Credit also goes to RC Buford for going out and finding these dudes in the first place. Pop is great at molding the clay once they are arrive...but RC is the best at finding the dudes who are willing/capable of being molded.

You keep saying that it’s entertainment, but it’s entertainment based on a competition that has rules. A lot of dope shit happens in sports that is not rewarded due to rules in one way or another.

If it’s more important for you to have an emotional “moment” than to have a fair outcome, go watch a fucking movie.  

Deadspin: VAR is awful

One of the things Tony Clark absolutely has to get out of the next bargaining agreement is the removal of draft pick compensation being tied to the qualifying offer. It’s just absolutely sank a number of players markets in the previous years. I think a big part of the reason the Cubs aren’t in on Kimbrel is them…

I’m not sure exactly when it is, but after a certain date (last year it was May 8th) there is no loss of draft pick or compensatory pick for signing a FA, even if he got a QO. I bet they both get signed after that.

I’m not arguing if any of this is fair (it isn’t) or if teams can afford these guys (they can), or if pitchers (especially starters) over 30 are good investments in baseball’s current economic environment (they usually aren’t), but both could be under contract now. They both received the qualifying offer which would…

*Literally every team* could use both Keuchel and Kimbrel. There is no team in the game so impossibly stacked with pitching talent that Keuchel isn't better than their fifth starter, or Kimbrel isn't better than the seventh or eighth guy out of the pen.

Counterpoint: After significant research into MLB salary structure and various risk/assessment nuances in play for both Keuchel and Kimbrel; the only logical conclusion drawn is Fuck the Red Sox.

I haven’t seen a six day beating this bad since 1967.

Hennessey’s maternal grandfather, a certain Fritz Bormann, confirmed that Wayne is in fact a complete idiot.

Literally, by law, they have to interrupt broadcasting when people might die because of such shit. That’s part of their deal in the social contract when we give them the right to broadcast shit like Two-And-A-Half Men to the unwitting masses. Fucking what the fuck is hard about people still not understanding that? And…

No one still thinks the Sixers are the favorites in the East - maybe in October, or in the immediate afterglow of one of the big trades, sure, but not right now. Once 82 games were played, everyone understands that Milwaukee (and Toronto, assuming Saturday was a blip rather than a regression to their typical playoff…

Here you go. I usually have to attach a picture twice before it actually works. 

Except Griffin is actually still good.

If it takes 7 minutes to determine that Hiirikoski didn’t make enough of an effort to avoid contact, then it was a goal and Finland got screwed.

No shit, everyone’s acting like he overcame cancer! More like “self-inflicted arrogant asshole finally wins another game a decade later”

Athletes are measuring sticks.  

I mostly was rooting for Jim Nantz to gloss over the actual details of Tiger’s last ten years (the drug abuse, the DUIs, the public infidelities) with phrases like “after all he’s been through” and “with everything that’s happened.”

They look like toast because they’re playing like they smell it.