I don't watch his show and only see the shit takes that trickle down here. Has he ever made a coherent, sensible take that is measured and fact-based? 

to work for Sports Illustrated, even on the website, is to have worked for the same magazine that paid not just contemporary heavy-hitters like S.L. Price and Rohan Nadkarni, but also William Faulkner, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac.

Free!

Michael Lewis once said that you can never be too stupid to play baseball. Say no more.

This is cool; I hate Travel Nazis.

Remember, kids: Bourbon Street, butt. Frenchman Street, fun.

Stras will have something to look forward to when he returns in pinstripes. 

RIP Craggs.

Nasri

There.

Coldplay. Only answer is Coldplay.

There’s a lot of Football Drama I just don’t get. The dialogue can be overly poetic or inscrutable, and there are occasionally weird turns of phrase, like the press saying “we will storm your remarks on social media.” I wondered whether the latter was a translation issue or a poetic commentary on Twitter.

It seems slightly not as horrendous on Firefox compared to Chrome.

I get this argument, which recently came up when Liverpool fans walked out to protest ticket prices. That said, a simply lowly-attended MLS match would have received a fraction (if that) of the coverage that this action has garnered, so I still admire Sounders fans who did this.

The lower seam appears to affect certain grips for a number of pitchers, not everyone to the same degree. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Edwin Diaz, for one, lost command of his slider, but lots of pitchers still throw that pitch. And aside from movement the average velocity has increased pretty much every year for…

It’s not bullshit or a difficult concept. Before this silly rabbit ball, contact made with an uppercut swing would be a deep flyball or warning track shot; now that the ball travels farther, those clear the fence.

Along with these Disruption Ideas that Sawchik creduously passed along, he also holds up La Masia, Barcelona’s academy, as the optimal model for efficient player development, while curiously eliding the part that those academy prospects play proper competitive matches against other clubs’ academies, and that they…

Of the myriad ways MLBPA shot themselves in the dick, agreeing to a salary cap was by far the most egregious. Management simply learned to read the fine print and ruthlessly pursue maximum returns based on the rules that govern the sport.