Literally everyone is funded by someone else. Scientists have to get grants to support their research. No source is untainted. Even government grants have strings attached and push researchers in certain directions. So yes, it’s good to consider all of the incentives of the expert, including their incentives to get…

In other news, Harper, Murphy, Rendon, Zimmerman, Strasburg, and Scherzer did not break their wrists (although it’s just a matter of time for Zimmerman to go back on DL).

Like all stats there are a lot of factors that BsR does not account for:

You can also have a walkoff catcher’s interference if the bases are loaded, but none of these things seems weird to me. It’s pretty simple. If you are in the last inning with the winning run on board, your job is to not do anything stupid defensively.

You are correct, sir (or madam). I saw the headline and expected it to be a man-on-third situation with a wild pitch that was swung on.

I assume they call the representative of the district in which you live. What about residents of the District of Columbia? DC has nearly 700K people, more than Wyoming, Vermont, and almost as much as each of the Dakotas. DC residents pay federal income taxes, but have no voting representation in Congress.

MM: I know, I think I’ll talk to the press and blame my pitchers. That won’t be a terrible idea. They will love the constructive feedback channeled through the helpful prism of the sports-writing internet.

It’s called “American Center for Legal Justice” because “Let’s Fuck with the ACLU” must have been taken.

Russia didn’t elect him?

Cosby is extremely inexperienced at not raping.

Maybe they thought this was the part of the speech where he was going to say something nice about the competition and, well, he didn’t.

Does most valuable mean you are the best player on the worst team? Asking for a friend who plays for the Angels.

“to educate young people—including married men and male athletes—about how to avoid facing allegations of sexual misconduct.”

Injuries to the baby are temporary. He’ll have that ball forever.

Yeah, Tom Brady has more of a claim to a quote like that.

So I guess his leg’s all better.

His walkup music is “I left my heart [bat and glove] in San Francisco.”

I get that black doctors and nurses would not be surprised about patients’ racism toward health care providers of color (HPOCs?), but I’m curious, and maybe @Mike is too, about whether black doctors and nurses perceive that they share the same experiences with health care providers who are immigrants, distrusted (at…

From his first cigarette to his last dyin’ day?

You mean rookie year Yasiel Puig or this year’s edition?