I don’t think anyone suggested doing away with contracts altogether, did they?

The thing is...NFL teams’ ability to not honor contracts (depending on how you look at it) is given to them in the collective bargaining agreement. If you had baseball’s union, you’d all have guaranteed contracts and the Rams would still be paying Vince Ferragamo.

May be an urban legend, but supposedly former Twins shortstop Lenny Faedo, as a high schooler, hit four home runs in a game and was walked intentionally with the bases loaded his fifth time up.

Also helping: the Rays going out in order in most of their times at bat.

Most of the Rays are used to sub-par umpiring, as they’re AAA players.

“Hey, I thought it was great,” said Aaron Hernandez’ lawyer.

Did he not know what city he was taking a job in?

As a Rays fan, I would be thrilled if said wolf would eat Steven Souza, Jr.

Clicked through to the story and the video attached to it starts off with Mongoloid John Travolta calling a Ducks game. I hate Kenny Fucking Albert.

“Who knows, if we knew more about U.S. Soccer’s own Soccer United Marketing, we might find that we aren’t that different.”

The funny thing is that ASU’s Sparky may not have resonated with student-athletes, but it sure resonated with alumni and students, which is why there was a brouhaha here when they changed things. And then they changed Sparky the character and THAT was a cock-up so they had to change him AGAIN.

In other words, a media type.

My point was this: in the South of 1962, a black man even accused of having had sex (much less forcible sex) with a white woman would likely have been dragged from his home and strung up without that there due process stuff. Today, even Southerners side with the black man, but I put more weight on the theory that it’s…

Isn’t it a sign of how far the South has come, though, that they now blame the white girl for having sex with the black guy instead of just lynching the black guy? (If the black guy in question is a good quarterback, I grant you.)

And if the Brazilians, renowned for their logistical and problem-solving abilities, can’t make it work, really, what chance do the Qataris have?

There used to be a Mad Libs-type “Write Your Own Bill Simmons Column” website somewhere. You’d plug in some pop culture references, the names of your friends or something and some food names or TV shows and it would spit out a column that didn’t read much differently from his. I don’t know if it still exists…

You’ve just put more thought into Simmons’ choice of t-shirt than he put into many of his columns.

You know who ELSE was a painter, right?

To which Christie replied, “Hey, fuck you.”

It’s the first time anything involving WAR and A-Rod has had a number higher than 5 in it since 2008. #seamheadhumor