It’s now noon EST.  I’m not sure how Dave Roberts still has a job.  He was never particularly good, and I think managers get too much credit for success and too much blame for failure, but this was squarely on him.  That was possibly the worst managerial job I’ve ever seen in an elimination game, save maybe for Joe…

I have a couple takeaways from this.

Owners always try to push the envelope to see how much the customer is willing to pay.  That’s what has always set ticket prices (certainly not player salaries).  I think most if not all MLB teams have finally found their breaking point.  Yet, somehow, despite a vastly inferior on-field product and live experience,…

Nickelback has finally contributed something to the world...

So... what you’re saying is that cycling was actually interesting for once...

Well, the conditions you just laid down for chili to be healthy—lean meat, no salt, tiny portion—defeats the purpose of having chili to begin with. You need fatty ground meat...

It’s easy to say that without having experienced it. And it’s the right thing to do, no doubt. And many people would react in that way, and they’re heroes. But it doesn’t mean that the people who don’t react that way cowards or bad people or weak or any other negative adjective. It just means (most likely) that they…

Posted this on the partner thread on Deadspin, but it’s too powerful a memory to only post once... I believe that the “I thought this gentleman was decapitated” at 1:54 may be my uncle. He is 6'9" and way too tall to ride one of the slides, but naturally, there were no warning signs. The results were truly nauseating. …

I’m sure you speak from a wealth of experience, knowing exactly what a person would and should do in any traumatic situation...

The “I thought this gentleman was decapitated” at 1:54 is very likely the story of my uncle. His neck is fused and he has no mobility in it whatsoever, but it’s a miracle he wasn’t paralyzed or worse. He is 6'9" and was way too tall for one of the water slides, but of course there was no height restriction. He is…

The “I thought thought this gentleman was decapitated” at 1:54 is my uncle. He’s still unable to move his neck from all the surgeries, but he somehow wasn’t paralyzed and the settlement money is still accruing interest.

Or he was in a state of total shock???? I know I’d be in shock, and probably not thinking clearly.  And McQuery ultimately did go to the authority.  Joe Paterno was bigger than the police, bigger than the AD, bigger than anyone who could immediately do something in that situation.  He was the Don.  And he did nothing.

What a fucking asshat. I commented on your prior Gladwell post, talking about how he’s parlayed one semi-intellectual and interesting book (Outliers) into an entire career of less-than-semi-intellectual conspiracy theorism, and doofuses like Bill Simmons eat it up.

Maybe I’m wrong, but you seem to take this way too seriously. Both the New York Giants and Mike Francesa are dumpster fires and deserve each other.

Very true about OPS+, but his wOBA and wRC+ tell a similar tale as his OPS+, so it is what it is.

LeMahieu’s OPS to the opposite field is .200 points lower than to LF.  Nice theory about the short porch, but quite wrong.

FWIW, LeMahieu’s road splits are still really good (.827 OPS). Same with Urshela (.906 OPS). Urshela’s actually hit for a lot more power on the road.

Before this season, LeMahieu had exactly one good offensive season in his career. He’d still be valuable in Colorado because if his incredible defense at 2B, but he was clearly an average to below average hitter.

With the premium put on relief pitchers these days, and how little the Yankees have been willing to spend on players, there’s almost no doubt in my mind this was his last game with the Yankees.

This is absolutely accurate even if you actually think that Paterno isn’t at the top of the food chain at Penn State. Joe was in charge, not his paper “superiors”.