That is my favorite, too, but I do also appreciate this nugget:

One difference is that “not guilty” as opposed to “innocent” reflects the fact that the burden is on the state. When a jury retires to deliberate in a criminal case, they are not deciding whether the evidence proves the defendant is innocent, but rather whether the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that…

Rosen goes through the list of who is to blame for the Knicks’ dismal season: Knicks fans, because they love Melo even when he stinks and supposedly won’t tolerate a rebuild;

too many urban types

I was happy about this at first, but the more I think about it, I’m going to miss having the inexplicable ramblings of Phil Simms as part of my Sunday routine. Trying to figure out what the fuck he was talking about was a great way to pass the time with friends during replay reviews, commercials and the other 10,000…

this needs more stars. it has mine.

Eh, there’s no expectation of privacy here, and I’d argue this crossed over from an amusing occurrence to actual news when security came to talk her down for her rowdy cursing the first time and she didn’t stop, apparently in their view requiring two more visits, even after which she kept at it. She’s not just any…

Nah, podcasts are good. If you’re relying on them as a source of information - pure, who/what/when/why facts about the world - then you’re using them wrong. They shouldn’t replace reading; they’re an entirely different medium. What good podcasts are great for is discussion. Multiple well-informed people not just…

No, you were just casting aspersions on others for articulating that criticism by suggesting they were acting out of partisan bias against Tebow rather than, you know, the fact that his career is at this point and has for some time been “a spectacle, a money grab, or a waste of time. ... a joke.”

I still can’t understand the vitriol this man inspires in the left-wing circles of sports analysis.

lol I never even noticed that, but I just checked and it wasn’t a copy/paste fuckup. He legit used the not-word “aliented.”

GAH those eyes! He’s staring through my soul!

How could the sentence “Using the NFL as a platform for his causes is his priority” possibly refer to any of the stuff you just described?

As a youngish person who works at a newspaper, this is why I always roll my eyes when a colleague rails against clickbait; the local sports columnist - and, sadly, the local politics columnist at some papers - was clickbait before there were even clicks. It’s a century old tradition of taking the most inflammatory,…

Sure, and I’m not arguing the Bears were wrong to trade him when they did, but there’s a gap between recognizing that a situation has become toxic enough that dealing a player is the right move and torching a guy as “embarrassing” and “intolerable” on his way out the door. (Which, of course, is on the columnist and…

Exactly.

I think this is in reference to Marshall’s efforts to raise awareness for Borderline Personality Disorder, which apparently were considered a distraction among the hallowed grounds of Halas Fricken’ Hall.

Brandon Marshall is unjustly maligned in Jets circles for infamously proclaiming he was “going down in the boat with Ryan Fitzpatrick” during the debacle that was last season, as well as his feud with Sheldon Richardson, but as a fan I enjoyed his time with the team and believe he definitely has good football left in…

Your point was they should get rid of him because Dak, is the QB. No one is disputing that fact.

Ah, crap. It turns out that, actually, imstupid.