That “chemistry issue” card seems overblown (and also dog-whistly). He certainly has a reputation that’s followed since Sacramento, but if you watched or listened to him over the past two years you’d know that he hasn’t been living up to it. He was downright sagacious about it in GS, and spoke with weary resignation…

That’s fair, and Thome started his tumble down Mount OBP in his last year here. Feels like that’s where Aubreu will ultimately end up—he’s at -10 defensive runs saves at the midway point, but I’m not familiar enough with the farm system to know if they have anyone coming that could take the everyday 1st spot.

They haven’t been around as long as the old standbys like Ribbie and Slug or Era and Po, but I find they do good work.

And yet, three all-stars including the AL’s best-hitting catcher. Truly, we do not live in an equitable world.

Not sure that Dame really needed to throw Kanter under the bus there, but I’m sure that Erdogan appreciates the assist.

If we go by the timelines of cyberpunk fiction, in the Shadowrun universe haptic feedback gloves were about $250 within 15 years of the forced advent of AR, though they had a thirty-year head start of keyboard-based VR interaction. If we (very generously) use a similar timetable, we’re probably looking at another ten…

You only really need 15 of the 101 possible two-digit numerals, anyway, and if we ever get so much jersey bloat that even that’s threatened, the Jordan precedent is there for in-retiring numbers when the need arises. So, just retire the number of any player worth noting til you hit 86, then unretire the least notable…

Probably yes and vehemently yes.

Get ready for 3-24 months of extremely hard work and the best sort of tryharding, followed by 24-45 months (or however long until you make The Trade) of exhausting jockassery.

Don’t forget calling the UK part of “central Europe”, and claiming that cricket was a phenomenon all across Europe, and generally doing a poor job of seeming informed of anything that goes on outside the US.

Sorry Nets, but there’s a new leader in the race for Kyrie!

+1 hour spent hiding on my couch until I’m sure they’ve left.

Thanks! Now if only I could have channeled that spark into any productive writing today...

What Giri didn’t realize was that Durant, stooped in the Hugo Boss dressing room, had overheard his queries and began playing a game of his own creation, sending Tony to post from locations, following Giri from shop to shop in two trench coats stacked on top of each other, and asking if the clerks had seen any overly…

I wrote him in for DH in the All Star Vote in the hopes of him having a better shot at getting an invite. We should have seen Ichiro in one, we need to see Shohei in one, and we oughta see Ichiro throwing to Shohei in one.

The rules are pretty clear: 3 dudes an NBA team does not make! I’m sure they’ll scrabble a team together someway or another, but could you imagine if they just couldn’t and were the first American sports relegation by TKO?

I’ve heard about eight places say that Kyrie won’t go to the Lakers, and zero places that he would. I’m willing to trust those existing reporters (and Kyrie’s ego) over the imaginary ones in the Staples Center offices. (I don’t mean Lakers beat reporters or team staffers, I mean the ones Pelinka and co. might have…

Can we talk about how those homers went to the same spot on the same hung, 96 mph fastball? Segura’s was a bit more inside and went maybe 8 feet further to miss the plastic, but that’s a scary instance of identical incompetence I can’t see any other team producing.

No, but it sounds like they were born into it; you can just burn your shirsee(s) and pretend none of it ever happened. If you own a real jersey, though, I’m afraid it’s terminal.

Every Chicago high school grabs someone off the soccer team for kicker, why shouldn’t the Bears?