Baseball is a game of inches, and last night they all lined up against the Twins. Judge’s catch, the close play at first late in the game, Didi snagging Polanco’s liner in the ninth.

To be fair, if you’re playing the White Sox, Royals, and Tigers 19 times a year, you should win 101 games easily.

I’m not a journalist, but I think this article lacks credibility without a quote or at least a “No comment” from Marvin Lewis.

I’m 45 and a lifelong Minnesotan. How did I let myself think this would be any different?

I think Bosa’s attitude had less to do with old college grudges than with the well known fact he just hates the browns. 

He’s going to get plunked in batting practice tomorrow.

Texas senator Ted Cruz, who is a Rockets fan, condemned the NBA’s stance on Sunday. “We’re better than this; human rights shouldn’t be for sale & the NBA shouldn’t be assisting Chinese communist censorship,” he wrote on Twitter.  {Guardian}

The answer to this and other questions may be found in the article you just skipped past so you could fire off this dumb comment.

The surest sign that China is overtaking the United States as a superpower is how even quicker they are to act like aggrieved, authoritarian-supporting snowflakes.

Just saying “it’s a business” when someone/some corporation does something shitty doesn’t absolve the person/corporation.

What’s most jarring to me is how quickly they jump from “STOP BEING POLITICAL” to “OH MY DEAR CHINA DID THAT MEAN TWEET HURT YOU?” It’s so unbelievably transparent and hypocritical, and in a just world they’d get absolutely raked through the coals. But alas. Alas.

Even Viola Desmond!

This makes me wish I watched the NBA so I could quit watching the NBA.

Good on you for noting ESPN’s complicity in all of this. But while I wouldn’t expect a nuanced take from Golic and Wingo, seeing other media personalities and journalists so conspicuously quiet on this issue (Bill Simmons; Sam Amick, Ramona Shelburne; Shams Charania, Zach Lowe... none of them has yet said anything…

You barely get to live in the world at all—much less run a multibillion dollar business with global ties and partnerships of varying degrees—without there being a political undertone to most of your actions.

No surprise that Tillman Frittata only cares about collecting more eggs.

It takes a good, well-coached team to recognize that opportunity when it arrives

I bet Andy Luck is wishing this line was in place 2-3 years ago.

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