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Girardi was also a pretty inexperienced guy when he took over as Yankees manager in 2008—his only coaching experience at any level came in his one year managing the Marlins to semi-relevance in 2006. All he did in New York was win a World Series in his second season, and take the Yankees to Game 7 of the 2017 ALCS.

After some slow seasons in Utah (when he was playing from ages 19-22, I should mention), he actually started picking things up in OKC. This shouldn’t be as much of a surprise as it is to people, including myself. But look at his advanced metrics!

“Knew what? I didn’t know anything about that. Why would you even thi-oh, nevermind, this is something else.”

He’s actually from Louisiana!

I think there’s a lot of truth to that, in general. I’ve always felt that you should get a job involving something you like, but never something you love. If you love a certain topic or profession, the politics and monotony of doing it every day for 30 years is going to ruin it. I like to think I am passionate about a…

Oh man, a statistician! What are the chances!? Trust me, if you were a statistician, you wouldn’t be using passer rating. The arbitrary parts are obviously not the TD’s, attempts, interceptions and so on, but rather how they multiplied, divided and so on by random numbers. It’s like taking RBIs, multiplying them by…

He’s not Favre, and I felt I made that clear that Favre was the superior player. My comparison is that he is made in the Favre mold and shares similar flaws and strengths, although Favre’s strengths were superior. Favre is a first ballot Hall-of-Famer, and rightfully so, and Eli is going to have to wait a few years.

Mike is incredible. He can manage to blast two failures, McAdoo and Reese, with the same passion Giants fans were feeling yesterday. However, this is a guy who a year or two ago couldn’t understand how Star Wars released episodes 4, 5 and 6 first. I have no idea why, but everything this guy says is hilarious, whether…

A good point on his longevity, but I think that’s something that can be used to support him as well. Brett Favre, who threw his fair share of interceptions, was legendary for his toughness. Favre was better than Eli at their respective peaks, but playing for a really long time with one team is a pretty impressive…

I have no problem with you bringing up statistics that argue against Manning, there’s arguments to be made and stats to use. Passer rating and QB Rating are two different things, while you use them interchangeably there. I’ll assume you meant passer rating, since that’s the link you sent. Passer rating is an arbitrary…

Eh, he is top ten all time in most passing statistics. That’s partially the era, but he was always a lot better than most people gave him credit for being. He did a lot to get to those Super Bowls, too.

It’s funny, I sometimes think Deadspin gets on King’s case too much, that he really isn’t all that bad, and his long, nearly stream-of-consciousness writing style can actually be quite intriguing. He’s a doofus and a company man, but that doesn’t mean one can’t enjoy his work now and again.

This is some great stuff here

(more than one of whom has wielded as evidence the writings of John Ziegler, a longtime conspiracy theorist who has argued that Jerry Sandusky is innocent)

Yeah, I don’t blame you for assuming college football fans were being irrational. If you go through life assuming that to be true, you’ll be right in 90%+ of cases.

Normally, I’d agree with you. Those irrational idiots are some of the least reasonable people on Earth. But, using whatever blind squirrel/broken clock analogy you like, they were right here. Schiano is a mediocre coach and dipshit to boot. One can tolerate Nick Saban’s dipshit behavior because he wins.

Especially when YOU don’t have a helmet but the other guy does. That’s even worse!

I’m no fan of the Warriors, but Green doesn’t belong on that list. Burfict and Talib are on a level all of their own.

My understanding is that since Kinja took over, there have been a lot more shitty hot takes, sometimes of a political nature and sometimes just your average sports hot take. The old comment section was full of clever puns, immature jokes, and a wonderful aura of irreverence. I don’t know if Kinja is to blame entirely,…