All of the basic ones and none of the arcane ones? The plate means nothing here (but is in fair territory anyway), the batters box is equally meaningless with regards to fair/foul, and the ball ended up in fair territory.

There are 162 games in an MLB season, and like 70 of them are division games. This one particular early July game is -mostly- (as I said originally) meaningless in the context of the season. Damnit if I didn’t only include the word mostly because I knew some crusty ass baseball fan would get bent out of shape if I…

It will forever be stupid that the Astros are in the American League and the Brewers are not, but seeing dumbass, random shit like this decide a mostly meaningless extra inning game in July will forever make baseball a great game to watch. I mean, at least until nobody plays baseball anymore and soccer and basketball…

So Marcus Smart turns down an extension in the $12 million AAV range before the deadline this year, presumably because his agent tells him that there’s been sweetheart deals handed out left and right the past couple summers and he’ll get him one of those. Summer comes around, everybody’s capped out because of those…

the Know Nothings are making a comeback. not the third party we asked for, but the one we deserve.

“Wow, what does it take to become a writer here? Series aren’t won by points overall to start with”

Make them buy ad space. The obviously have the cash. 

Obviously intentional to avoid giving either brand free ad space, which hey, that’s fine

The United Kingdom: also not Great Britain.

I notice he also elegantly avoided naming Nike by name. IMO, Giri is the most talented writer here, so I suspect this was done intentionally. Maybe a quiet crusade to not support big business? Not sure, but the man doesn’t miss much.

A ton NBA players talk about how the hold is their most prized metal...even guys with rings.  People like winning and winners, doesn't matter how unfair the tournament was.

Octopii are one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet and are actually required to be put under anesthesia if a procedure is needed to be done on them, because they are believed to have an understanding of what is happening to them.  If kept in captivity, they need to be in specialized tanks because they…

Their best teams in my lifetime got worked by the Bulls, Rockets, and Spurs, respectively. But, if they become something worthwhile (when Dolan sells the team) they will be fawned over by the national media. I don’t agree with the biases but that’s the simple truth. The Red Sox were garbage for a solid human lifetime,…

Thank you for pointing this out - this was really the only line in the article I had a major issue with because fuck the Wilpons, if they’re as financially sophisticated as they hold themselves to be, they HAD TO KNOW Madoff’s dealings were just one big scam.

MLB forced that carpetbagging Boston fuck McCourt to sell…

They [Lakers] can print money if they’re winning

because they lost all their money to Bernard Madoff’s scamming—although as it happens they did

This was true a few decades ago. It’s not the case any longer. The Knicks have the worst record in the league since 2002. The Lakers haven’t been good for ten years and their recent FA efforts can be summed up with one of the saddest, thirstiest pictures of all time:

This is dumb, but I love it because you know the Facebook and Google crawlers are going to pick this up and people are gonna click getting all fired up like “How can you even blame Messi for this?!! The defense (blah blah blah)” and show up here all ready to fight only to find a link to an article about tax evasion.