Anand also looks like an accountant. He's just not as marketable as Carlsen.

Also after Orlando Hudson, Aaron Hill and now Brett Lawrie, I am just not going to get my hopes up about any infield prospects ever again. I will just assume they'll end up being mediocre.

Better karma system? New Vegas is one of my favourite games ever but let's be serious, the karma system is completely broken. It's impossible to end up as anything other than very, very good, since you get good karma for killing fiends, and you're gonna be killing some fiends. I've gone out of my way to be as evil as…

Am I the only one who doesn't get why it took him so long? I killed everyone in Megaton once, it took about 30 seconds of one-shot criticals with the alien blaster.

Also, Luhnow's really come across as a clown recently. The draft pick issue was just about the most unprofessional draft-related thing ever. He's bought himself some time by throwing Porter under the bus but I am starting to have serious doubts about his own competency. Forget winning the WS in 2017 — I doubt Luhnow…

No, it wouldn't solve everything but it would be a start. It's not just the length that bugs me, it's the effect it has on the game. The fact that the game goes three hours+ doesn't bother me itself, what bothers me is watching guys step out of the box and readjust their gloves 30 times before striking out looking,…

The principal owner has to be the one owning 30%. I think it just goes by share. Whoever has the largest share is the principal owner, and it has to be over 30%. Everyone else is a minority owner.

Yeah, although to be honest I liked those teams better than anything since. Clemens and Delgado were better than anyone the Jays have had since then except Halladay and maybe Bautista, and it was really fun to troll the Sox fans about Clemens.

I legitimately laughed at this. I'd like to win the lottery, but it's not going to happen. Sometimes you have to be realistic. This is not realistic.

It's pretty simple, Nintendo is primarily concerned with the Japanese market. Not bashing Nintendo, if anything I'm a Nintendo fanboy, but this is true.

I would also point out that "die-hard baseball fans" are generally insufferable. With other sports you have a dichotomy between snobby die hards and casual fans. With baseball, that's not the case. The dichotomy is between snobby, crotchety old guys waxing poetic about the beauty and subtlety of the game and grit and…

I agree, but it's also a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Is baseball less popular because ESPN stopped devoting time to it, or did ESPN devote less time to it because it was becoming less popular?

Newflash: those terms can also apply to MLB ownership

Agree. College football fans are the worst. If I have to hear about Tebow or Manziel one more time I'm going to punch somebody.

Not like ESPN has a vested interest in staying on MLB's good side that will lead to them to only do soft focus puff pieces, or anything...

You are completely wrong. It was 100% on the owners. If not 100%, 98%. They blatantly colluded and locked the players out.

I would wager that a higher proportion of NFL fans gamble on football than MLB fans gamble on baseball. There's also fantasy football which is essentially gambling if there's a cash prize, as there sometimes is.

The rush is that most people under retirement age don't have time for 4 hour games in 2014.

I'm confused by your comment.

Baseball is too busy worshipping at the altar of guys like David Eckstein. Forget marketing good players — he plays the game the right way, haven't you heard? Has lots of grit.