Those are the Masseys (-ey, not -ie), but I guess he could be some cadet branch of that family. This guy, apparently, lives in an off-the-grid house, though.

There are two key differences between the Lakers and the Knicks, though. First, there are no in-their-prime stars who remember the Knicks being anything but mediocre-to-bad, whereas the Lakers were consistently good-to-great during said stars’ childhoods.

Drafted between Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, baby!

I’m never joking when I say this, but the Nets will sign an A-list free agent before the Knicks do. Being competent and well-run is way better than...playing in Madison Square Garden or whatever the sell is there.

Taillon also got hit in the head in 2016, had TJ, missed a season because of a sports hernia, and has had cancer. Guy has insanely bad luck.

...by joining the army and getting killed in Iraq?

North Texas.

This reminds me of a chestnut I was once told, which was, until the Perrys and the Niekros, the Mathewson brothers were the all-time leaders in wins by brothers, Christy having 373 and Henry having 0.

As always, the death penalty is a moral horror and should be banned (to the extent of banning death by incarceration as well).

Did GG renounce his American citizenship when he moved to Brazil or something? Actually curious on this.

The difference between Obama and Buttigieg is that Obama’s name, for all it’s foreignness, is phonetic and easy to pronounce. I think the real barrier isn’t “this name sounds foreign,” but rather “how do you say this name?”

Both Lansing and Buffalo have a far higher percentage of black residents than Troy does (Buffalo having a far higher one than Lansing, too). This guy is just trying to stir the pot.

It’s probably tax deductable, which would be nicer if minor leaguers made enough to itemize.

Yeah, exactly. I think there’s a town in Kentucky that does the same thing, too.

West Mexico sounds like a town in Missouri (possibly with a deeply non-standard pronunciation, a la Cairo, IL or Versailles, PA).

Please tell me this wasn’t a negotiating point. “He was accused of rape.” “Oh, okay, let’s make that first round pick a second rounder then.”

Colgategate.

No, that was later (he was on a team with DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic). This was the Taj Gibson/Nick Young/Gabe Pruitt team.

The best one from many years of shitty Pirates fandom was Ryan Doumit walking up to “Mother.” Doumit’s whole vibe was “dude from rural Washington who likes Danzig.”

Rick Barnes is definitely a good coach—I mean, he’s one of like 6 people to take multiple teams to #1 and he made Clemson relevant for a second—but he has a well-deserved reputation for kind of crapping the bed in March.