Yeah, I have no particular love for Jerry Krause, but damn, Reinsdorf is getting off *super* easy in a lot of these recaps, and it is 100% because he’s still around and has sway with ESPN and people to defend him. The buck stops with the owner, right? He could have fixed Pip’s contract, he could have fired Krause or…

I’m currently for making most things in most sports reviewable, but with reviews capped at something like 30-45 seconds. That’s enough time to fix something like the Galarraga perfect game fuck-up, but not so much that it destroys the flow of the game. Can’t figure it out in under a minute? Call stands, back to the…

It’s a decent place to take in a game, but it’s a pale shadow of what it could have been. The Armour Square stadium could have given Chicago 2 of the 3 best stadiums in baseball and maintained the history of the Sox and their neighborhood, and it wouldn’t have felt like a big suburban box stadium dropped down in a sea…

Wow, this might actually be the worst sports take in GMG history. I get that the image in your head is probably late Miami/Phoenix-era Shaq, but over the course of his first 12 or 13 years in the league he was a defensive wall and basically an automatic 2 points within about 8 feet of the basket. If he’d managed to…

They have to go do the hard work in private, the way the rest of us normal people have to. And then, once they’ve actually done the work, they can try again with the whole “being a public figure” thing, but they should also be prepared to get told “nah, we’re good without you”. Nobody has a fundamental right to be a…

Rocket. Lets you use Slack’s style of :emoji_name: search everywhere.

I really, really loved the comments section on TNC’s Atlantic blogs. No disrespect to anywhere else, but that was the smartest comment section on the internet. I learned so much just from hanging out there and listening and talking to the people there. I’ve got probably 30 books on my shelves explicitly from…

Some of it is probably psychological: people didn’t grow up watching the Windy City Bulls of Hoffman Estates the way they grew up watching UNC or Duke or Syracuse. It’s more fun to play in front of packed arenas than it is to play in front of 5,000 people in Des Moines.

“Legislatively possible”: a bill that you could get Ben Nelson, Robert Byrd, Mary Landrieu, and Joe Lieberman to sign on to in the 60 days of actual filibuster-proof supermajority Congressional time that existed in 2009-2010, while you were also trying to pass the ACA.