Hinkie was a snake oil salesman who dressed up tanking in Silicon Valley nonsense jargon.

I think a lot of people under-rate Butler because the Bulls are so mediocre, but he’s probably a top ten player in the NBA right now. If I were the Celtics, I’d push a whole lot of my chips in and try to beat the Cavs this year with Butler.

Those mid-2000s WVU teams were a whole lot of fun.

If I could emulate any athlete, regardless of sport, it would be Berbatov. To be that good and run that little is extremely my shit.

Jerry will croak someday and pass the team along to his shitty son. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The problem for the Bulls is, even after Jerry kicks the bucket, we’ll still be stuck with his moron son running the show. At least the Sox will get sold out of the family (or so I’ve been lead to believe).

They haven’t made a good draft pick since Jimmy Butler. That was five years ago.

The problem is, Jerry Reinsdorf is so disinterested that Gar and Pax will be around forever. Gar is buddies with Michael Reinsdorf and Paxson has the Kenny Williams Job For Life status with Jerry. They’ll keep fucking up, drafting poorly, signing washed up free agents, and waste the Jimmy Butler’s prime. Any competent…

I think this is a really fair point. I was at the qualifier in Columbus the weekend after the election and I was so happy to see that politics were completely absent from the atmosphere. I’m hoping we can keep whatever horrible xenophobia and prejudice that’s swirling around in the real world away from the USMNT as…

*whispers* Or Landon Donovan.

This list is horrible. Frank’s Brother is by far the worst episode, The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention is the best.

Also Cubs fan. I think overuse hurt him more than anything. If Rondon and Strop had been healthy and effective, they Maddon might not have ridden Chapman so hard. It all worked out (barely) in the end, but I have to think the thinness of the bullpen contributed to Chapman’s ineffectiveness. Anyway, goodbye, good…

Because they share the stadium with the Raiders.

The Roost is legitimately my favorite restaurant in Chicago. It’s life-affirming.

Dunkin Donuts has better coffee than any expensive artisanal coffee house.

I got three words for you: Louis Van Gaal.

I’m pretty sure it’s just grabbing a warm body to hold everything together until after the 2018 World Cup when they’ll go for a new permanent coach. Arena is familiar enough with the setup to right the ship, get them qualified, get knocked out in the round of 16 in 2018, and hand the baton off to the next guy. Lather,…

If I were to guess (hope?), Arena will only be around through this World Cup cycle in order to steady the boat. Long enough to not be considered “interim” but not really the long-term guy either.

He wasn’t a good enough in-game manager for those long-term plans to ever unfold. All the good he did as a technical director/”big picture” guy was undercut by his shitty tactics and man management.

I also follow and like Shea, but I feel like he is the shining example of why the Ringer doesn’t work. He can be an entertaining writer, but he really needs to be reigned in.