That’s nothing. I paid Oddibe Mcdowells water bill one month

Yes! I worked for a prominent midwestern franchise situated near a lake that moved into a new stadium around the turn of the millenium.

This is enlightening and also a reminder of why it’s hard to be a fan after working in the sports business.

Football is the perfect sport for America because it’s manufactured tribalism that allows us to blather a lot of meaningless nonsense about fake combat none of the fans have any actual involvement with, while scrupulously hiding all the real-world consequences and in the process making a handful of billionaire…

You didn’t do any research.  And any reasonable person would look at the whole situation and point some very reasonable figures at the shitty parents.  How many times was this shitbag bailed out by his dad and given money for high priced lawyers instead of paying the price for his actions?  He got away with being a…

Fun Fact: All three of the Remy children are convicted felons.

This is important. It was (is?) widely believed that Jerry Remy used his money and influence in the area to repeatedly get his son out of trouble despite his obvious violent and unstable streak. I obviously have no firsthand knowledge of how true that is, but if it is, Remy writing “No one was looking to get him out…

Exactly right. Jared was a violent man who got away with many things because of who his dad was. Maybe if his dad had gotten him help to go along with lawyer and bail money Jerry wouldn’t have gotten such a “rough” time of it in the media.  They were exceptionally shitty parents, who raised shitty kids... one of whom…

The Wahls usually only have a problem with Vietnamese dudes.

there was legitimate criticism of jery and phoebe and how they bailed jared out time and again instead of having him face consequences for earlier actions. when you hear jery speak on this, or read his words, you are hearing only one side of the equation. jared was allowed to skate for years on bad behavior and,…

I live in Boston and I want to say that while “Sports talk radio is trash”, specifically Boston’s sports talk radio is absolutely the worst.

I lived in Boston at the time, and remember that this story is so much worse than Jerry makes out to be (not surprising). Jared just got arrested for domestic violence against Jen and once he was released on bail he immediately the next day went back to their home and stabbed her multiple times throughout the house.

What bothered me so much after the tragedy was the criticism of my wife. I heard comments like, “How can she be a responsible grandmother when she can’t even raise her own kids?” Of course, this narrative took off on the talk shows. It was nasty; it went above and beyond. I promised her that I’d never do another talk…

You got a problem with dese wahls?

If these walls could talk; you’d probably hate their accent.

I’m sorry, no, that person who I’m sure is quite real does not count.

Serge Ibaka got a ring before Harden and Westbrook.

The problem people are having with MLS is they are not even allowing their business to mature. They’re on a money-grab, expanding with no top-flight talent coming in. Their refusal to partner with USL to develop a legitimate Pro/Rel system further eradicate their credibility in the sport.

If MLS gave a shit about the soccer, they would have instituted pro/rel instead of simply holding out their hands and screaming “GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE” until every city bigger than Peoria has an MLS team.

The Salvador Dali museum is super cool! But you can’t do that before every game.