Molina was more deserving than McCutchen? Based on what? Your own subjective judgment? There has to be some criteria upon which awards for "most-" something are based. Offensive WAR numbers may not be perfect, but they do a pretty good job of assessing the relative offensive value of players (defensive WAR, not so…

Gomez over Molina is SABRmetrics over old school "grit". Gomez dominated Molina by either B-R's or Fangraphs's WAR stats.

There is a difference between voting Molina highly and voting him highest. Under no reasonable metric (including "intangibles") was Molina the best player in the NL this year and voting him first is lazy homerism. Molina has been one of the most consistently productive players and one of the very best catchers…

We, as a species generally and a nation specifically, consistently disappoint me with our selfishness, ignorance, and needless cruelty. And then something like this happens and I feel better. Thank you San Francisco and thank you Batkid!

I'd love to see a return of the nickname "Ace".

The NCAA enforcement regime is a farce. In their defense, they don't have nearly enough resources to match up against Alabama, USC, Kentucky donors who will assist their schools in covering up any and all infractions. Having said that, they do end up producing the most pathetic record of under-responding to severe…

I am in the minority today, but I never liked Ali and fail to understand why he is such an icon. As a kid, I rooted for Frazier, because Ali was such an asshole; I really saw Ali as just a bully. Today, looking back, it appears to me that Ali never really stood up to the man so much as protected his own skin in…

Yeah, I think the ship sailed on this headline after his freshman year at Stanford.

While the Red Sox are technically a last-to-first team, they are more accurately a injury-plagued-disappointingly-underachieving-but-highly-paid-to-first team.

If there is anyone or any team deserving of looking like a Creamsicle, its Melo and the Knicks. BTW, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the most perfect Onion sports headline ever: "Dribbling Carmelo Anthony Demands Ball" http://www.theonion.com/articles/dribb…

Rob Schneider had a hilarious bit about how "dude" was the most versatile word in the language because it could convey so many things based solely on different inflections: "Hey; what's up?"; "Oh boy, did you blow it!"; and "Are you hiding behind the door with a kitchen knife about to kill me?" Obviously, I'm not…

There are a few moments that continue to send shivers down my spine many years after my first exposure to them: Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech; Al Michaels's "Do you believe in miracles" call; and "Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!" from the crowd after James Caan scores the final goal in defiance of John Houseman and…

I lift weights at the local Y; everybody from the community works out there. The point of exercise, regardless of what type, is to put the musculo-skeletal and corresponding nervous system under stress; the body's recovery from that stress results in compensation that manifests in stronger blood flow, more effective…

Preach Erin. My wife walks the local hills religiously and is constantly exasperated by her apparent failure to lose weight. I say, "Look; the cardio is great, but you need something to build muscle mass (increasing her metabolic burn rate) and put strain on your musculo-skeletal system to maintain bone density:…

I particularly liked the 867-5309 format, but actually think the 3.5-3.5 format would be interesting. Stop game 4 at half-time, have both teams fly to the lower seed's arena and continue the game the same day (regardless of how long the flight is).

I root for Arsenal because my coach named our team after them, then set us down after a practice to explain why. He was Northern Irish who had moved to London as a kid and we could barely understood a single thing he ever said (except for the constant "for fook's sake!"), but I can remember that even at the age of…

I have the complete opposite reaction: I liked the old bowl system and was fine with the occasional co-champions. First, football is nothing like basketball because of the limited number of games any team can play. By the time March rolls around, schools have played enough basketball games against a relatively large…

Why do all Russian cars seem to be equipped with video cameras? This seems like an odd upgrade, unless it is the situation that Russian drivers have a need to video events in front of them (insurance fraud?)

Why do all Russian cars seem to be equipped with video cameras? This seems like an odd upgrade, unless it is the situation that Russian drivers have a need to video events in front of them (insurance fraud?)

We will be arguing about how LSU or Auburn got screwed out of the 4th slot in favor of a one-loss Ohio State team. After five years of that, they will expand the playoff to 8 teams and we will argue about Oklahoma or Missouri getting screwed out of the 8th slot by an overranked Louisville squad. Moving on from…