It was a force. Did they score this as an error? Because the end result was the same as if he'd made the catch (1 out, man at first).

Its my understanding that nicknames were exactly that until the early 20th century: unofficial names that were promulgated by sportswriters and variously adopted by fans. That's why the Cleveland Indians franchise were called the Cleveland Naps for a number of years (in honor of their greatest player, Nap Lajoie) and…

How was it scored? A single?

No, willfully ignorant people are idiots who should be laughed at. True idiots and people who have done some analysis of the facts and come to a different conclusion than us should not be laughed at. Young Earth creationists are neither of those (well, I suppose they could be true idiots, but that is a different…

Dude! Look at the facts. His record was above 0.600. Bruce Pearl is cheater who would have had the Vols on NCAA probation if hadn't been fired. I have no sense of how good a coach Martin is, but if you're using Bruce Pearl as your performance model and still having to fudge facts to support your argument, you've…

Calling an annual 21-14 record "pretty pathetic" means you've lost perspective and have ridiculously unrealistic expectations for performance. Tennessee has a Big School athletic department, but they've never been a consistent basketball powerhouse, in the same tier as the Kentuckys, Kansases, and UNCs; expecting. …

Because (1) there is new information about police incompetence and (2) most importantly, the more the press highlights these type of miscarriages of justice, the less likely future investigations will be easily swept under the rug. That's the theory at least . . .

Jesus fucking Christ. That coach deserves to be banned from the league for not immediately pulling that kid. I'm surprised Republicans are haranguing about the European pussification of American basketball and the flop. Fuck that kid.

This argument is even more ridiculous when applied to football. The worst team in the NFL would beat the BCS champion (or a college all-star team) by 4 touchdowns on a bad day.

I find it odd that 3 shows I watch, Justified, GoT (both of which I love) and The Following (eh) all feature crows as commercial bumper symbols. Everytime I see a crow in the parking lot, I'm positive it is looking at me. Knowingly. Biding its time.

Let it go, man. Just go over to the MLB site and watch it there. I did, its exactly as you anticipated it, but I wouldn't have known to do that but for this Deadspin article.

I agree that if you had a strict free-market approach to paying college athletes, it wouldn't work under the current statutory regime ("Welcome to the National Championship game, where for the 17th consecutive year, Alabama plays USC to see who is America's best football company!") But the slippery slope fear you…

Not saying you're wrong, but I would like someone to weigh in on the accuracy of your belief that public school players can't unionize.

The D.C. Bro is just a variant of the more widely distributed "lax bro". They are ubiquitous in New England and are now becoming the go to aspiration for upper-middle class boys out here in California.

This case is such a cluster-fuck. The Tallahassee police and district attorney have just made a hash of this for everybody. If Winston had non-consensual sex with the girl, she is a victim twice-over: once by the boys involved and again by the justice system. If Winston did not do it, he is having his life forever…

Ahhh. He was a dick through and through.

Was Cobb a wife-beater? I know he was a racist cracker and beat up a disabled heckler and was generally an asshole, but I didn't realize he hit women. If so, then that's the last straw; I'm throwing out my Cobb jersey.

I think you've basically summarized WAR fairly well. What you've done "wrong" is undervalue what "7 games worse" actually means in the real world. 95 wins makes the playoffs, while an 88 win season usually puts the manager on the hot seat going into the next season.

The words "activist" and "has a sense of humor" are impossible to combine in a sentence. We always need people on the front-line of an issue who are willing to destroy their lives by devoting it to a single issue. But needing them and "enjoy shooting the shit with them over a drink" are two entirely different things.

That was the point dumb-ass.