Jason Marquis?!?!

Yes. Minor league ball is one of the great pleasures of the world. Cheap tickets, good weather, wonderful atmosphere, and the strange magic of ballparks that can either be top-tier new stadiums or decrepit, aging messes. I love the big leagues, as far as what I follow, but I’ll become a faithful follower of any nearby…

I’ve said it before, but if I turn on ESPN during the day or whatever, for every 2 minutes of actual sports coverage it felt like there is 10 minutes of athlete tweets, discussing on “what it means”, etc.

Dad?

Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. Please get rid of Jon Gruden. 

I used to be able to watch hockey games on NBCSN / NBC like that by using the SAP button on the remote to change the audio to the Spanish language feed. Since no Spanish language feed exists, it would just be the sounds of the rink without any of the commentary from the broadcast booth and it was glorious. Then they…

When Darren Rovell comes begging you guys for a job, can you please require him as a condition of his employment that he respond to every single comment on his posts?

“Is the Embrace Debate Era to blame for ESPN’s financial issues? Our team of experts weigh in when we come back.”

I like to believe that they fired Dick Vitale years ago but just never told him.

In a lot of ways, having a good AA club in town satisfies the same criteria. It’s hard to say definitively whether it’s a better experience than a professional game, but it is a pretty great nostalgia-inducing summertime activity.

it seems like it offers the things I like most about live baseball: Sitting outside in nice weather, eating and drinking, and just absorbing the entire sensory experience—the smells, the sounds—without necessarily caring that much about who wins or loses, or even who plays.

Maybe I am alone in this, but does anyone give a shit about the talking heads? Like if the network started a new channel—ESPN Pure or something, let the marketing pukes come up with the name—where there is literally nothing but sports being broadcast without idiotic arguing or “story weaving” or human interest or even…

Gee golly, I wonder who will get cut more? The folks that went to school to pursue a professional career in broadcast journalism, or the former athletes that barely manage to put together two consecutive coherent thoughts?

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What the fuck......You’re a professional basketball player and you can’t adapt to an arena turning off the music and other artificial crowd noise generating gimmicks for a half? Jesus Christ.

THE SILENCE...DEAR CHRIST THE SILENCE...YOU CAN HEAR A MAN’S SCREAMS ECHO FOR ETERNITY IN A PLACE LIKE THIS. IT CARRIES A WEIGHT WITH IT, A CERTAIN GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN. THE SILENCE...MY GOD THE SILENCE...UNTIL A KICK, A FLASH OF PAIN, AND IT IS BROKEN. NUT SHOT.

So what are the chances that at least one Warriors playoff opponent now tries this?

More like Ham-wow!

Is that similar to JaMarcus Russell’s Codeine Syrup weight?

Old, racist, white dudes are a trip. The people who enable and perpetuate this shit are complicit. This article was reviewed and copyedited before published. Multiple people thought such a statement was ‘ok.’ That’s wild. I’m not even offended. I have to laugh at this so my ‘angry black man,’ isn’t so obvious.