A Mexican.

If there's one thing that can sully a piece of hitting like that, it's the phrase "oppo jack," which you just KNOW he's been waiting to break out.

The face-melting irony that will emerge in ten years when researchers discover that pot significantly reduces the effects of CTE. I bet Ken Burns has dreams about it.

That's awesome.

I didn't say anything derogatory. Maybe the "ze" I guess, but if Pepe Le Pew can get away with it, can't I? What do you want? That's what happened. They were good guys though. I also am excited for said series.

I didn't say anything derogatory about French Canadians. Maybe the use of "Ze" I guess, but I think I can get away with a joke that Pepe Le Pew can get away with, right. What do you want? That's how it went down. They were nice guys. I am also very excited about this series.

I was at game three of the Bruins/Canadians playoff series in Boston in 2008. A lot of the fans were Habs fans who said they took buses from Montreal because it was actually cheaper than getting a ticket up there. A row of them were behind where me and my buddy were sitting, and things were pretty amiable despite the…

Jesus. What is so difficult about this? My mother is a director at a public library and once had to allow a neo-Nazi group to book a meeting there. It was a horrible thing for her, and the small town we lived in, to go through, but the people who worked at the library recognized that it was their civic duty, as a…

AND a comma splice, you Philistine.

Dammit, I seem to always end up commenting on these articles. I think there's a middle ground. Yes, Drew's right. It is insane to cling to an arbitrary "unwritten rule," and I'm really not an unwritten-rulebook-thumping guy who prays to a Brian McCann idol every night, but at the same time, I can't help but feel like…

I'm by no means a "play the game the right way"-er, but at the same time I agree with Cole here. If someone takes me to the track and pimps his way down the line, I'll probably bark at him when he's standing on third base too, because that's just what you do. I like that they hang on to those stupid traditions.

If the game wasn't so close I bet the zone opens up for Happ a little. Especially on that 3-2 pitch.

You're absolutely right. To keep it brief, I know the dude personally. He's a troubled kid with a good heart and we're all hoping he gets himself in a better place.

McCann: I sense a disturbance in the force.

Why the fuck did I move here?

That's so upsetting. I didn't have any issues with Roku and MLB.tv throughout Spring Training (I think maybe one day it was down for a couple hours so I missed like the Padres Rookie League guys), and Opening Day went pretty smoothly too. I'm from Boston but live in NYC, so the $130 bucks is worth it for me. Only Sox…

The mistake is conflating his performance on the field with his personality. I think it's fair to guess that this is a guy who rubs everyone the wrong way, and because beat writers probably can't get into the gory details of his douchebaggery (because they'd lose the trust of other players in the locker room), they…

Can't you potentially see groups of Indians just saying, "We're good on coats and backhoes right now bro, but could you just switch up the name of the team?"

My dad was a Boston cop, and always had a horrible time dealing with domestic violence. In the '80s and '90s, legislation did so little to empower victims that police often took it upon themselves to "rough up" repeat offenders, the admittedly crude justification being that because they knew the bad guys wouldn't see…

I can't get over how inane all of this is. Sure, it's a pretty bone-headed meme, but to bring some half-baked observational race issue into play is just such a waste of time, and completely misplaced. Basketball players are the least accessible group of professional athletes to which we're exposed, and hockey players…