I can’t get over the highlight around 0:43 where the defense has to chase a fucking 6'10" center off the three-point line, only to have him instantly blow by his man to score in the wide open lane that was vacated by the close-out. Please get this guy on a team that matters.

As a Pens fan who watched Karlsson play against my team in the Conference Finals last year, I disagree with this take.

This is known as the EGOT of Philly fandom

To answer the Sports Guy’s question, neither team says no to this trade. The Celtics propose it and the Spurs respond by hanging up and never taking another Danny Ainge call again. Unclear whether Pop also burns the garden to the ground and salts the ashes.

About ten years ago I was a regular poster to Pirates message boards. The feeling at that time was that Huntington and the new majority ownership inherited a mess, but that they would spend on free agents when the time was right and they had a good young core.

I have to agree here — as an East Coast resident who regularly gets together on the West Coast with friends for reunions and such, some of which are in Vegas and all of which involve heavy alcohol consumption, those 10AM start times suck.

Yeah, I dunno. I remember hearing that the baseballs affected sliders more. FWIW, SI wrote about Kershaw specifically after Game 5:

Pitch tipping was undoubtedly a pretty big contributing factor to Darvish’s suckiness, but the slickness of the balls in the playoffs made slider pitchers pretty ineffective.

Bullshit. Juju’s shoulder catches him in the chest. Any helmet contact is incidental to the fact that it’s impossible not to catch at least a little helmet on a shoulder block.

I’ve read so much about JuJu’s dirty hit. Can someone explain to me how this is a dirty block? He is leading with his shoulder.

If I’m correctly understanding a Do Not Announce order, the nursing supervisor shouldn’t be telling that to the media or anyone else. You don’t even confirm the person is there.

It is absolutely a skill. I’m a Pirates fan, and the acquisition of Burnett was one of their GM’s best moves, but the Yankees were right to move on. I don’t see how Girardi gets blamed for AJ’s underachieving.

Again I disagree, we do know. Maeda came in and shut the righties down, just as Roberts wanted. Maeda will probably be available by Game 4 to do the same. By the time Houston tied the game, the decision to pull Hill early had no bearing anymore. We don’t know if Hill would have let up any runs, but the Dodgers got an…

Seriously, lol. Imagine using AJ fucking Burnett to support your case that Girardi is a bad manager.

Completely disagree. Jansen is likely in that spot regardless of when Hill came out of the game. The Dodgers were basically a strike away from making Roberts look brilliant. And you obviously weren’t taking Verlander out of the game before Seager’s homer, but that home run showed exactly why you’d think about taking a…

I read the headline, Dom, I promise I’ll read the article some day.

If Kyrie has something to say, I think he needs to say it flat out.

I read the title and assumed he was dead

This is the most goddamn hilarious thing I have ever seen...the elephant’s reaction is gold

This is the second Pittsburgh athlete in my lifetime to get cancer and return in the same fucking season. Super Mario did it in 92-93 and won the scoring title