I felt a very similar feeling to this watching the opening night Broncos/Panthers game last year where the Broncos were teeing off on Cam Netwon’s head and not one thing was done to protect him. No penalties thrown and no coach, referee, or doctor seeing the obvious and getting that man off the field.

I wasn’t even a…

As a Yankee fan this is really cool news, but it does leave a ton of questions:
- Who plays 2nd? Tyler Wade? Ronald Torreyes? Gleyber Torres if healthy (and he can learn a 3rd position)?
- Who plays where in the outfield? Stanton by the numbers is the worst defender with a Negative WAR. Does he mainly play DH? Does he…

Actually Jeter and Cashman had a pretty frosty relationship with Jeter’s last contract signing. Cashman didn’t want to pay for past results and told Jeter out at the time he preferred Troy Tulowitzki. Based on the grudge Jeter held against A-Rod for years I wouldn’t be surprised if he still held somewhat of one…

As a descendant of Italian Americans I can actually name a couple off the top of my head: Rocky Balboa or Tony Danza’s characters in basically anything BUT those types of characters always come across as poor, simple-minded mooks...and I guess even Rocky originally helped a small time criminal

With how global basketball is at this point I think the NBA could kinda kill two birds with one stone here.

Why does their have to be distinction? To be honest one shouldn’t have anything to do with the other.

One of the things about that last episode of Last Week Tonight that I loved was the talk about “Whataboutism.” In the context of the story it was shown how Trump and Fox News have disgustingly mastered it and used it…

I respectfully disagree with you on some of your points.

Not being an Astros fan I didn’t follow follow Giles during the regular season outside of the stats I saw. I was just going off what I saw in the playoff series that I watched/listened to. I courteously defer to your expertise on his performances pre-post season.

You’re great at name calling (actually, no you’re not.) What you’re also not good at is reading what you write before you hit post. The sad part when reading your first comment was “I may not agree with everything, but this person has a formed argument with some things I can get behind.” Now, I shake my head and see…

I think you have some solid points, especially about pulling Rich Hill early in both of his starts, but there are some areas where you’re either reacting in hindsight or comparing apples to oranges.

And you also added this:

I’m not even a Dodger fan and this post made my day

I don’t think you have to look at the scab ref performance. I think you just have to look at the explosion of the popularity of football in the last 30 years along with the marked failure of NFL competitors like the USFL and XFL. 

The Cross story isn’t super surprising. He’s pretty well known around the industry as being a complete ass.

It’s funny you compare this to a struggling actor because it is very much the same thing. I was having a conversation with a fellow struggling actor a number of years ago. This person was a relative newbie and we were discussing commercial work. She told me that she would never do an ad for someone like Walmart…

You’re right about this. Speaking as an Austin resident, if the team moves here they’re going to find out the same thing is true here as well.

I understand still being pissed at that call if I was an Orioles fan. It was CLEARLY the wrong call. However I’ve always thought, even watching that game live in ‘96, that that call went against the Orioles in part from Roberto Alomar spitting in John Hirschbeck from a few weeks earlier especially when Alomar talked…

This has been a good series so far. The Astros are a great team. Their pitching so far has been excellent and hitting timely and the Yankee hitters have had terrible approaches as the plate where they all look like their trying to pull homers instead of just get on base.

I think it’s also true that a few of the umpire…

I gave a star to your post as well as scalfin’s and 1076's which might seem counterintuitive, but all 3 thoughts got me thinking:

1) Your idea is an excellent one. If the list Katie spoke about got as much traction as it was getting in what I’m assuming is a relative short span (since we don’t know based on this story…

You’re spot on with your analysis.

I’m not a Sox fan, but from afar it felt like Farrell could be in trouble this year based on a number of incidents. 

The beanball war with the Orioles early in the year that went on WAY too long where not only did the team seem split on how it was handled but seemed like it was the Sox…

I totally disagree with your CC reference. I’ve watched just about every Yankee game this year (I have my own problems) and have seen CC get in trouble about 6th inning just about every start.

It’s not just a matter of pitch count, it’s also a matter of how many times he’s gone around a batting order. I love CC, but…