I bought Mack’s disconcert about Yo-Yo teaching Flint to shoot: when she points out that Flint can handle himself because he’s already killed, Mack says something like, “Yeah, but now he’s starting to enjoy it.” That’s in keeping with Mack as the father-figure (kind of a nice contrast to May as the mother-figure) of…

You know why they let fights happen in hockey? Because the lack of friction on the ice means no meaningful punches land (you’ll notice the refs immediately jumping in to break it up once bodies hit the ice). Two guys expend a lot of energy, it looks like violent things are happening, but, in truth, nothing of…

Isaiah Thomas was never going to be a good fit with the Cavs. He’s a high usage, bad defender who was “the man” on his team (a team who’s success was overblown by the shitty talent in the Eastern Conference). He was brought in as a replacement for the same type of player, only Kyrie was shackled to a subservient role…

George is, obviously, a plus-plus defender, Adams is a good defender, so the delta between the Thunder w/Roberson and w/o Roberson would seem to derive from Roberson compensating for Russell and Carmelo. Since Russell can basically be whatever Russell decides to be at any given moment, I’m thinking this means Carmelo…

I’m not entirely sure what happened in the Nasser case, but there is often a sweetheart relationship between local police, prosecutors, and a university. Simply put, most college towns derive a lot of economic benefit and civic pride from the local university; college towns have a lot in common with the old “company…

Lindsey, I’m sorry you grew up during a time when rampant PEDs rendered MLB something out of EA Sports, but there is so much wrong with your logic here. HOF enshrinement is certainly subjective, but just because a player was a “star” during your childhood doesn’t render them immune to standards of performance and…

ThomasMurphySullivan hits the nail on the head: PEDs primarily affected the users’ competitors who played “clean”. I watched Barry Bonds’s career up close since high school: he was a year behind me at a rival high school and I’ve been a Dodger fan in Giants’ territory my whole life. His path through 1999 was that of a…

Yeah, how is this any different than any one of 20 guys I barbecued with during college?

The way my Gunners have been playing the past two years, we’ll take this and any other cheap goal you want to give us. Even in the - checks notes - Caribou Cup?

Those two fat ball boys are sitting there, thinking, “I could play in the NBA.”

No disrespect to Hoffman, who was a great reliever, but almost no reliever belongs in the HOF. Hoffman played in less than 0.1% of the total innings his teams played during his career. Contrast that with Edgar Martinez, who played in about 70% of his team’s total innings during his career. I don’t think Edgar belongs…

Chris Fowler spends most of his time pimping for college football, fellating Nick Saban while jacking off Urban Meyer, and generally being an odious enabler of a corrupt system built on the unpaid labor of teenagers. Of course he feels that Tennys Sandgren is a “thoughtful guy”.

The NBA is absolutely the worst officiated sport in the world, primarily because refs call a carry once every 28 times it happens, traveling once every 128 times it happens, and shooting fouls so randomly as to make the lottery jealous. If refs called the game correctly and consistently, it would suck for about 20…

Yet another instance in which the PR people need to step up and say, “Guys, I’m going to be completely frank with you: we have zero credibility on this issue. Anything any of us say on this is going to backfire and make us all look like bigger assholes than everyone already thinks we are. So here’s the deal: when…

I basically agree with you, but Edgar’s election should be determined on his merits, not on voting procedures. If 75% of the BBWAA in any given year believe he’s HOF-worthy, even if each one of them believes he’s only the 11th most-qualified that year, he should get in along with the other 10. You and I would believe…

The three things that need to happen here to eliminate the controversy: (1) BBWAA needs to make their ballots public, (2) the HOF needs to man up and just state categorically who is off the ballot due to PEDs, (3) and the ballot needs to be unlimited.

I refused to allow my two youngest children from ever attending Mass for the same reasons Shawn Johnson East won’t put her kid in USA Gymnastics: as much as I knew the chances of my child being victimized by a molester were extremely small, I also knew that, when push came to shove, the Catholic Church would protect…

Gym Mom, thank you for your honesty. But speaking as a parent, your statement that “Gymnastics becomes the drug the girls crave” raises huge red flags to me. No healthy child should have obsessive focus. If something has become “a drug” your child “craves”, there is something wrong. Sometimes, the thing “wrong” is…

Yet another great day for the DLC and moral courage! Wow, I bet Chuck Shumer and Nancy Pelosi will definitely lead the Democrats to saving America from all the damage the Republicans have done over the past 35 years.

No, Ginger; its an extremely accurate headline. You go fuck yourself.