I know he slipped a bit last season but I get the feeling everybody just told him “This is getting weird. If you don’t retire now the government is going to dissect you until the find whatever anti aging gene you have” and Tim just sat still for a few seconds before saying “Fine,” and started drawing up the paperwork.

Indeed, only God knows.

“Once California rolls in waiving the flag of inevitablity, most people in the western states will come into the fold—it’s not like they would be under illusions that they would win on their own”

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

All I know is that there must be some VERY chill smallmouth bass swimming in the Mississippi River this spring.

RG3 will have a great run in Cleveland. Too bad they’ll be down 30 to Pittsburgh when it happens.

It’s the middle of March, and this kid is going to Spring Training with his dad everyday? Aren’t kids this young supposed to be in some sort of school setting?

It’s not about greed at all. It’s about fair market value. If player A makes $10 million a year, and you put up better numbers, you deserve more than $10 million. It’s that simple.

They’re amazing, but I hate their hypocrisy. They prance and preen and showboat and it’s all good (and I enjoy it), but when another team beats them and gives it back to them, they suddenly turn into the best fans in basketball and whine how it's disrespectful and unprofessional. They're great, but they have this…

Apple Juche is my favorite kind of Juche.

How old were you when your heart just shriveled up and died?

I live in NOLA and went through Katrina. Was exiled for a year in Houston. Watched my children cry themselves to sleep at night because they couldn’t go home.

I’m not sure that’s true. The last Liberal and Conservative governments in Canada (neglecting Paul Martin, as he wasn’t in office long enough to make a judgement) do conform to that stereotype: under Harper, budgets grew and Canada adopted a more unilateral foreign policy, and it leveraged force; under Chretien,…

I own the second most hated car ever... a New Beetle. I bought it in ‘08. It was 9 years old and had 430,000 km on it. 7 years later, it’s got 680,000 on it... it’s cost me less than $2k in repairs over that time, and I’ve since acquired three more of them, one lifted, one with a VR6 swap, and one that’s basically…

Keep in mind though, smoking bans are in large parts for the benefit of restaurant employees. The clientele may be cool with a couple of cigs over a drink, but the staff is basically exposed to smoke for an entire shift.

This shit is fucking disgusting. This is OUR money being siphoned off into the pockets of military contractors and consultants. It makes me absolutely furious. Our military spending is ludicrous and the system is completely broken, yet anyone who tries to challenge this is accused of being soft on global threats and…

I compulsively hate a lot of analytics dudes (they're always dudes) because they talk shit about Allen Iverson. If you don't love Allen Iverson you don't love basketball.

It would be very interesting to see it happen, and in most circumstances, I would laugh at even the suggestion of this. However, as personal responsibility seems to be an actual factor here. I am interested to know if any charges or additional follow up will occur.

The next question in my mind is whether the not-even-a-slap-on-the-wrist lack of charges will change to... what? Impeding traffic, unsafe lane change, and perhaps reckless driving... as any normal citizen doing the same in sight of a law enforcement officer would have received.

Even though I was, by far, the shortest kid in my class and had shown zero ability to play basketball on anything but an Intellivision, my mother insisted on putting me in the Naval Academy Basketball Camp every summer in the mid-1980s. My dear, misguided, slightly-twisted mother thought that I would somehow grow to…