Dude, you should know by now that I do all my Kinja while sitting on the toilet - which I have annexed as a grammar free zone that extends to all forms of expression (including both verbal and online).

I was not aware of this. Guess I have to sign up now, I always love bringing old material to a new audience.

If I never subscribe to the Athletic its simply because they don’t have a comment section for me to ruin.

£80 million, or 10 million for each hat size. 

The choice of Koreans:

Özil “looked absolutely terrified...

I’m friends with a head team doctor for a major sports team in North America. When I’m visiting him in town he always gets me great seats. One time in attending a game I was seated next to a colleague of his who was a chief medical officer for a national Olympic team. We got talking about performance enhancing drugs…

Artigiano is good! They were the only café in the lower mainland that had daily editions of the New York Times rolled up in those wooden sticks which made it impossible to do the crossword. Even though they cut back on the newspaper I’ll still walk the extra two blocks to go to Artigiano rather than 49th Parallel.

During the 2011 Tottenham riots when Boris Johnson was mayor of London, he was famously absent on vacation and refused to return. My wife (who is from London) was on the way to work and saw him sitting at the window of a Blenz in downtown Vancouver casually sipping a latte - the image of a frothy blond drinking a…

Team USA’s big mistake was letting Magic Johnson pitch each player on joining the team.

During the 2011 Tottenham riots when Boris Johnson was mayor of London, he was famously absent on vacation and refused to return. My wife (who is from London) was on the way to work and saw him sitting at the window at a Blenz in downtown Vancouver casually sipping a latte - the image of a frothy blond drinking a…

For those keeping track, the actual final result of the trade is James Neal and Adam Larsson for Taylor Hall.

The irony of Harry Kane leaving everyone’s jaw on the floor.

FWIW, Zlatan would make for an incredible Bond villain.

Fake meat burgers are fine and if they help move people more towards a plant-based diet that is a good thing. Nonetheless, I want to argue for the virtues and pleasures of a simple veggie burger - not the chemistry miracle heme-bomb of beet blood and amino acids extracted from a rainbow variety of peas - but a…

Yeah, it was always a myth, but I still wanted to play along with it.

This reminds me of the time when John Lennon was asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world and he responded that he wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles... that person was Zlatan.

Ban golf.

Sabathia was attempting to explain the Unwritten Rules of Baseball to Garcia, which is, ironically, itself a violation of the Unwritten Rules of Baseball.

Vladdy working out all of Toronto’s aggressions in losing Kawhi.