Oakland may be in a very large metro area but is still “small market” because the majority of that area is loyal to the Giants and doesn’t give a shit about the A’s. The Giants have all the power in that media market, to the extent that they get a say over where the A’s could relocate to if they did so while staying…

Can’t speak for every player with an ugly beard but if you’re referring to the picture of Buchholz with his wet diddler looking beard, the 2013 Sox’s thing was everybody on the team grew out beards. I think Napoli started it and got everyone to do it if I’m remembering correctly. Many of them were fantastic, many of…

It’s always more debt.

You don’t need to call it Twins squirrel, that’s local college mascot Goldy the Gopher (whose designing artist had never before seen a gopher but went for it anyway and wound up with some half squirrel, half chipmunk hybrid monster).

if there is anyone I’d trust to find a way, it’s this franchise.

Holy shit, that was this guy? What happened to him????? Or has he always looked like that? I never would have guessed “former pro athlete” in looking at him, even with the knowledge he is on a pro coaching staff.

Chase Blackburn looks like an index finger

hahahaha fuck you too, guy. Your tears are delicious.

He’s been with so many other teams I forgot he actually ever played for you guys.

There’s not a chance this dude isn’t running through multiple 8 balls a day

That’s the entire point of venture capital, growth for new and early stage companies is capital intensive and not profitable. Investors will give you the money knowing it’s basically being lit on fire in the short term in order to have a stake in what they believe will grow into a lucrative business in the long term.…

This is the greatest comment I’ve ever seen, take all my stars

Actually, when considering the amount of turnover every NFL roster goes through over the course of each offseason, and again through the season as injuries accumulate, guaranteeing their contracts wouldn’t make the players any less disposable in the business model. Instead they would become worse paid to account for…

I think that was his point about the whole thing saying at least as much about the Bills for having thrust Peterman into this situation in the first place when we all know the guy doesn’t belong in the league.

Buddy I don’t know who Ron Baker is, but I’m pretty sure that picture is of a Gronkowsik brother in a floppy hair wig.

Fucking love it. I was born in ‘93 so I was never the right age to enjoy it during its heyday but I’ve binged the fuck out of it multiple times on Hulu and it’s a great show. I see it as the PG, network TV predecessor to the hilarious nihilistic shows of my generation like Always Sunny. Really love the creative…

You make a good point. To clarify my position a bit, I don’t entirely disagree. There are many different motivations different people have for wanting the job, and that’s fine. There are also times to go for it from a personnel perspective, and that’s fine too. What I meant, is regardless of why you took the job, you…

GM’s can and do get shitcanned all the time, but that can’t be your attitude if you’re the GM. If it is, why even do the job at all? And to the owner, why even hire someone with that outlook? That doesn’t mean your vision will magically fall in to place and you’ll never lose your job because of whatever culpability…

which is especially a shame because there are lots of really great PBP and color guys in the sport (Orsillo, Krukow, Kuiper, Eckersly, O’Brien, Remy, Darling, Hernandez - hell, I even love TV A-Rod, and plenty others) and the big networks spent years trying to force Joe Buck and Joe Morgan and other old fuds down our…

You raise a good point, however their strategy was “burn it all down several years in advance of a free agent class that could swing the balance of power of the league for the next 5 to 10 years to sign multiple superstars from that free agent class”. Just like the first phase of that plan ten years ago, to come away…