I know ESPN has turned the LLWS into a too-slick, commercial product that capitalizes on the preciousness of children playing a game and spends a little too long on the sobbing faces of kids who lose, but last night the Connecticut team, down 5-2 to Walla Walla, Wash., in the fourth, scored eight runs and ran away…

This is way off base and as an engineer who is obsessed with efficiency, Disney and ABC were definitely in the wrong and deserved to pay up.

Racism? At an Indians game?

Pardon—-I meant not learning anything about sportsmanship and accountability, among other important traits young men need to learn as they grow up. He doesn’t appear to be fostering the type of growth that will help the majority of these kids, and I’m not referring to their NBA odds. I’m talking about as human beings.

Feel bad for those kids, being conditioned to listen to that asshole. They’re not learning anything. Hopefully, their parents will explain to them why what they did in listening to Ball was wrong.

Who would go to a gathering just to stare at their phone? Furthermore, who would go to a gathering MEANT for you to stare at your phone?

Ending a sentence by saying “Dab” and then dabbing should get someone burnt at the stake. We don’t need these people.

So tired of the popular vote argument. It is such a red herring. It’s like arguing your team should have won the game because they had more passing yards.

And they say Progressives don’t have dog whistles

I’m kind of hoping he excels at baseball so I can laugh at the fact he wasted most of his athletic prime trying to play professional football.

Good for him. That’s all I’ve got. Everybody deserves a good day every once in a while.

“NFL disbursed $7.8 billion in national revenue—a 9.6 percent increase from the previous year.”

You don’t even want to know what our armchair diagnosis is for you.

“dense beard of a microbrewer”

Three straight articles about regular-season baseball. Fuck July.

Yeah, no.

The central payer would out of necessity be a government agency (or a monopoly corporation tightly controlled by the government similar to companies in China) since it would be using tax money to pay for healthcare. And government control of all healthcare spending is pretty damn socialist.

claiming that universal health care equals socialism is really silly

I really have a hard time calling this a sport.

Yawn