Bingo. A very accurate take.

Never. It’s basic awfulness is what causes both its avoidance and its use.

The most incredible piece (and it applies to all 3 of those you named) is that these guys aren’t just striking out everybody, they never walk anyone either. Historically, your high strikeout, hard-throwing types had lots of walks. These guys are flat out painting with gas too.

So you’re the Phillies... and you’ve sucked for a long time.... and yet you keep a guy at AAA who is on pace for 40+ homers at the highest minor league level at the Age of 24 until the season is nearly over. Better late than never I suppose.

Fully exposing myself to being a labelled a “pantywaist, sissy, trying to ruin football” type, but Burfict needs to be gone. This sport was never envisioned to be open season on trying to injure or maim other players.

Correct on all points. It’s what makes the myriad of steroid cocktails all the more disruptive when introduced into this psyche. I’ve seen life-long friends who were juiced to the gills physically tear into one another at a cable machine in the gym over something too insignificant to be believed. A few days later,…

Why is the outfield shifted heavy to left, but the infield shifted heavy to the right side? That makes absolutely no sense especially since the teams that use the shift most to their advantage do so in conjunction with pitchers who are able to hit spots so as to drive the desired outcome.

I project a short half-life with the team.

Implicit in all of these cases is a presumption that the player is guilty as hell. Guess what? I think they’re guilty as hell too, but if no woman (or man as the case may be) will stand up, take the case to court and see the person convicted for their crimes (even if that means a plea deal for a lesser conviction),…

Well, I’ll tell you this much, they could have put the new stadium just inside the gates of Hell and it would have been an improvement over the most recent stadium location.

Dickey Serves Up Massive Stanton Dong.

And the truth is, they would pack the place and rake paper like no tomorrow. Tebow goes 2-14 and it’s the most profitable season in Dolphins history.

Photographer: “No, I need more disinterested. You still look like you care a little. I’m going for quintessential Cutler.”

Knew Matt Maloney when he was in college- hadn’t thought about him in a long time. His career in the NBA shows show crazy guaranteed contracts are. Now he’s no Bobby Bonilla, but he played virtually zero games after the 2001 season, and yet earned over $11 million dollars from 2002-2005.

“Rickey knew all this about Rickey before all you guys told Rickey.”

Anyone who has spent time in weight rooms since the late 80's on has encountered less-successful versions of Guerrero. There are always snake-oil types many of whom also sport a DC after their name. The Doctor of Chiropractic is usually a dead giveaway along with the Advocare shirt.

Then by all means let’s get him some and speed this up.

Really, I mean a team keeps Clipboard Jesus, but won’t let real Jesus hold a clipboard, and they banish him to the Mets.

Generally accepted as the exact intersection of Jackon’s paycheck with the amount of time he guaranteed he would be in that movie.

How I met your mother, Phil-style.