That’s not a good thing.

This demands a special summer Saturday Night Live sketch with Kenan Thompson as LaVar Ball, Cecily Strong as Molly Qerim, and Chris Redd as Stephen A. Smith.

Call me a “stan” all you like. I unapologetically admire this show for its courage in giving us a character who is an admirable person despite having done plenty that is wrong.

I don’t know what show you were watching. But in the actual show, Barry was not going to kidnap Ronny. He was trying to convince Ronny to leave town, by explaining to him that this crazy cop wanted to have him killed. 

In fact you are making me explain to you the difference between a moral position and a practical one.

It’s fine in some contexts, and not so fine in others.

When I was a kid, I went to a doctor whom everyone called “Dr. John”, because his Italian surname was even longer than mine.

However, in a written piece, the standard manner of reference is “Dr. [surname]”, whether about a real or fictional doctor. If there were a…

First of all, Barry did not know that Janice would shoot him only in self-defence. When someone is holding a gun on you, that is definitely not the time to start granting that person benefits of doubts.

I think you might need to find a term other than “nutmeg”.

This is the wrong approach.

Mark Jackson is the basketball equivalent of Joe Morgan: a brilliant and inspirational player who is utterly painful to endure in the booth.

This incoherent rambling is not even good for starting a conversation. It is a kind of professionalised trolling.

As Brighter indicated before me, the exclusionary interpretation of “women’s sports” is what has to go. Women’s sports are for all women.

Furthermore, to spend any time pondering the supposed advantage that trans women might have is to grant undue credibility to the absurd notion that someone is going to undergo the…

Some of the greatest impressions don’t mimic the subjects exactly. They seize on a few quirks and exaggerate them.

A perfect example is Dana Carvey’s Bush. The real Bush never actually said “na ga da”. Another one is Will Jordan’s Ed Sullivan. Jordan invented the primary Sullivan staple “really big shoe”, as well as…

I can understand why Alec Baldwin is sick of doing the Trump impression.

But the impression itself was wonderful. Dripping with contempt, it is epoch-defining. Baldwin’s Trump impression will forever sit alongside Thomas Nast’s devastating drawings of Boss Tweed as one of history’s great carcicatures.

Wow, those are beautiful uniforms on UCLA. Stirrups, even!

The aesthetics of softball uniforms can sometimes get pretty gnarly. But this set is exemplary, as compared to any team in softball or baseball.

On that basis alone, UCLA deserved to win.

The most important thing is that the uniform in which Steve Blass is pictured is so dang beautiful. The Pirates were one of very few teams that looked good in pullovers (the others being the A’s and the Braves). And that shade of gold is gorgeous.

Furthermore, Blass is the author of one of the great quotes. When…

The point of the game is to win the game. Players on a team that is behind are entitled to play to win; and if this includes bunting to get on base, then so be it.

A bunt for a hit in a blowout game is questionable.  A bunt for a hit in a game in which you are trailing by three runs is absolutely defensible.

Anyone who opposes trans women competing in women’s sports is denying the fact that trans women are women. That sort of intellectually dishonest argument is most definitely coming from a place of hate

Seeing Bill Hader’s enjoyment of things related to comedy is so enjoyable. It is similar to Dave Grohl in music. I just love the attitudes of both of those guys.

“But Ruiz obviously couldn't [not ‘could’] care less...”