Fundamentally, sure, the chance of hitting on a star in the draft is the surest way to building a good team quickly, and you have a better chance at doing that with a high draft pick and multiple selections. But to completely disregard any other form of team building, or to insinuate that attempting to build a team…

Many things grate me about The Ringer sometimes, but their insistence that teams smash the TANK button the second they’re not a bonafide title contender is extremely dumb.

Fundamentally, I agree with them. I think Three True Outcomes baseball is among the worst modern variations of the game, and an obvious over-reaction to the strikeout-heavy power outage of the post-steroids era.

+1 “I just wish they’d immigrate the right way” 

I bend the knee to Titan, new lord sovereign of the Great Rocky Mountains   

Doing right by your writers is independent of wanting to get better benefits and get a stronger barrier of security in case things change in the future. For example: HBO could decide tomorrow that they don’t want to be an investor in The Ringer anymore, which would cause the website to downsize its editorial staff by,…

Hell yeah man, fuck poor people am I right!!!! 

holy shit the Falcons are 55 years old? 

Yeah, I get that he’s more valuable right now as SP depth (not that Alec Mills and Adbert Alzolay haven’t delivered nice moments this year), but if somebody else from the staff hits the IL, he’s probably best suited to handle it, so I get keeping him there at least until rosters expand. Another name that has…

Watching Kimbrel closely, he really has been getting close to putting it together. A lot of his high ERA was largely: in a garbage time loss right after he signed, a blown save against Pittsburgh (that wasn’t completely his fault, as some dumb defensive choices hurt him) and an admittedly brutal blown save against the…

say what you will about Ben, but he will always rush to defend credibly accused rapists.

Every so often, I remember that in 2018, the Oscars made a Big Deal about it being “Time’s Up” for Bad Men in the industry. They gave Kobe an Oscar that year for his poorly animated self-blowjob.

I am extremely pro-swearing, but I have tried this year to curse a little less, because the volume at which I was swearing was probably a little too much. In this, I have found the beauty of the simple “heck”. It rolls off the tongue so nicely, and the hard “ck” sound at the end of it really makes it sound like a word…

being 6'10" pays! 

Shout out Nazr Mohammed, the key acquisition at the trade deadline for the 2005 Spurs—a sneaky acquisition that maybe helped swing the title (thanks, Knicks!). He started all 7 games in the Finals and gave a solid 20 minutes of defense per game. Without that depth at the Center position, The Wallaces/McDyess grind…

NOT a Broncos fan, but I am a Denver resident, and give us a LITTLE slack about our Governor. Hickenlooper has moved on from the state house to tut-tut at the Dems who literally don’t want people to die from insulin rationing, and was replaced by Jared Polis, a Gay man who’s running a pretty left administration right…

This slight against Piggy Poop Balls will NOT be forgotten. 

like when NBA2k19 decided your nickname was going to be “AI” lol. 

Fire Emblem, for sure. Plans tonight fell through (no decent showtimes available for “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”) so tonight I’m gonna sink my teeth into that big boy for probably 5-8 hours.

Once I did this at an O’s game in Baltimore, and hilariously, we ended up sitting next to the person who had season tickets for those seats (he owned 4, and him and a buddy were occupying the other 2). He was just like “oh, you must have bought those from me!” Me and my girlfriend were like “haha, yeah grabbed them…