God that Nike template is just so lazy. Hey lets just take a shirt and make the sleeves an oddly darker shade, job done. I suppose it is probably better than what the other option was, which presumably consisted of jerking a highlighter off all over the shirts.

DH, indoor stadium, astroturf........#NotMyBaseball

ObamaCare attacked and murdered all those Americans in Benghazi which Hillary emailed Weiner about. How have you missed this?

This point is not getting enough play. Remember it was Lebron who forced the Thompson max deal.

Lets take this exercise a step further. I mean look at the Pittsburgh Pirates bench. You had up and coming stars like Alan Hanson and Gift Ngoepe get down and your stuck with cast offs like Jaso. Meanwhile any actual good players (Bell, Polanco, Glasnow) skip the bench phase and go right into the starting role,…

Agree its as if our school system leaves a lot to be desired...

He was probably just hoping that after a few years their top ranked defenses would drop below league average and give up lots of scores.

If by “magically won the lottery” you mean followed a fairly exact formula that took into account multiple years of performance and therefore was even more fair than normal then yeah sure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_NHL_Entry_Draft).

But yeah keep thinking the fucking bumbling NHL somehow planned and executed…

“Major market viewers are already watching...”

In the numbers they would be with the best player in the league? Are you really gonna argue that ratings would not be higher, both nationally and locally, with Crosby in Toronto or New York than if he were in Pittsburgh???

It absolutely makes sense to orchestrate things for major markets, large markets in general equal more eyeballs and excitement and eyeballs and excitement can monetized through advertisements, ticket sales, merchandise etc. It also makes sense for players to gravitate to major markets to pull in more endorsements.

And…

I love when old commenters do this shit. My personal favorite is the “decline in journalism and emergence of fake news” columns which completely ignore history seeing as the Spanish American war was literally started by dubious journalism and fake news propagated by a man who has one of the highest awards in…

Not to mention the handed multiple superstars line of thinking doesn’t hold up on inspection. The pens took Malkin second overall in 04 but he wasn’t allowed out of Russia by his team over there for the entire season. He had to sneak away on a trip to Finland. If your team is shitty and your first round pick doesn’t…

A situation like this should really be used to disprove the media’s use of the crutch, “unwritten rules.” I played baseball all the way through college and was a catcher and can say 99% of the time a pitcher threw at someone it was because he was an asshole, not because there was some made up code to be followed. If…

I thought the only sports teams in Tennessee were in Knoxville???

Those pink unis are god awful

Does this mean she’s gonna skip the bottom tier big ten viewing area noon ESPN2 kickoff on Saturday?!?!?!? Whose announcing Northwestern Purdue????

I think there’s a tendency to over estimate how much current events will be reflected in history. I think his legacy will follow one of two paths, either theres some resolution to these Russian investigations and he ends up like Nixon and children will learn all about him like you say. Or he makes it through one term…

Libertarian family man for closed borders and free market cognitive dissonance.

There we go.

Next thing you know he’s going to consistently get jammed at the plate and hit bloopers over second.

John Wall doesn’t play for the White Sox, why is he getting a writeup?