He also made a complete mess of the Miguel Cabrera situation - refused to bench him when it was clear he was playing hurt because “he’d get plenty of rest in the offseason”.

You calling your peers “boys” is not even in the same universe as an employer calling his female employees “girls” when it comes to being demeaning and derogatory.

Owen Hart was still around in March 99 and he could wrestle rings around X-Pac.

I’m not 100% sold on him being a QB - he’d be good for sure but I don’t know if he’d have the arm to be truly elite. He could 100% be an all-pro RB or LB though.

I only managed the first two episodes. Paper-thin characters, clichéd dialogue, and it’s unsubtle to the point of comedy. Plus it features probably the worst bowl haircut since either Liar Liar or Face/Off.

the Sky Blues

I think the guy on the left in the second picture is #99 Adam Gotsis.

It’s true Golovkin will be another year older but people were saying he was done after the Jacobs fight and he still looked about as good as ever last night (considering the massive step up in opponent). Honestly I’d favor him in a rematch, he started off very cautiously and I wouldn’t expect that to happen again…

Obviously eliminating luck entirely is very difficult, but making the most of your luck (as in poker) definitely counts as skill, and there’s a huge difference between that and a game whose outcome is entirely decided by dice rolls.

Risk is just not a good game. Any game that relies on dice rolls is objectively terrible, because you can play perfectly (or, at least, better than your opponent(s)) and still lose if you keep getting 1s or they keep getting 6s. The point of a good board game is to reward skill, strategy and knowledge - if you’re…

Exactly. This is a “let’s play some games we found in the cupboard on Thanksgiving” list. Anyone who’s actually a regular board game player would laugh in your face if you suggested a game of Sorry or Chutes and Ladders.

...better at rolling high numbers on some dice? Difficult to achieve.

While taking liberties in a match was reasonably common during the first half of the 20th century, it’s incredibly rare nowadays, and especially to the extent of potentially costing someone 6 months’ worth of bookings and paydays (as opposed to throwing a few legitimate punches with a recovery time of about a week).…

If I were going to make an outside-chance bet I’d go for Mayweather by DQ. I think it’s more likely that Conor gets frustrated after chasing shadows for 8 rounds and throws a headkick than Floyd gets too aggressive and ends up getting KO’ed.

If Mayweather treats it like any of his other fights he’s going to get hit single-digit times on the way to winning all 12 rounds. The question is, will Floyd’s ego let him move and jab his way to a probably-tepid victory against an opponent in his first professional bout, who’s spent the entire buildup trying to get…

My favourite sidenote from the Gunn-Butterbean fight was that, supposedly, Butterbean arrived at the arena expecting a worked fight like he’d had with Mero, only to be told that this time was the real thing.

Sanchez is set up right over the plate, so either it was intentional or Betances is such a shitty pitcher than he can bean a guy while trying to throw a strike. Either way he shouldn’t be in the Yankee bullpen tomorrow night.

They were. At the end of the video the commentator confirms that the red was shown twice.

Having referees giving decisions based on the statures and careers of the players involved is an absolutely terrible idea. Retaliation like this should always be a red card regardless of who’s involved.

During the first half I had discussions with Yankee fans who insisted that Judge wasn’t going to regress and could maintain his then ~.420 BABIP because “he hits the ball really hard”.