Players like Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn would have been great cricket players. It’s definitely a sport that values patience and ability to control where you hit the ball.

Unreasonable excitement? While Kawhi Leonard may have signed with the Clippers, only the Knicks acquired TWO 6'7" players from Toronto this offseason.

Yeah, the only complaint I have with tennis is that I wouldn’t give players so many reviews, but otherwise I’m fine with what they’ve done. Again, it’s another sport with pretty unambiguous rules.

Others have documented the evils of video review much better than I could, but I will add this observation.

Has a team ever become more justifiably despised while accomplishing so little?

Would they play “O Canada” before all home games, or only before games in Montreal? Would they play it before the team’s road games, as they do for the Blue Jays, or only for road games following home stands in Montreal?

MontaBay ExRays makes as much sense as anything in this story.

“My baseball people loved Ken Phelps’ bat. They kept saying ‘Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps.’”

This is like calling a time-out to freeze a kicker who misses and makes the re-do. Coaches need to stop trying to be so damn cute about everything.

Sure, but can we talk about 23 missed shots?

I don't know about worse, but the obsessive whining about the refs made this year's version of the Rockets more pathetic.

This bears all the hallmarks of a decision made by a John Mara-owned organization.

Vegas 2018: The NHL tries to help certain teams win? Who would dare to even suggest this?

Ovechkin has long since cemented his place as a generational talent and a force of nature. He is in many ways a 21st century reincarnation of Maurice Richard. He has nothing to prove.

More fingers need to be pointed at Mara.

“Breathtaking incompetence” may be a charitable assessment. What’s scarier is that it may have ended up being worse if they’d actually shipped away the vast majority of their decent young talent for Davis.

“Expect Chelsea to sign Trippier up any day now.”

Arguably, the Canucks had addressed this possibility by trading for Max Lapierre at the 2011 deadline. If a key player is going to go down with an injury, that's just the way it's going to be. 

Yes, teams that win the Stanley Cup do make deadline deals.

It’s almost as if “Assume every star will walk over broken glass for the privilege of being on our team” isn’t a good long-term strategy for operating a professional sports franchise.