No, it’s a refutation of the idea that a league must artificially produce parity in order to be popular and successful.

You continue to miss the point. The system in place fails at its own justification. BOTH the max contract and the salary cap contribute to a situation where less desirable destinations are unable to meaningfully distinguish themselves to players. Keeping either or both basically hamstrings teams like Utah from being…

Nothing stops the richest owners in MLB or the English Premier League or La Liga from doing that, and those sports are doing pretty okay. In any case, I’m not arguing that getting rid of the cap/max/draft (abolish all three!) would be some utopian solution. I’m simply observing that none of those three really deliver…

MLB “special” uniforms have gotten truly abysmal. The pink, baby blue, camo, now this? Every damn weekend is something new and awful.

“and this is my Jack Sock, well.. jack sock”

More clownish than the “one leg stars, one leg blue” shit?

Isn’t the answer obvious? Cum rag.

Baseball is a really fun sport. I’m always happy when someone tries to learn it for the first time.

We’re feeling sorry for the kid who snatched some shit as it was landing in someone else’s lap? Fuck that kid.

Only tangentially related, but those American flag-inspired jerseys are the most clownish things I’ve seen on a baseball field. The stars in the typography look like polka dots from afar. Yeesh.

Serious question - what does one do with a “game used” towel? Do you frame it? Do you wash it? I barely know what to do with my regular towels.

Exactly. This is basically the same concept as Gawker’s old “Brands Are Not Your Friend” post. 

Yeah. I’ve written that I think players, in exchange for the money and adulation, should probably not do things in a way that makes their fans feel like chumps for being so over-invested in what is, emotionally, an incredibly lopsided relationship. (So, not to beat a dead horse, but I had no problem with LeBron…

Too many people define their lives in way too large a part by what sports teams they like and don’t like. It’s pretty sad.

The implication that teams (and fans) are “giving” these players “everything” out of anything other than self-interest is particularly hilarious

I’ll never understand why people get so butthurt about an adult who has every right to take whatever job he wants doing just that.

(googles Boston Busing Riots) To be fair, those rocks being hurled at black schoolchildren WERE subtle.

Hopefully that fire doesn’t get out of hand. I don’t know how he’d be able to explain the damage to his wives.

I bet Hayward is just thrilled he doesn’t have to deal with any of this nonsense in Boston, where the only thing they burn is crosses.