“He was the most powerful and craziest motherfucker ever. So powerful and crazy we had to expel him from the Vanguard.”

This was *very* vanilla D1 in terms of the depth and writing of the story, down to the good old fallback <Cryptic Adjective> <Flora Noun> construction of the macguffin.

Good luck being impolite enough to say that to our faces.

100 percent, baseball.

Many of them didn’t go to college. Most of them don’t have to talk to or work together with most of their teammates. The American-born populate skews white, rural and southern. And the game itself rewards those who are great at swinging a bat free and clear of thinking (that isn’t an insult — you…

Major props to Cohen for a response that somehow did not include the phrase “what the fuck?”

“Brick, are you saying that there’s a party in your pants and that I’m invited?”

“That’s it!”

“Did Brian tell you to say this, Brick?”

“No. Yes. He did.”

Yeah, if there was *anything* on Obama, it would come out. There are entire industries predicated on the notion that he is the Antichrist. And while I wouldn’t put anything past any man, he is deeply governed by his legacy in ways that I can’t see him casting off at the behest of his dick.

I was going to say it seemed awfully hard for the math to work out that giving up the baserunner is worth the fresh count, but then I looked at Judge’s splits and his OPS at 0-2 is half his average, so there might actually be something there. This presumes, of course, that he can get a more favorable count the next…

Which escalates the little league gamesmanship to an amazing place.

Honestly, this is better than most TV draft analysis.

Skyrim was more epic, had amazing geography and probably did a number of mechanics better, but in terms of delightfully weirdness and personal storytelling, Oblivion was much more memorable to me. Skyrim felt like it had very little to do with my character. Oblivion felt like a series of weird, small side stories that…

The Thieves Guild was excellent! The Gray Fox was so delightful, and the quest to steal the Elder Scroll was one of the more memorable and inventive across all of TES.

I fondly remember cleaning of Caesar’s camp in FA:NV, which had an awful lot of high-powered guards roaming around, in similar fashion. Go in friendly, wire the chokepoint into the arena to blow, shoot the fucker in his tent, jump into the arena and wait for the pathfinding-bound guards to run around and into the kill…

I do feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever someone describes Skyrim as one of the best games of all time and it’s not even the best of the last three Elder Scrolls games.

Yeah, there are more serious potential issues here than DNL seems to acknowledge. At best, it’s not great for the workplace environment to have an older man treating every young woman who comes through as his dating pool. At worst, there are real power dynamics issues. At my company, this is definitely a situation HR…

The case against Goodell is obvious — he has done a certified shit job of managing just about every major issue that’s come across his desk. He has also done much of it in service of a group of owners who have themselves done a shit job putting forth any sort of workable forward-looking vision for the league.

Um, unless you’re a sheltered 18th-century British aristocrat who fell through a time portal into the plot of Bull Durham, you have no business whatsoever saying “have a catch.”

I have nothing constructive to add to the discourse about language, power and appropriation, BUT I do have something to add about Peter Vecsey being a pillow-soft dick. As this controversy was playing out last night, my buddy realized he couldn’t see the Bad Tweet because Vecsey had blocked him years ago for a mildly…

Also if your black friends tell you you’re allowed to say it, you’re lying about having black friends.

Has *he* made the league immensely rich, though, or did he happen to be commissioner in an era in which TV money for live sports was blowing up across the board?