The Mets returned to the World Series four years later, so no, they did not immediately fade into nothingness. (Not a Mets fan. A’s fan. The team that beat them in ‘73. I was there in Oakland, game 2, and the Mets were good.) You’re right about the Jets though.

I no longer live NYC, but did for 30 years. The second best true joy of living there (after being able to get whatever want no matter what time, day or night) is laughing at Jets fans. They always get their hopes up to be a winning team, make the playoffs, or win the big game, whatever. They will never win the big…

As a Red Sox fan, I am so glad they let him go years ago. Shithead was too in love with his fastball to throw anything else. You can’t do that in the Majors unless you have Mariano’s two-seamer. Yeah, he once had a million dollar arm. Now all he’s got is a ten cent head.

Listening to it again, it sounds more like the front channels are removed, and you’re hearing only the rear surround channels, which can often sound like that when you hear it isolated. Perhaps Deadspin are trying this method instead of Spanish broadcasts to avoid copyright issues.

Sounds like out of phase mic feeds. I am an audio engineer.

I have been playing baseball for over forty years. I call it a mitt. You probably call a baseball hat a cap, too, you dork.

Correction: The Olympic qualifiers for men’s javelin are Cyrus Hostetler, Sam Crouser and Sean Furey. The second and third place finishers at the trials, Thompson and Dolezal, were passed over for not reaching the Olympic standard of 83 meters. While Crouser and Furey did not not finish in the top three at the trials,…

That was impressive, but it was only 33 seconds.

Shit, where is the dislike button?

If there was no draft and a free market, then the Lakers would buy all the best players, just like the Yankees did before there was a MLB draft, until free agency started and they could buy the best players again and won championships again.

OK, this has to be understood. A streaker, by definition, is a nude idiot on the field. This happened a lot in the ‘70s. Motive may have included support of nudist ideals, or whatever.

Nolan Ryan throwing his seventh no-hitter the same day Rickey Henderson broke the all time stolen base record.

I respectfully disagree. While I am certainly aware of the history of corruption in pro boxing, in Liston 1, Clay clearly dominated the fight with his speed and evasion. Liston was repeated punching at thin air, as he couldn’t catch and hit Clay cleanly. It is plausible that this is how he injured his shoulder late…

Your assessment of both Liston fights are just plain wrong. In #1, Liston injured his shoulder trying repeatedly to hit Clay and missing the man who was to quick for him and avoiding all the punches. That’s why he quit. In #2 the so called “phantom punch” was in fact a straight right hand on Liston’s chin that was so…

Counterpoint: Pete Rose can remain the Hit King and still eat shit.

OK, here we go for a band that never got proper attention and a song that makes you want to run through a wall:

I support your point. I once participated in the construction of a far more impressive four sided beeramid in a London hotel room in 1985. We weren’t drinking no Lite-weight beer neither.

Hi ya. I invented wraps.

Also, the main combatants are a Venezuelan and a Dominican.