I'm honestly going to sit down with my coach and see if I can play football within the NFL rules and still be effective. If not, I may have to give up playing football.

fornicating horse

@Gottliebs Cards: +1

@Tulos_Mullet: Related and chuckle-worthy:

Whatever. Texas has claws and antlers, New York has dickheads and brass fucking balls. What's important is that A-Rod thinks all four look great on him in the self-portrait he just commissioned.

Not surprisingly, Nicko McBrain's side business as Plumber Of The Beast earns far less widespread attention.

@InSinSeer: Does running Deadspin count as "reigning in Hell?"

Hey Michael Stipe, wasn't this supposed to happen only on quiet nights? Cause I'm not sure all these people understand.

@NoirJuggling: Good call, I wasn't even aware that existed.

I furiously defended my beloved baseball playoffs on the earlier post, but I have to agree with the complaints about the TBS coverage. I think their announcers are OK really, certainly more informative than Buck and McCarver. But how many first pitches of innings did we miss in lieu of panoramic views of Yankee…

it was clear he was joking, and was needling Del Rio for trying to extend the game, only to have it backfire on him with another Titans score.

@Daveinva: Oh I agree with all that. That's basically what Barry said in the original post. Sure, each NFL game means more in the regular season, no question. And I have always enjoyed that about football myself.

You can PAUSE Madden.

@Daveinva: I guess I get that perception, but it's not really all that accurate. Maybe it's MLB's fault for not adequately promoting what parity they do have, but since 1995 all but 4 MLB teams have made the playoffs at least once, and of those all but 2 have made it multiple times. And to carry it further, 3 of the 4…

@Prick Top: +1

So based on the below comments, you'd assume all these people who don't watch solely because big, bad evil teams like the Yankees are buying championships would enjoy watching some upstart team come out of nowhere to pretty thoroughly dominate them for 26 out of 27 innings, right? Oh wait...

@Hecuba and a Polo: Exactly. For all non-fans' bitching about those stupid Yankees and Red Sox, those are precisely the teams non-hardcore fans actually tune in to watch. EVERYONE watched the Red Sox comeback against the Yankees in 2004, then immediately went back to bitching about how those 2 teams are ruining…

@Tulos_Mullet: "No one wants to watch a league where the same teams buy the best players every year."

Can we replace John Salley Story Corner with a feature where Ken Tremendous explicates the NY Post comment section? Every time a Post article is linked, I come away from it upset and offended but with no idea why. I'm pretty sure those comments on this story are blatantly and callously racist, but they're so far…

Following a belated DVR viewing of the game, I need to recognize an incredible once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. McCarver informed me of something mildly interesting tonight. When he talked about the hitters' instinctive reaction to flinch or jump back at Lincecum with his jerky thrusting delivery, I actually hadn't…