heroes in uniform!” Instead, we booed the shit out of Trump, cheered the hell out of the heroes, and then immediately went into a Lock Him Up chant. It was a…

Are you seriously arguing for a non-profit sports league? This may be the dumbest comment I’ve seen on this site, which is saying something. If you’re arguing that these rich guys shouldn’t set out to make money then go for it- but argue for some pro-social use of the money instead! Tell these entitled rich guys to…

I love how all the comments pointing out this obvious fact are in the greys. And I say that as someone who is outraged that NCAA players aren’t paid. But that doesn’t mean that those of us who agree with that point should deliberately overstate our case and ignore obvious facts. 

“Schoolteachers don’t say “I make $40k per 3/4 of a year.” Nope. That’s their yearly salary for that job, regardless of spring, summer and winter breaks.”

Way less than half a year. Looks like 10 weeks or so of work. It’s not “professional athlete in one of AMERICA’S four major sports league” pay, but that’s a silly comparison for a league like this. The players will make what any regular person in America would consider good money for that time period. It won’t make…

Precisely. If you frame this as “this one guy doesn’t feel like the base pay offered is a good opportunity for him given the other options he has available” then it’s a perfectly reasonable analysis. Framing it, as Chris does, as an indictment against the league as a whole and some shining example of capitalism’s…

“It’s a complete farce.”

Exactly. I’m sure SOMEONE will mention some of this at some point during the pre-game broadcast, but the whole point of having an entire pre-game show is so that you can cover all of this long before they swing it to Buck and the actual gameplay crew. 

He’s a sports announcer. Isn’t explaining things to the audience literally his job description?

Yup. The first sentence is normally so masturbatory and filled with lines that Ratto clearly thought would prove to everyone just how clever he is that he might as well attach his signature after every period. 

You sound like the white plaintiffs in every affirmative action case complaining about how if it wasn’t for those dang minorities they’d definitely have gotten in to the school of their dreams. 

Magnanimous comments such as yours embiggen all of us.

I’ve seen a whole bunch of folks sharing AOC’s questions of him on social media claiming that she’s really sticking it to him, but it’s always nonsense like what you’re describing. One person I know was pointing out how ridiculous it was that he didn’t know the exact date that in interaction happened when AOC asked…

Thank god SOMEONE seems able to recognize that what happens in April and May in baseball is utterly meaningless, and that the Nats of the past 5 months have been the best team in baseball. The people who are absolutely SHOCKED at what the Nats are doing here simply have not been paying any attention the whole year and…

Given that the Nats have had the best record in baseball over the past 5 months, I’m pretty shocked that people seem so unwilling to recognize that they may just be the better team after all. No no, it’s not that the Nats are better- it’s that it’s BASEBALL, and sometimes unfair outcomes happen! 

I have no idea why Barry is so dismissive of Sanchez. He’s a perfectly good fourth starter for any team, and the last time he took the mound he was unhittable. Everyone’s talking like the Nats have three good pitchers and nothing else. Hudson and Doolittle are fine (not lights out, but fine) and the four starters are…

I’m just impressed with how little was said in how many words he did use. “STERLING DOES EVERYTHING WELL. YES, EVERYTHING!” would have been just as informative as the various platitudes and blanket statements about Sterling’s skills that Billy listed. 

So we got an entire article refuting an argument that was made by...who exactly? Someone said this somewhere, so Ray wrote a whole refutation of it for some reason? And the analysis is...what exactly? That Curry won’t put up more numbers because him having the ball more is antithetical to Ray’s hastily crafted view of…