I have a feeling the music supervisor didn’t make the cut. :(

“What was that music we had beneath the montage of Tour de France training footage? I’ve got an idea...”

SVP is the anti-Berman. ESPN lucked the fuck out the day they hired him. Not saying he was always great - it took him some time to grow into what he is now - but damn if he isn’t the best part of the network for the past several years.

Fascinating how “cutting executive pay” is always way down the list when it comes to time to pay for bad decisions made by executives.

You know what might have actually helped in the long term? Cutting the executives, some of whom are surely making some pretty large salaries, who decided overpaying for TV rights was a good idea.

anyone noticing a pattern in this comment?

Barry Melrose is an odd hill to die on.

Cmon, Sage Steele.....

please...

The clusterfuck of the Korean situation is a intricate one that needs a thoughtful and measured response from a someone skilled in international relations, and that this response might include a military action - but only after careful consideration.

ok good talk

There’s a lot to be said about Sharapova’s public profile, her marketing income and opportunities vs. Williams’ despite Williams’ dramatically superior on-court career, etc., etc., etc.

To be fair the wife and kid probably wanted him to go back to work. I mean could you imagine spending more that a day with that guy?

It’s easy. If you look at only the uppercase letters, they spell “The payoff was not worth the small effort it took to figure this out.”

When did Ken Griffey Jr end up on the known juicers list?

How did he go from a 6.41 ERA (!) with 108 K’s at age 32 to a 2.77 ERA with 180 K’s at age 36 with the Cubbies? It’s certainly a head-scratcher.

Great closing paragraph in that SB Nation article you linked to

God, John Lackey is such a fucking pud.

BIG IF TRUE.

Wait a second, hold up, back up the Wordageddon train...