The announcer totally pulled a Hawk Harrelson, who traditionally greets a walk-off RBI by the “bad guys” with several seconds of silence.

Sale really needs to cinch it up and hunker down. LaRoche may have gotten a cookie and couldn’t do anything with it, but the situation is no can of corn for Williams, who has ducks on the pond.

I live in dowtown Chicago and had never heard of SantaCon until now, so here at least it has a long LONG way to go before catching up to the intolerable shitstorm of St. Patty’s (which was celebrated on Saturday, btw).

Marshawn Lynch would like to have a word regarding your investment strategy.

Look, people — no doubt this was a terrible call, an appalling display of poor sportsmanship by Cibulkova, and of course Russia is just the worst in general. But I think it should be pointed out that A) Cibulkova is Slovak (not Russian) and B) the umpire is obviously as French as his Pepe le Pew accent. Let’s focus…

You don’t have to imagine — there is already no “Wiscosin.”

Punk-ass POS didn’t “redeem” anything. A true dirty bastard.

Deer Hunter is a terrific 90-minute film trapped in a mediocre 3-hour one.

Maradona took his team by the hand and led them past England, for sure.

Here’s the thing no one mentions: Seattle’s coaching staff can get away with this relatively unemotional, “you tip your hat to the other team” attitude because they won it all in dominant fashion the previous year.

McCarthy would have kicked the field goal.