Here’s the “foul” on Nojel Eastern:

Nah, man. I’m a biased Purdue fan here, but watch the video again—there is very clear and substantial hip-to-hip contact on Carsen’s follow-through. That’s a foul everytime. Think that’s unfair? Check out the second video below, where Purdue’s guard gets called for his leg barely brushing Tennessee shooter’s on the…

I wrote a long response to this and then decided it was a waste of time. I’ll just say that it is a fair point, but I disagree that the statement destroys Barstool’s position in the negotiations.

If you read the counter notice to Twitter, their strategy is clearly to portray themselves as the party that is working in good faith to negotiate a resolution, which makes miel the unreasonable one. The “anxious to settle” language is part of that strategy, and makes sense in that context.

Clevinger as Mitch Kramer is a trash take and you should be ashamed. His hair is way too light. Lincecum will always be Mitch Kramer, because he is Mitch Kramer.

Worth pointing out that Messi was one of those “frauds standing around” as Rakitic scored the clincher. Look at him—he barely moves after Rakitic’s initial shot, turns around to see if the linesman called Kovacic off, and then starts walking back towards midfield. 

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Astros fan here. The Astros’ run-in to the All-Star break is:

White collar criminal defense attorney here: subject is a catch-all category that the DOJ uses for 95% of people they are interested in interviewing. The other alternatives are target (substantial evidence linking them to a crime) and witness (no real exposure). The DOJ basically never categorizes people as a witness…

More likely that they just got fired. Gates hired a lawyer from a more prominent law firm recently, and may not have seen the need for his prior ones.

I remember an interview with AJ Hinch talking about how helpful Beltran was in reading pitchers and letting the Astros’ staff know when they were tipping pitches, so it’s possible the source is Beltran and he doesn’t care about the fact getting out now.

Cowboys fans in Western Pennsylvania!?

Well, Jose Altuve was pretty clear that he “literally love[s] Justin Verlander,” and I think that’s probably a good indication of how the rest of the clubhouse feels about him. I didn’t take the clip of yelling the same way you did, but who knows. None of the Astros seemed to mind.

Meh. As an Astros fan who has watched upwards of 100 of their games this season, Blummer is generally pretty up to speed on sabermetrics and willing to embrace the data analytics approach to the game. It’s a homer comment for sure, but I’m willing to bet that you could find some similarly bad take by scouring all…

Carlos Correa (It sounds like “diarrhea.”)

All of the recaps I have read assume that Bran already knows that Littlefinger planned his murder, but I don’t think that’s right. Bran keeps making comments that what he sees is bits and fragments, that he needs to see more, etc. For example, he clearly didn’t know that Arya came back to Winterfell, even though he…

As an Astros fan, I spent all of 2016 waiting for the Rangers’ luck to run out and their performance to regress to their projections. . . It never happened, and they ended up playing October baseball while the Astros went home and twiddled their thumbs.

This is the correct answer.

Only other option is the 60-day DL, and if all goes well, he should be ready before that expires.

World Series champions by MLB regular season rank in team pitching fWAR: