It was a solid retraction too.

“You’re a left-hander and so is the pitcher. If I send up a right-handed batter it’s called playing the percentages. It’s what smart managers do to win ball games.”

It’s fine to criticize Smoltz as a broadcaster, but you can’t hold him to the same standards as an actual journalist or beat writer. Smoltz is a guy who just drops in once a week to talk about a baseball game, it’s not as if he’s a member of the permanent press. 

I used to play Strat-o-Matic baseball tournaments out on Long Island back in the 80's, some guys used this strategy all the time. They’d draft good bullpens, and then wait until the end of the draft to take 4 crappy starters with lopsided left right splits, have their opponent stack their lineups with righty hitters,…

The Indians reportedly warned the Red Sox of a staffer named Kyle McLaughlin prior to the ALCS.

Guys, it’s not Patriots fans who suck. It’s people from Massachusetts. 

Who the fuck is Told Butler?

Wow. Think of what Clevinger would do if Flores did something serious, like insult Morris Day and the Time.

Truly a crowning achievement.

“That’s a cool trick, Anna. But let me show you how to make a first round pick disappear.” -Vlade Divac

How in the hell is this not called Duck Cunt?

He also wrote the op-ed.

“DADDDDYYYYYY DIDNT GIVE ATTENTIOONNNNNNN”

And people say this guy was never IV league material.

a mysterious hand injury

Luckily, they only had to put him on the 3-day DL.

Could the Raptors flip him?

Then we get to the most bizarre pitch of the competiton: a pitcher delivering the ball from the zenith of a trampoline bounce

The pizza dominoes quickly started to fall:

But enough about Phil Jackson’s dick ...