The best part was listening to Eckersly call it before it happened. It was right up there with his “Yay!” Reaction to that Mookie Betts grand slam over the summer.

And this thoughtless, vile cruelty is a big part of his brand and why a large portion of this nation likes him.

Pictured: Direct TV versus Basic Cable Sam Darnold.

I really hate when the Yankees trade for players I like.

Tough draw for Arsenal.

(Mourinho actually deserves kudos for the innovative system he approached the game with, and if his players had finished better, he probably would’ve strutted into that press conference gloating about how he’s still got it...)

I was a big fan of the Athletic when they launched. They had a lot of diverse voices and were doing good work. But since their early days, they have become VERY committed to employing middle-aged men, mostly white ones. I really don’t believe that the best long-term business model for “disrupting” journalism is to…

Post-Nixon America was so traumatized by Nixon’s crookery that it swerved around to elect a Sunday school teacher who was nice to the public, didn’t lie, and worked tirelessly for peace. Sometimes the backlash is a good thing.

In 2011 The Red Sox blew a 9 game lead in September. They have a whole ‘nother month to f**k things up on top of that. Like all sports fans, I have a sort of fatalistic belief my team will find a way to ruin a good thing - so as a Red Sox Fan, I’ll still pretend tomorrow is the beginning of the unraveling...until the…

Mike Rizzo on the decision to DFA Shawn Kelley: “You’re either in or you’re in the way. He was in the way.” Called him slamming his glove “disrespect” and “selfish.”

Hit probability is based on launch angle and exit velocity. The 42% cited here is catch probability, which is measured by opportunity time (hang time) and distance needed to cover (based on where the OF starts and where the ball lands). 

I’m old enough to remember when this was called Ghost Riding.

Sounds like he’s a pretty terrible professional ethics arbiter, and he certainly should have allowed the investigation of Kevin Johnson to continue.

That being said, give me a break - at no point was Kevin Johnson a “rising Democratic star”. He was a random irrelevant mayor nobody at all had pegged for higher office.…

Iris > anyone on staff here, honestly

Eh, that’s tricky as hell, and I’m not really sure he made the wrong choice. Staying in college carries huge, huuuuuuuge risk for a first-round draft prospect. Like if he’d stayed at Kansas another year, developed his game, and entered the NBA readier to be a productive player, that would’ve been great; maybe he’d be…

This is hagiography masquerading as analysis. Strong is absolutely brutal. He acts like he’s calling the game on the radio. We can see what’s happening. There’s no need to identify every single touch of the ball.

Academia has so many skeletons in its closet it’s a wonder the closet hasn’t exploded. The whole system is set up to fundamentally exploit labor to an extent that’s mind boggling. Predatory sexual behavior is sadly but one of the many consequences, none of which are likely to be curbed anytime soon.