Counterpoint: LaVar Ball is a REALLY terrible dad.

I’m not going to say LaVar Ball is a bad dad, but LaVar Ball is a terrible dad.

Surely it should count for something that Tatum is a 20-year-old second-year player while Wiggins is 23 and in his fifth pro season, yeah?

I want to preserve this beautiful comment forever

Everyone at the game knew what he was doing the second he reached under that pad and they fucking loved it. It was a fun bit of fan service and the entire fox broadcast crew can be sewn together in a human centipede ouroboros and eat shit forever for all I care. 

As soon as he started to come out of the end zone, I thought, “Well, this is stupid.” Even if he does happen to make it to the 25, which my anecdotal experience says has never happened since the new kickoff rule was established, why risk the injury, much less the potential for turnover?

At least the third season of Making A Murderer will be better.

Rodgers gets to go home and add to his years-long list of reasons why he’d be justified in murdering his teammates and coaches.

Really disappointed here. First he laughs at the performance, then he doubles down on the disrespect. Personally, the way I was raised, I’ve always felt that sort of thing was hitting below the belt. 

The titles for all Mushnick columns should really start with FWD: FWD: FWD:

I love your dry, clean sense of humor.

Not being familiar with “permanent press” is what got him into this mess to begin with!

It’s fine to criticize Smoltz as a broadcaster, but you can’t hold him to the same standards as an actual journalist or beat writer. Smoltz is a guy who just drops in once a week to talk about a baseball game, it’s not as if he’s a member of the permanent press. 

“If it seems like I am picking and choosing the parts I like from this book here, it’s because I very much am.”

There is nothing in any way bad about somebody valuing you as a friend. If you feel bad about being in the “friend zone,” do your unsuspecting friend the kindness of letting them know you’re a creepy asshole who has no use for their friendship except as it affords you proximity for continuing to try to fuck them, and…

In theory, that could mean he’s leading his receivers and seeing routes they will take after the catch.

okay but if “analytics” supposedly “work,” how did the Yankees lose 62 games this season? Huh??

LMAO, FAIR POINT

“I have some quibbles with Rowling’s world building—how does magic work, exactly?”