That has to be it; Lee Smith was great and all, but Wagner’s .998 WHIP, 11.9 K/9, and 187 ERA+ over 900 innings is just absurd.

Thanks for the response, Dom; I agree on all points. These articles have been great, I hope they are renewed next season.

What the Bucs have started doing is creating turnovers. They’re a plus-six in turnover differential on the season, but they were minus-9 after their 1-3 start. They’re now tied for the league lead with 25 takeaways, but 23 of those have come in the last nine games, including 14 during their current five-game winning…

I would have had Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley show up wearing their combined 18 rings, but your way works too.

This could lead a casual observer to believe, incorrectly, that the department’s primary function has to do with the production of fossil fuels, like oil.

This is confusing until you remember that Ted Cruz doesn’t speak Spanish, and thinks that queso means “blood of the proletariat”

From the piece:

Yea, he was drafted by the Bengals

Yea, she’ll probably win that seat 60/40 every two years until she dies.

Gotta gif that wide shot at the end

The Bearded Short

This is basically Art Briles’s shitty campaign slogan when he runs for Texas state office in four years.

Extremely wealthy people are actually great, this millionaire suggests...The sheer fact of their wealth, Scaramucci ventured, must mean that “certainly they’re super talented.”

But if Kubiak had a long field goal in mind, I think he can be criticized for not running the ball on second and third downs and trying to pick up a few more yards to make McManus’s life a lot easier.

Ndamukong Suh wrapped up the QB, and Kiko Alonso, a former Chip Kelly player with the Eagles, stopped his old coach’s quarterback and ended the game.

Per ESPN, head coach Brian Kelly backed the school’s decision to appeal the NCAA’s sanctions at a press conference Tuesday morning...

Unschooled in traditional campaigning, he was able to look at the business of politics the way so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have sized up other bloated industries... “We weren’t afraid to make changes. We weren’t afraid to fail. We tried to do things very cheaply, very quickly. And if it wasn’t working, we…

This pretty box is too expensive to buy on a whim, though, so you might as well make it a Thoughtful Gift. (The Line, $85)

Roethlisberger called that play when he flashed Brown a thumbs up at the 0:08 mark in that clip, right?

I believe the appropriate time to shit oneself is if/when Giuliani is nominated for Attorney General.