You misunderstood the lie that gets told. The victims he’s talking about don’t make up the battery (they wouldn’t be victims then); they lie and say nothing happened when it really did. It’s an incredibly common practice by victims for a number of psycholgical reasons (which, also as a defense attorney, are beyond my…

Looks like an acknowledgement that a full hands off policy would be ugly. But there’s a huge gulf between “we’re going to act like the sole moral authority,” which appears to be the League’s current position, and “we’re going to do nothing,” which is what this quote also says would be problematic.

He said exactly what his stance was, and exactly what he’d have preferred the Seahawks say: “What Clark did was horrible, but he paid the punishment as adjudicated by the courts. Crime and punishment is far beyond the scope of my job as a football general manager.”

I don’t wonder; I’m enormously confident that most of the blow up in coverage is because of increased ability to cover. But I will say, I do think there may be one related variable—these guys are bigger stars, and wealthier, than they were in previous decades. That means the power disparity between the athelete and…

Guess that answers who I’m rooting for.

I know he’s not the player Love is, but Love was at least injured on a basketball court in something that vaguely resembled rough basketball contact. Nobody’s going to talk about how the Hawks maybe don’t look like the same team because the NYPD broke Thab Sefolosha’s leg?

That’s not really the point; the point is ESPN has bottomless litigation coffers, just like Verizon presumably does. It means they can dig and dig and dig until they find the bad faith that gets them their fees.

Considering what the legal bills incurred in a lawsuit against a financial behemoth like ESPN are going to be, that strikes me as patently stupid business. Particularly if the lawsuit turns up any evidence of what you’re claiming; it’s quite likely that ESPN will be able to collect attorneys fees and costs if it can…

Particularly given that the contract was signed during the height of the steroids era blowup, there’s no way in hell the Yankees can argue that a steroid revelation was unforseeable. It’s as batshit as the Angels not having had a drug related clause in Josh Hamilton’s contract (although that one, at least, was…

You’re right about Uggla—I confused my middle infielders. Not sure there’s a huge difference between power hitting shorstops and power hitting second basemen though; both rare and getting rarer.

Uhh, the PED era and its apparently not-quite-over-aftermath? The original triples (Jeter/Nomar/A-Rod), Miguel Tejada, someties-but-not-always guys like Rich Aurelia, Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Troy Tulowitski, etc.... there was a serious run of big time offensive stars at shortstop.

Ten, you bums. The lineup card goes from top to bottom. If you go from the top to the bottom (1-9) you haven’t gone around yet. You’re only “around” when you go back up to one.

The report says he sold his company with the express requirement that he be funded by the Google megaplex to put a mainstream electric vehicle on the market... how is that not passionate about cars? He was willing to sacrifice being The Guy with The Company to bring this thing to market. Sounds pretty passionate to me.

Well, there is the little detail that Hernandez stood there while his two friends executed Lloyd. Pretty sure those guys might be “anyone other than Hernandez [who are] guilty of murdering Odin Lloyd.”

Half the price of the Naga you listed, drastically more durable (who DOESN'T have a drawer full of dead Razer mice?), and the only thing you lose is wireless. Best MMO mouse by a mile.

Half the price of the Naga you listed, drastically more durable (who DOESN'T have a drawer full of dead Razer…

This list needs to have one MMO mouse on it, and this year it really should be the Logitech G600—not the Razer Naga, despite it being a fine mouse. The difference is build quality. Think about the biggest upgrade in the Naga 2014, a widely beloved gaming mouse: the four rows of slanted, easy to navigate thumb…

This list needs to have one MMO mouse on it, and this year it really should be the Logitech G600—not the Razer Naga,…

I'm just glad it was intentional. I think any honest social scientist will tell you that the results of a word flip are often totally unpredictable for reasons we don't anticipate.

Unsure if the split between what "people think" and what "people say" was intentional in this poll, but I think it hugely skews the question.

I'm going to be missing only my second Indy 500 in ten years, so I'm in enormous support of this. If you wanna get bold, you could totally set up an internet campaign of some sort (kickstarter it?) while the media attention is so high.

I hate Baltimore, I hate the Ravens, and I love this comment even more.