I’m not sure that was much of a baton-passing moment... rather that Messi had taken a pen earlier, and it’s entirely possible they decided having a new guy take the second one was better than having Messi (who is a rather ordinary penalty taker for someone so goddamn good at literally everything else) take two in a…

Over the past two years alone they’ve lost to the following teams *at home*:
Radford
Monmouth
UNC-Asheville
Arkansas State

The program seems to be run as cleanly as any college program out there - over the past ten or so years there’s been the odd walkon-gets-a-DUI problem or player failing a class and not getting to play in the second semester, but no real “scandals” (other than the team losing games to the likes of Monmouth, Old…

The argument is that they aren’t paying *enough* to justify the increased benefits they derive from those services — not that they aren’t paying at all. Having lots of minimum wage workers on welfare because the minimum wage isn’t a living wage is a fairly prime example of this, I think - nobody would argue that…

The Seguin and Hamilton trades were unmitigated disasters. I suppose it’s possible that they wouldn’t have been able to keep both guys around, because money... but given that the front office has long been prone to re-signing GRIT LORDS like Chris Kelly/Kevan Miller/Adam McQuaid to inexplicable contracts, they don’t…

Fun fact: All pandas are bad, because they don’t fight, run, fuck, or eat more than one thing. #taek

They claimed the remainder of his old contract

That’s... not true about Vick.

You must be fun at parties

“Primitive religion” is, like, really far down the list of problems in “garbage countries like those in the Islamic world” for about 100 different reasons, including the fact that you’re an asshole.

That’s the thing that scares me; once you starting getting capital-C Concussed on routine plays, that when it seems like it’s probably quitting time.

This is perhaps the worst burn.

“He’s not a star or anything”

I was going to write in this year, and then I realized that I would last two sentences before the email devolved into a rant about how much I hate Roger Goodell and the absurd way the NFL handled Ballghazi. Yes, I unironically wear a Free Brady shirt around D.C. that smart-ass friends of mine bought for me, why do you…