Good time to remember that coming out of high school, his main comp was Magic Johnson. This should have been an impossible fucking comp for a teenager, yet he has far, far exceeded Magic and it is not even a debate.

Now I see what they were really feeling all over.

+1 Stadium Delay

Hear hear. Also, players who debut as a teenager and don’t embarrass themselves like Machado have often become greats, whereas Judge’s slow development and colossal size just do not look very promising.

“Why so much secrecy around this, particularly when you know the general feeling around the scientific community is we shouldn’t go ahead yet?,” asked Robin Lovell-Badge, a professor of genetics and embryology at the Francis Crick Institute in London, during the panel discussion, as reported by the NYT.

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Now watch me blow him out his shoes without clues

The only nice thing about my recent ex was that her birthday fell a week after Valentine’s, so it was acceptable to lowball the 14th because I Will Totally Make It Up On Your Birthday.

NFL will be around, but increasingly the player pool will resemble boxers: mostly lower income background, many born in other countries, and in general those who are willing to take a risk that Americans with more options simply decline.

We all miss the Jerome Zone, fam. We all do.

I have no idea what is ”Deflategate” but what you described sounds a lot like Ballghazi.

+1 from Hudson County

It was never going to be as big of a story in the US as it is in Europe, but even here there have been coverage. The two that I have read:

It will be more difficult because everyone will be two years older with 5-6 years of Finals runs in their treads.

1. Nobody ever made scoring the basketball look easier than a healthy and in his prime Tracy McGrady (and I didn’t even click on the video of the game where he scored, like, 100 points in 8 seconds, or something)

And as a fellow high school ‘01 graduate, I need Tyson Chandler to play forever.

Francesa is saving the touching tribute for when Al Alburquerque dies.

(Although Crenshaw himself told TMZ that he didn’t think that was necessary.)

The catch there I think is that while anyone can get called up by his national side, FIFA would in effect ban that player from FIFA competitions.

When it comes to elections, I will always prefer analog over digital, and especially anything plugged into the fucking internet.