This. Maddux definitely needed someone cerebral enough to keep up with him—we’re talking a guy who memorized at-bats the way LeBron now claims to memorize the plays of everyone he’s ever gone against. Also, C Eddie Perez was usually a better hitter than some of the other Braves in those 76-pitch complete games.…

Sure, fans love runs! Until you realize that more runs = longer games. Longer games = drop in viewer retention. Drop in viewership = decline in value of tv contracts (Ha! Okay maybe not yet—but reduce the players’ take of the haul just in case).

I don’t know where they go from here, but I know the only redzone that actually matters for the Raiders is Gruden’s face.

Medvedev really shouldn’t have skipped taking those Pre-Nadal vitamins.

“The team doesn’t look out for you. When the team is ready to move on, or they think you make too much money, or you’re not giving them what they need, they cut you or trade you like that.”

Is Terry Reardon an alternate personality that Drew assumed while he was under, and then used to write to himself from beyond the waves of the subconscious? So many similarities in prose.

For all we know he was just addressing Mayock’s unquenchable thirst for some Uncle Kracker.

“I’m not sure why people are mad at me for making money off of things where I just show up and do what I’m told and perform admirably, without thinking for myself at all. Every coach I’ve ever had has loved me for this.” -Drew Brees

TFW you turned off the Bears game in favor of more exciting late-night cutlery infomercials.

Came here for this, was not disappointed +1

Imagine the tantrums and exaggerations if one of these storms comes along and wipes Mar-A-lago off the map.

No team called the goddamn Lions should ever quash a majestic hairstyle. This coach belongs somewhere decidedly more Spartan.

Always just made me want to smoke up and make some eggs.

I’m happy for him and not surprised at all—watching him on the Cubs, he always felt right on the edge of putting it all together, provided he could get the regular everyday starts. It’s hard to dig out of a slump when you don’t have the at bats to dig out of a slump. That bad teams help stars emerge simply by not havin…

It’s really too bad that SF doesn’t have an MLS team to declare a domestic terrorist organization.

I gave up watching a few years ago because of the league’s Roman-coliseum treatment of the players as disposable vessels to break and toss into a pit. I thought it’d be really hard to leave behind, because I thought I loved football so much. Instead, the freedom of having my Sunday completely open with no planning…

While I truly appreciate your use of language and the restraint, someday I hope “loaded with Americans” will be a much higher number than 3. I know, I know, we’ve all contracted MLS and have yet to find a cure.

Aboslutely no way to Bury the Leeds here. 

Gotta love that whoever directed this put the subtitles in futura so they could feel like a $5 Wes Anderson.

Shortlist for COTY as far as I’m concerned. +1