While in the greater context of baseball lore, the choke job that the 2019 Cubs just executed is a classic, I think we overestimate a lot because it is the Cubs. After all, a good team being felled by injuries, by off-the-field drama, by a fanbase turning on a lame-duck manager and questioning a GM, these are…

It’s why the greatest rarely make good coaches. They don’t understand the mentality of normal players.

The best two players for the Knicks this season are R.J. Barrett and Julius Randle. They might as well lean into the suck, let Smith figure it out and, if they lose, so be it.

All Bill had to say is “we could not keep a player who was going to be a distraction from our goals this season. We hope that after today’s game, it becomes the past and we can all move on to talk about the players who are here.” There. Done.

The one time you want a defender to have a pancake ass...

So Bellichick won’t answer any questions, Brown will duck in and out of the locker room before the press has a chance to ask him any questions and the rest of the team is all going “WTF?”

Sounds like he’s the “foh clown”

You evil bastard! Here’s your +1

Forget putting him under the prison. They gonna have to build a whole new prison just for him.

I also think had he been the QB in Indy or Houston or Arizona, there would have been a bigger propensity to excuse his mistakes and take his talents for what they were. Being the QB in NY (because, let’s face it, the conga line of QBs the Jets trotted out while Eli was there was some shit) brought a greater sense of…

If Eli Manning had not been part of the Giants that beat those 2 Pats teams (specially the 18-1 team), I think the answer would be a lot easier regarding “Is Eli Manning a Hall of Famer”. Heck, if he had beaten just them once, it would be a lot easier to chalk it up to cosmic fluke or defensive talent with Strahan,…

Somewhere out West, the Dodgers brain trust starts thinking “Dear God, we dodged that one!”

Good piece, Diana. Part of me kept thinking that, even if he’s not been charged with a crime, the NFL would be smarter to simply tell Antonio Brown to stay away until it is sorted out. Pay him his money but tell him to stay home. After all, this will be the story until it has a resolution, whether he and the Patriots…

“Antonio Brown And The Conversation Nobody Wants To Have”

No, no. You gotta understand. That’s not racism. That’s just their way of speaking about athletes they venerate! They’re really showing respect to Lukaku by comparing him to a monkey. And they know this because they asked their two black friends.

The silver lining is that, if Brees is going to be out, he’ll miss facing the Seahawks and Cowboys’ defensive fronts. Thus avoiding the amount of wear and tear they’ll put on the Saints QB given their poor o-line.

Combine his playing style with a lack of o-line protection and WRs that have been iffy at best and downright bad at worst and, well, Cam done took a lot of beatings in his day.

My dad says he doesn’t really try, except during the playoffs.

How about putting the team in San Francisco...in 1849! That’s right. Forget building a new stadium elsewhere. Build a time machine and bring the Niners back to when land out in Cali was cheap and plentiful and only had to be built over 50% Native American burial grounds.

You say devious, I saw dumber.