I get the hate people have for Belichick based on the cheating, the smugness, his political beliefs.

See, I always thought the beef was that Davis allegedly hit his elbow, when replays (a little grainy, considering it was 98) show he probably never did, or if he did, it was the very slightest touch. Are you saying the foul was called on the contact before the shot? If so, then you are right on that too; he was…

I was 10 when this play happened, and it’s to this day one of the greatest moments of my life, partially because I got to share it with my dad. One of my clearest memories from my childhood.

He was enrolled at one of top 20 or 30 best schools in the entire country. I’m not saying he’s not capable of making something of his life. I’m saying that his father’s decision to make him to move a village in Lithuania rather than remain at an incredible University is just awful. He’s not making a career in…

Yes, duh, really breaking new ground there. I’m sure his brother or father could spare the money to pay for the tuition for four years.

I thought of that exact quote while writing that earlier.

Player also said that the Ball family can live about 30 minutes outside of the small village where team is located — in a city called Kaunas, who is growing and has plenty of restaurants. “There’s nothing in the village where the team is. No restaurants, malls, nothing really.”

The whole thing is messy. The LaMelo decision made not basketball sense at all, the kid is still developing and we have no idea what college he would have gone to, but by all accounts he’s better than LiAngelo, who still got a scholarship at UCLA. This might turn out alright for LaMelo, as long as he’s able to keep…

Shit man, I couldn’t even imagine. We hear all these numbers about World War II, but they eventually sort of numb us, but stories like those resonate...in a truly horrific way. Countries that were stuck behind the iron curtain, especially, I think suffer from a lack of global awareness regarding what went down…

So, a friend of mine teaches History of the Holocaust, and in 2015 or 2016, he spent the summer in Lithuania going to various Holocaust memorial sites in the country. When he told me this, I made a comment like “oh, wow, I didn’t know the Holocaust reached even there”, and he responded with a reaction that I can only…

Trammell? Honestly, I find that surprising, but the advanced defensive numbers are much better than I thought they were, and his offensive numbers had some peak years for sure

Maybe he could ask his old buddy Cousin House-O how many points he’d be willing to lay when taking the other team.

Wouldn’t mind it, but it’s also fine the way it is. Baseball needs to move the Wild Card game to a 3 game Series, and the NBA and NHL need to cut teams (hockey also needs to get an even number of teams).

They’re both really good with mediocre quarterbacks. I could see either of those teams winning wild card week and upsetting any team in the divisional round besides the Pats. This isn’t like the Cards starting Ryan Lindley or whoever it was that one time.

The NFL actually does playoff seeding right, which is surprising considering how they fuck up everything else. Six teams is the perfect number to create drama amongst good teams on the bubble and yet reward top teams with a bye.

I think you know this, but fielding percentage is a rather inefficient way of judging fielding. In fact, it’s incredibly inefficient. At best, it only tells you half the story. An infielder who gets to every ball, but makes an errant throw on a few of them will see his fielding percentage suffer, while a statue in the…

I find that absolutely mind-blowing. I believe you, but still, I would never have thought that.

Then I stand corrected, I had looked up his offensive stats earlier, but didn’t remember his defensive ones. I still argue that he wasn’t “long overdue” for the Hall, but that is absolutely a point in his favor that I didn’t give him. It’s odd that we (or myself, at least) thought that Jeter was this amazing defender…