#1 doesn't matter. I think that's a post hoc rationalization that a lot of small-market folks with selfish (understandable) motives throw out about why baseball is in decline. The truth is that football popularity had already surpassed baseball by the time the NFL started using a salary cap (1994).

I think the big…

Digging deep! I like it.

There is a popular line of thinking among statistically minded baseball fans that declares the manager more or less irrelevant. In the course of 162 games, over tens of thousands of pitches, the impact of his strategic decision making is statistically negligible compared to the inherent quality of his players and…

I think it moved.

This is bad. F-minus.

I'm sure there is an example where letting the fans pick a team nickname turns out well, but, usually, the selection process is at the mercy of a self-selecting sample of people who either like fucking things up, or are oblivious to the fact that they are fucking things up.

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Yeah, I'm the type who would normally burn through all the missions of a new side-contact, but someone told me (or I read somewhere) to wait to do the rest of the assassinations because you'll make a ton more money that way.

Yeah, you're on the right track, but the key is not doing the assassination missions too early. Doubling $10,000 is good, but doubling $10,000,000 is much better.

How to get rich in three simple steps:

I like Option #2. There's a really, really good reason why the neighborhood play exists. I think making that reviewable will not only increase injuries and slow down the game (especially the first year), but it will also seem especially silly as MLB probably moves toward rules changes limiting home-plate collisions.

I just listen to the pop station. Except when "Party all the Time" comes on.

I think that's very fair. I'm not sure most here would agree with that sentiment, though.

A lot of the (non-Native) writers I've read on the subject have argued simultaneously that (1) the name should be changed, and (2) that non-Native opinions should be discounted, which I find to be a little paradoxical. Maybe they mean only the non-Native opinions who are contrary to theirs should be discounted? …

Scott Zolak, if you are reading this, or if someone who cares about you is reading this and can pass this along - please get an MRI as soon as possible.

+1 I appreciate the conceptual stuff.

I actually thought this was a step in the right direction. Had this been his opening salvo, rather than his standoffish dismissal (ALL CAPS), this might have played out differently.

If the question is "How much would the Jags beat Bama by," I would put the answer at something like 63 points. As others have pointed out, even a loaded college team has perhaps 15 future NFL players (at age 18-22), while the Jags, by definition, have 53 NFL players, ages 22-35 or so.

Sport team's nickname.

The fact that I can't say for sure what conference they're in (C-USA? Big East? AAC? Is the AAC a thing?) probably confirms that whatever interest I had in college football as a kid and young adult has finally, irrevocably disappeared.

Yeah, I'm guessing that someone writing to a major university president and asking them for a lengthy quote on any topic, with the response to be sent to a gmail account, probably wouldn't have a terrific success rate.