Have you seen an interview with Mark Trumbo? He’s one of the quietest, most boring players you’ll ever come across and his mannerisms/personality are basically the antithesis of Bautista’s. Jones is a flashy, outspoken star. If you’re trying to contrast someone with Bautista, Jones isn’t the guy to pick.

Muriel Bowser signed the Death with Dignity Act. Not sure what your issue with her is.

It’s not automatic. Both Carlos Boozer and Paul Pierce have accidentally punched referees celebrating a made bucket and neither of them got a technical. There’s definitely room for interpretation. This just seems like a ref show, especially since the ref who actually got hit seems like he had no interest in calling a…

As an O’s fan, I hate this, but it’s true. I despise Jose Bautista for how he takes everything so personally and intentionally, but Machado is becoming #2 to him in that department and it kills me.

I was about to say, I couldn’t have been the only one to initially read it that way.

Last year, he still was one of the best hitters in baseball. The shift isn’t why he’s struggling this year. He’s just struggling.

There are plenty of reasons the league batting average has dropped since 1999, and shifts are far from the top. Besides just the decline in offense overall in the post-steroid era, teams have realized the value of low-average hitters who walk and/or hit a lot of home runs, and have correctly de-emphasized…

I’d give the benefit of the doubt if the O’s won 15-2 with 6 home runs or something (or if it rained), but they hit no home runs and it didn’t rain, so I’m pretty sure the awful attempt at the Prince reference is what we have here.

The one thing that could change that is getting to 3000 hits. The old farts in the BBWAA love their arbitrary 3000 hits / 500 HRs / 300 wins. Even though that would be essentially meaningless, I think getting to 3000 would get him a lot of the old votes he may not otherwise get. He’s close to 2800 now, so if he plays…

NCAA tennis players don’t earn tens of millions of dollars for their universities and see none of it.

Literally every baseball player above the age of about 12 is taught to throw it at/through the runner in that situation. Betances gets the call 100% of the time if he does that and Girardi knows it.

This guy was accused of assaulting a police horse, too. Not to say nobody broke the law last night, but that seems to be a favorite charge of riot police who assault students for no reason.

Former Maryland punter Adam Podlesh ran a 4.45 in 2007.

Not only are they the fastest team to 40 wins this year, they’re the fastest in NHL history.

Gotcha.

Is the Maryland game not in East Lansing?

A Caps game in Florida earlier this year was delayed because the EMS personnel that are supposed to be there, weren’t. They had to go to a call on their way to the game, and the game was delayed about 20 minutes because they cannot start a game without the EMS present. If the police chief is threatening not to provide…

Dabo Swinney?

According to MLB’s Statcast, this was the fastest throw (based on exit velocity / arm speed / whatever you want to call it) of the entire MLB season. They showed a graphic on MLB network of the top 5 a few nights ago and #1 was Orioles outfielder Dariel Alvarez at 99.5 MPH. This was 100.4 MPH.

It was from their own 30.