This exactly. In a sport where the self-appointed arbiters of Playing The Game The Right Way bring the hammer down on anyone who shows some enthusiasm, on a team seemingly intentionally designed to keep people from caring...Jose made you care. If you wanted to introduce baseball to someone who didn’t follow it, he was…

You said it all better than I could. Jose was an absolute treasure, and it was a privilege to watch him pitch.

Holy hell, there are three of us kicking around here!

Yep. I think it’s actually people older than millennials who incorrectly associate the term only with “kids,” like current college and even high school students, and not people in their late 20s/early 30s.

It should be the same in the middle of the field as it is on the sideline: 2 feet down (or a knee or whatever) and possession of the ball. There will still be a bit of gray area, but it eliminates the utter weirdness of a play like this one. He pins it to his chest with both hands. That’s a catch.

He looked like Michael Vick in Madden 03 pulling away from defenders on that 60-yard TD run. It was hilarious.

I know the NFL’s had some crazy uniform shenanigans in recent years (damn Color Rush), but Carolina showing up dressed as the Cardinals may be the worst of the bunch.

Yep. More of this sick atmosphere and getting absolutely crushed:

I’m 31 years old. The only time this franchise made the Super Bowl in my lifetime was when I was literally an infant...in a game where they got totally dismantled.

I think it makes sense that Barnwell and Lowe didn’t follow him when you look at The Ringer. Grantland’s layout did a better job of visually distinguishing the sports stories from the others (for lack of a better description), and two guys who are known as stellar single-sport writers would have gotten washed away in…

They should’ve just used your Kinja handle as the name of the “rogue employee.”

Topical soundtrack for this match:

What a lot of casual/bandwagon/flag waver US soccer fans fail to realize when we go up against a team like Argentina is that basically every player in their Starting XI would be our best player ever.

Clippers? That’s pretty generous. I was thinking more like the Hornets.

Can you feel the Heat down in your soul? (It’s easy to be catchy when the song basically has like 2 lines repeated over and over again.)

I am going straight to hell for laughing at this. Worth it.

Yep, I think this is pretty much it. Although Djokovic has had the same “arc” as all great athletes...emerging on the scene talented and untested, struggling against the legends of the time, and eventually besting and supplanting them, the beginning of that arc was obscured because everyone was focused on…

Here’s what I think: I think that restaurants should offer small burritos, as an alternative to ones that are the size of tanker trucks.

I’ve heard it so many times that I’ve become numb to it at this point. What’s really scary is hearing someone say “we need to be able to solution with them in a conversation.”

Maryland - Duke (UNC)