“Baseball players keep open minds when they’re not doing well.”

If you have finished in the top 3 of the MVP voting for three years in a row, you don’t change anything. You don’t change your stance, you don’t change your underwear, and you sure as hell don’t cut your hair.

While I always knew he was not a talented writer (I mean, he was publishing next to Hunter S. Thompson. It was a Delonte West as second-fiddle to LeBron scenario), he was one of the first that I became exposed to who wrote about shit I cared about instead of writing old-man lectures on the right way to play the game.…

I believe you’ve just described Garnetting.

For the same reason why you couldn’t refer to the receivers on the Fred-Ex era Eagles as “skill players,” you cannot refer to the talking heads that appear on ESPN as “talent.”

“Military service and sacrifice are a big part of what the Twins organization stands for.”

+1 more tarnished New England dynasty

Best sportswriter ever?

Oh I agree that he’s doing the right thing now from a PR standpoint. But as Barry pointed out, Yanks fans still booed him this season. The fans have accepted him because he is playing surprisingly well for a team that is also playing surprisingly well (at least relative to preseason expectations).

Does it really require an explanation? Their star QB has been very strongly implicated in an attempt to cheat, which, given his comments in January, makes him a liar. However, he team will more likely than not be very good next year and Brady will almost certainly continue to play exceptionally well. Therefore, Pats…

Fans are amazingly forgiving people when their team is winning and the team’s disgraced jackass is playing well. Recent notable examples include Pittsburgh Steelers football, FSU football, and soon, New England Patriots football.

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Jon Stewart: “Tommy...you cheating fucker.”

It will be interesting to see where Bill “I asked for more money than my employers were willing to pay for someone whose only shtick is making unnecessarily long and unfunny fake nick names for athletes which is now a crutch that I use in place of forming an actual opinion about the athlete in question but hey I…

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“she’s certainly had enough time to tutor kids”

“the Portland Thunder is”

Did he run out of time while shaving? Did he drop the razor in the toilet? Did his teammates prank him? I’ll believe literally any scenario you can describe other than “he meant for it to look like that.”

It’s a proven fact that Mike Bianchi is the worst writer in history. He’s the asshole who always carries water for the murderer and liar George O’Leary

Did we ever get a solid explanation as to why his application to withdraw was rejected? It seems like the common sense thing to do would have been to stick him in the supplemental draft.