In addition to the lifetime of work on the skills and game, they tend to also be people who are also blessed with physical ability that most of us just don’t have, and can’t get no matter how hard we work. I’m 6'3", 230-something, I could break my back my whole life and I would never be a decent climber on a road…

Wrong place... editing it out... sorry.

I mean, have you seen NBA refs?  The no-name guy could literally get stabbed and not get a call while shooting...

In the NBA and NFL there are defenders who are right there, bodying up on you and keeping you off the ball in the first case, and smashing you into a future CTE case in the other.  I don’t believe I could do any of these, but given enough tries, I think a person who played competitive baseball at some level would have…

Correction here: Manny Ramirez’s 1991 batting average in that single high school year was .650. Take that one in.

.650

Man, I had the privilege of being utterly, completely humbled and smoked by the point guard for my [mediocre athletic liberal arts] college’s DIII team at the older unused gym I used to go shoot around in on my own.  He just happened to show up to shoot himself and we played a little one on one. 

I’m no one’s idea of…

I remember someone mentioning that Manny Ramirez hit .500 throughout his high school career. I’d say anyone who makes the pros, even in a limited context, is pretty well a local hero in all but bigger cities. We have a kid from my current (tiny) city who was drafted by the Cleveland Indians, and everyone knows his…

It’s kind of amazing to think that those two dudes in the lead photo are in fact the same species.

I always think about the fact that the lowliest benchwarner on any given professional team was The Guy With The Ball at every other stage of their career. It’s so easy to forget.

As a Giants fan, I’d love to see the Chiefs win a Super Bowl more than anyone other than my team normally, and honestly... the Giants are so hard to watch sit on their own balls at the moment, that you might have passed them.

“If the Chiefs don’t at least appear in a Super Bowl by the end of the 2020 season, their last appearance will be chronologically closer to the end of World War I than modern day.”

Or as we call it in New York, the Knicks Event Horizon.  We’ll keep a seat warm for you at the bar.  The hemlock shots are excellent. 

Yeah, this seemed incredibly endearing to me as well.

 In the spirit of the ninth and thirteenth, this passage seems apt:
Matthew 9:13

I’m a Yankee fan and a Knick fan. Please don’t mention them in the same breath, ever.

As a Giants fan, I’d say it’s the other way around for me. Or would be, if I weren’t married to an Eagles fan. Or, more to the point, would be something I’d say out loud if I weren’t married to an Eagles fan.

I kid of course.  Nothing and no one is as wretched as Snyder’s racist raiders.

I think possibly the single worst human being ever to have a submission published for WYTS that I can think of, honestly.

Damn.  I forgot how unbelievably deeply spot on that scene was.

Yeah, I couldn’t help thinking Teddy was probably the single worst fan person to put a fan submission in.  Just the worst as a human being... amazing.

DIV#/0!

One who retires is a retiree.

FIFY.