Simmons has frequently talked about athletes who rise in popularity and power who do stupid things as being the types of athletes who are never told, “no” by anyone within their inner circle. Which is funny because that’s exactly how I view what’s happened to him. His place as an influential sports personality are…

You know, maybe it is just the audio aspect of it. I kind of agree. But I prefer a male voice, with more bass, with xenophobic opinions, who occasionally costs taxpayers millions of dollars in public funding for a failed video game, and doesn’t totally believe in evolution.

They didn’t fuck him over. They played by the rules agreed to by the players. Those rules provide many financial benefits to the players too. This is not at all comparable to Clemente. And if they had brought him up earlier, he’d still want every dime he could get. They all do.

On the bright side, everyone is talking about Seattle’s bats in October. That never happens...

Easy, just put it on the astros server.

Unfortunately for your opinion, that’s not how copyright law works.

Jeez. Why not just pay the rights holders? Hoping not to get caught, while running such a prominent ad campaign, seems like a huge, unnecessary fantasy football.

I think the real message is being obscured by the people expressing it. Number one, you run out every fucking ball, it doesn’t matter if you think it’s DOA. You’re a professional ballplayer, act like it. Number two, Papelbon is a huge asshole. Not running out a popup is not a reason to grab your teammate by the…

So couple of interesting things going on on the financial side here. The email from Kit Wood (7:12 update) basically sounds like the bankers (Wells Fargo) hired by RIEDC to insure them against exactly what happened (failure of the game and/or 38 Studios) could not find anyone to underwrite the bond. In other words,…

So a group of people dominated an area for many years until outsiders moved in, took over everything, and routinely massacred the original inhabitants. Interesting.

But John Terry really is a cunt.

One of the biggest threats comes from the expansion of oil and gas drilling, including fracking, in places like the Los Padres National Forest.