My half-black son was born Sept 5th, here in Kansas City, while those protests raged across the state. Because the AA communities in StL and KC are so intertwined I actually am friends with one of Micheal Brown’s cousins, and not thru my husband.

Maybe they should just wall off certain sections.

It’s a freak accident. And as you said, it could’ve happened in regular old spring training. Players participate because they find joy and pride, and I think international baseball is cool.

Because the game would be over if he got the ball

You ignored the part where he tried to rape a child. You saw the article and thought, “how can I defend this wannabe child rapist?”

Glad to see that they’re not going all “boys club” and trying to ignore or defend these actions. It’s far too common that these sorts of problems pop up and everyone just wants to sweep it under the rug.

herb

It’s kind of mind-boggling that a team called “The Redskins” could be worse than I imagined.

It’s Pennsylvania. Every one of the cretins in this building should be held responsible.

Can’t remember who it was, but there was an English player with a university degree who would read the broadsheets instead of the tabloids when on the team bus, and his mates thought this made him a toff and they would throw buns at him. Imagine if someone like John Urschel played there.

I always wondered how Tevez thrived playing alongside Rooney considering that neither one of them speaks English.

Yes, the episodes in S6 where she comes back from being dead? Such a good representation of depression and mental illness. And her friends were such dicks to her after literally pulling her back from heaven.

In the vein of problems with Buffy, there’s the whole time when Spike tried to rape her. And this wasn’t when he was a villain!

I loved how Buffy dealt with depression. Those arcs rang true to me, and have stayed with me, for almost fifteen years now.

“He also has a gambling problem, worked for Wikileaks, beat his dog, and had bad B.O. That’s what I heard, anyway.” -Chris Cooley, tomorrow morning, earning his pay as a one of many chief apologists on the Redskins-owned radio station

Mostly White Russians.

When Ron Wolf told Scot that “football is all about cheers and boos,” he may have misinterpreted the advice.

I thought Al Kaline water was mostly bourbon.