The Astros and Royals (I’m not positive on the Cubs) had strong minor league organizations upon which to base their rebuilds. They could legitimately say they were in “suck now in order to build for the future” mode. The Marlins have absolute shit in their minor league pipeline. Historically, they have demonstrated…

This is just run-of-the-mill corporate excuse making. The fact that they’ve put a mediocre product on the field can’t possibly be the answer.

Although it contains a lot about how criminal investigations and trials work, the Constitution is relatively silent on how prisons are supposed to work. You can’t subject someone to “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th Amendment. My guess is that once you’ve provided for a prisoner’s basic food, shelter, and…

A Q clearance is a DOE clearance. So, energy related classified info, like nuclear power plants, the power grid, those sorts of things. Its not a military, spy, or diplomatic clearance. Those kind of clearance are totally different, conducted by a different organization, and are, almost entirely, compartmentalized…

Everyone expected the Thunder to have games like this, where all 3 of the mismatched stars threw out a good game on the same night. The question has always been whether that will translate into winning.

I think as far as sports pundits go (as opposed to sports announcer/color commentators and sports journalists), I think Le Batard is fairly good. His hot takes are usually better thought out than, say, Cowherd’s or Stephen A.’s.

The NBA has always had extremely flexible standards for “official” stats.

You are simply wrong. Kaepernick was hardly the second coming of Joe Montana, but he was a good QB on a good team for a year and a half. Then he had the misfortune of being a good QB on an injury-ravaged 8-8 team. Then Jed York’s feelings got hurt, he blew up the team, hired an aluminum-siding salesman as Head Coach,…

I don’t really see what the end game is here for Jeter and his team.

“I understand your frustration and I do apologize for the hitshooting you! In no way was I trying to hurt you. My first instinct was turn and make a blockto shoot my gun. In all sincerity I do apologize. I truly respect you as a playerperson and I made a mistake!”

God, it will be so good to see the NFL suffering massive damage from the defection of its own moron fan contingent. It will be like how the Republican party has been destroyed by its own cultivation of the wing-nut Tea Party base. Oh; wait . . .

Or just everyone calling them the RedHawks. Snyder and his atrocious minions can yell and stamp their feet all they want, but the RedHawks are here to stay.

MLS can’t decide what it wants to be: (1) a professional sports league, competing with the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. for the sports fan’s dollar or (2) a development pipeline for US Soccer. It can’t be both. Right now, its neither.

I would have to agree with #tabletopper: the EPL is hardly a good example of uncompetitiveness in soccer. The story of European pro soccer (which has been consistently regarded as the “best” pro soccer in the world) is the story of the haves and have-nots. Over the past 20 years: 

- La Liga has been won by either Real…

Trammell first became eligible in 2002, when HOF voters (who have traditionally been older-skewing) generally did not embrace modern analytics. During his 15 years on the ballot, only 7 position players had appreciably higher value for their career than Trammell did: Boggs (2005), Ripken (2007), Henderson (2009),…

The whole purpose of the Veterans Committee (which has now been divided into 3 separate era-based groups) is to “make up” for a deserving player getting caught up in the BBWA criteria for HOF voting or for attitudes about value changing over time. A voter can only select 10 names and you have to get 5% of the vote to…

This is great, because Trammell definitely belongs in the HOF (and I’m a “small Hall” guy), but it kind of sucks because (1) Lou Whitaker deserves it more and (2) Jack Morris doesn’t deserve it. And I’m not even a Tigers fan.

File this as entry 1,748 in the “Great Players Don’t Make Great Management” file. The opposite file pretty much consists of only Kenny Dalglish, Franz Beckenbauer, Jerry West, maybe Larry Bird, and Joe Torre.

My friend Tim was our starting center my junior year and once fouled out in the first 5 minutes of the game, 0 points, 0 rebounds. He sat down next to me on the bench and said, “I guess I should get started on my math homework.”

Do all NFL teams now carry a backup QB named “Nate” that no one has ever heard of, just to avoid having to sign Kaepernick? “Sorry, we’d love to sign you, but we don’t have any chairs left. That’s Nate’s chair. See; no collusion here.”