There was a cartoon in the New Yorker once that showed two scientists talking in front of a blackboard that contained a dense, very complicated looking equation, the last element of which (before the equal sign) was a box in which was written “Then a miracle happens.” The one scientists says to the other, “This part…

“you have treat conference championship games as the defacto first round.”

“No, the only good answer here is also the obvious one: expand the playoff.”

I’m not sanguine about either Vlad or Hoffman getting in.

Manny is just not going to happen because of the PEDs. Removing PEDs from that context, and Ramirez (along with McGwire, Palmeiro, Sosa, and Sheffield) are absolutely deserving of enshrinement, but unlike Bonds and Clemens (both of whom put up HOF resumes before PEDs), its impossible to disconnect Manny and the others…

Both players should have been flogged for this.

That last drop. Man. I am the furtherest thing from a Browns fan, but that was easily the biggest boof I’ve seen at the professional level in a long, long time. My immediate thought was that he missed it intentionally, like some kind of psychologically fucked-up, “I’d rather be infamous for going 0-16 than just…

Curt Schilling is an atrocious moron. No one should be his friend.

Manfred is just channeling the current management fad of complaining about honest news coverage. Why make the effort to think through reasonable responses to expected tough questions about bad decisions (or, for that matter, just making reasonable decisions in the first place) when you can just blame the messenger…

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 . . .