it isn’t?

FTE is just god fucking awful. Whatever Silver writes is usually good; the rest of the site is full of scintillating analyses like “Statistically, the Rachel haircut was less popular after Friends left the airwaves” or “The team that scores the most runs wins 99.99% of the time in MLB (with a margin of error of +/-…

Learning something about a subject you find interesting when you’re on a commute or cleaning the bathroom? It’s pretty logical, honestly.

How about the fact that we’re days away from the NBA tipping off yet we haven’t had a column from Zach Lowe, the best in the business, for 10 days now. Is he leaving too? He’s half the reason I still wander over there.

“Fans of Grantland’s NFL podcast”

How about some empathy for the Bear? He has been having that recurring nightmare where he shows up to school naked, and now it’s really happening?

Dear Stance, I meant to write you sooner but I just been busy
You said your girlfriend’s pregnant now, how far along is she?

But IF he’s having fun by legitimately mocking (rather than just playfully jabbing) Bautista, implicitly saying “dude’s a clown”, is Rizzo:

I support this sensible plan for the future of our nation.

I remember distinctly buying and turning on my Nintendo 64 for the first time. I plopped a cartridge in it and played Goldeneye, no setup required.

To be fair...grab your sword and get your ass down to the nearest batting cages and show us how it’s done.

You’re right, this is the least impressive thing we’ve ever seen. :-/

Well, he’s wrong.

You must have run afoul of BIG DAILY FANTASY.

I was actually on season 2, it was a ton of fun. I worked with Genevieve, and Doug did our room and we were terrified at the time because it was right after the Fireplace debacle. Our room ended up being, not for everyone, but I loved it (I did end up painting over it eventually though).

If memory serves me I was the…

It’s not just entertainment, but any sort of societal contribution. James Watson unraveled DNA, but is a racist prick. Martin Luther was an anti-Semite who believed in drowning kids he perceived as retarded. Lewis Carroll was not only a brilliant author, but also an influential mathematician and likely a pedophile.…

I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS BOOK TO ARRIVE AT MY HOME, SHEA even though I’ve never won any of your twitter pre-order giveaways :(

Shea’s (excellent) book includes, in each chapter, a written “rebuttal” to his pick for the most important song of the year, and I wrote the rebuttal for ‘97. My pick: “The Rain” by Missy Elliott, featuring Timbaland. Here’s what I wrote:

Jay-Z was annihilated by Eminem on Renegade. I say this as a huge fan of 80% of Jay’s work and only MMLP from Slim.

NFL Blitz on N64 or GTFO!!!