He’s so gifted his playoff yips are a strange puzzle. He’s arguably the greatest pitcher ever (certainly in the regular season). However, these chokes cant be hidden from his record.

He is statistically the best pitcher of his generation, and statistically an argument could very well be made for Kershaw being the GOAT. I would say Pedro, him, Koufax, Maddux, Clemons, Randy Johnson are the 6 best pitchers ever. 

Me too. I was also false accused (and fortunately all charges dropped), I definitely agree with you. Let this play out first before assigning guilt. It’s also a civil case not a criminal case which, I suspect, does in fact matter here. 

The sad thing is white people tend to need overt, flagrant, uncomfortably obvious acts of racism or prejudice in order to ‘believe’ the act to be racist when racism is often encoded in more subtle but equally pernicious forms. The Italian FA is going to have real problems attractive talent with stories like this.…

A question for the crowd: is Eli Manning a HOFer?

The only thing I learned from reading the comments section is that there are a ton of uninformed douche bags who have no understanding what innocent until proven guilty means. Ronaldo haters on suicide watch :) 

Did you know Cristiano Ronaldo is the widely regarded as the most charitable athlete in the world and has never ever been convicted of rape.

Sorry if I came off as a douche but I read a ton of dead spin articles on soccer and I routinely see nothing but absolute derogations and slander every time Ronaldo’s name is brought up. This week was the first time I really attempted to disabuse anybody reading the comments section of some of the myths about…

Thats an easy ball for any decent fullback. I’ve seen Cancelo himself play better balls. As a former player you should also know that without him setting up the pass to Cancelo himself (he played the ball outwide), he invites the pass by immediately sprinting. If Cancel misses Ronaldo I suspect he gets benched at…

Fair point. I misconstrued his general thesis. But i do think Cristiano Ronaldo has a certain reductionist element to his advanced age game that is underappreciated: he has made crossing, an inefficient form of scoring, into a seemingly efficienct strategy....As for his all-round game, real pros know he’s freak. He…

Ronaldo is always seemingly scoring headers unmarked, I guess every defender in all of Europe’s big clubs must suck at defending and has nothing to do with his incredible movement AND his vision. He played his own “pre-assist” to Cancel and out ran guys 10 years his junior for a header that stop required fantastic…

Billy is absolutely spot on.

That goal doesn’t happen if Ronaldo doesn’t pass it to Cancelo to begin with. And that cross is effectively to nobody if Ronaldo doesnt make the run (the only one on the pitch to recognizable the space).

So in other words, anybody who doesn’t conform to your brand of commentarian group-think is persona non-grata?

The same Ronaldo that was named Forbes most charitable athlete in the world like 3 straight years? The guy that anonymously pays for the brain surgery of poor Indonesian kids? You mean the preening narcissist that supports a two-state solution on the Gaza Strip? The douchebag Ronaldo who DONATES his original…

Lol spoken like someone who has never kicked a football in any real sense of the word.

He’s the Randy moss of soccer. He out-athletes world class athletes on the soccer pitch. His proprioception and the motor coordination required to track ball flight is alien. Grantland - prior to becoming the last vestige of “journalism” at ESPN - had a great article on Ronaldos prowess in the air. It turns out that Ro…

Jokes aside, why do you assume he’s guilty of rape without being privy to all the facts?

Incorrect. His name is correctly spelled Roethlisberger. Fixed it for you.

I presume you were in the room with Ms. Mayorga?