I agree with your sentiment, but I would say “Denouncing racism and bigotry unequivocally ≠ talking about politics = good whether anyone calls it politics or not”.

Damn, I wish I could peruse his hate mail right about now. Thank God for him the chuds are too stupid to know that “Le Batard” means “The Bastard” in French. Otherwise he’d be inundated with awful jokes of that sort.

If they get this guy, his sentence should be that he has to call in to Mike Francesa’s show once per day for the rest of his or Francesa’s life.

Here’s to hoping that he and his fellow felons get pardons.

The owner of a certain football team in Landover, Maryland begs to differ. 

Long live the thesaurus!

Aww man, why are you hating on the thesaurus? I think it adds some nice variety. You can only write “coward” in a paragraph so many times before getting repetitive. Also, anyone who has read the A Song of Ice and Fire series knows “craven”; it’s one of Martin’s go-to words.

Surprisingly, neither did the Catholic Church for like the first thousand years of its existence. For the most part, they even looked the other way if it was priest on priest sex. I’ve read some absolutely beautiful love letters from the 11th Century written from monks to other monks in different monasteries with whom…

Yeah, but in this case, the fact that she was also cheating might skew the reaction to the spouse’s infidelity. Like, you can only get so mad or upset if you’re also doing the same thing. She might have had a different opinion if she thought everything was going perfectly only to then walk in on her husband fucking…

Yes! Also, with promotion/relegation from/to what is now the G League, it would be only a matter of a few years before the Westchester Knicks were regularly trouncing the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. It will also be great to see the Fort Wayne Mad Ants make a run in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Players who accepted it could become, in media portrayals, grasping untradeable albatrosses who’d recklessly crippled their own teams. Players who declined it, preferring choice and leverage in free agency, could be portrayed as no-less-grasping insurrectionists wrecking the league so they can play with their buddies…

You’re probably right about that, though if Inter is back the way they claim they are and Napoli keep up their recent form, Juventus might actually have to put more effort into winning the scudetto this coming season than they did in years past. I’m not saying they won’t win, but they might not coast as easily as they…

...shunning those deemed unfit to bring their political takes past stadium security...

Yeah but Greenberg is in better shape for his profession. Sports talk hacks with BMIs under 30 are frowned upon. Why do you think Francesa is such a legend? It’s because he hasn’t gone for a walk since the last time St. John’s won the Big East tournament. 

I agree. We should also consider that the current champions just wont the title without a single lottery pick player on their roster.

Didn’t you hear? Closed circuit TV footage proved that Philippides cheated. The Greeks were stripped of their marathon achievement and the victory was retroactively awarded to the Persians. History problem solved.

Oh, you’re totally right in that the show has been character-driven across both seasons, and that it is good because of that. I guess Season 1 felt a bit more tied together (in my mind anyway) because it opened and closed with the “murder mystery” whereas this season is a bit more open. This isn’t necessarily a bad…

I think the central conflict (i.e. potential legal fallout from Perry’s death) is a bit thin. Aside from one of the characters cracking (which could happen), there is basically no way for any of them to be brought to trial over the killing, much less convicted. I think this becomes a moot point though because all of…

You’re mostly right, but let’s give the men some credit. Failing to qualify for the World Cup by losing to already-eliminated Trinidad & Tobago was pretty interesting. 

Yeah, I mean, “Daily Mail—Pravda for people named Fauntleroy” is pretty spot on.