Trout yes, Verlander eh probably, but Altuve? Over Pujols? Over Miguel Cabrera? Over Max Scherzer? Jose Altuve’s best year would barely crack Pujols’s top 10. Jose’s a great little guy who can make a lot of contact and play bad defense at second base, let’s not get carried away.

It’s important to remember that Mike Trout, the greatest baseball player currently playing the game, fails to put the ball in play twenty percent of the time. Jurickson Profar, a former number one prospect who’s been playing baseball better than you ever could, gets a hit only 21 percent of the time. You are never,…

This is a dumb comment, because yes the act does give an unfair advantage. The ball gets played by the arm away from his body and travels directly to a teammate in the box, who uses the ensuing scramble to score. How is that not an advantage? If his arm is against his body, the ball passes between the two players and…

Won’t somebody please think of the oil billionaires? Please somebody, set these injustices right! The slavers who hate women and gay people deserve to get every break, to hell with the rules! This could decrease City’s point total unfairly from 100 to 98 this season!

Cry me a fuckin’ river, Jesus.

As somebody who saw a lot of the 2012 Athletics, I’ve heard of Adam Rosales far too much.

He’s literally being paid to tell people what he thinks on TV. Considering that he’s a Hall of Fame pitcher with a Cy Young to his name, I dunno if it’s all that weird to think people might want to hear his thoughts on pitching and/or pitchers.

Admittedly, an NBA team holds like, 10 people on it. You can basically retire whatever numbers you want and there’ll still be shitloads more.

The man got charged and convicted of being a racist, has bitten three different people on the pitch, and acted as a shithouse over and over again. I’m sure he does charity, every athlete does, but saying he’s a ‘good person’ is a stretch. Dude’s an asswipe.

This series inevitably brings out the dumbest takes possible, and I can’t tell if they’re that way because everyone’s taking the piss, or if it’s that way because everyone’s dumb.

“Classless, petty, skin-crawling, appalling, awful,” is also a good summary of how Toronto fans acted on Monday. The bad sportsmanship virus is spreading.

It’s tough when you’re wearing an eye-patch.

No, I think this is right in line with the Kyle Lowry we all know and love.

Yeah, the angle ABC chose to show was pretty bad, and they never showed it from the reverse angle, where the contact was obvious. Bad production values, but they gotta keep throwing checks at Mark Jackson, y’know?

The smart play now would be to take money from NCAA teams who are courting you, then fuck them off to go play basketball for money overseas. Because then what are the schools gonna do? Tattle on themselves to the NCAA?

When are they gonna fire you man? Your writing’s atrocious and your takes are stupid at best. They’ve got a new soccer writer who does everything better than you. What do you contribute besides clickbait trash?

I love shit like this. Just some random blogger calling it and getting to say “I told you so,” for the rest of their life.

I agree with this. I think GMs of teams that aren’t going to either a. Have a chance, or b. spend any money on a player, say this so they can hopefully get the fans to cover their ass for them. “Oh Machado doesn’t hustle, so I don’t mind losing out on the 30 WAR 26 year old to the Padres.”

I’m pretty sure the difference is just that it’s way easier to read plays from a top-down perspective than when a bunch of 6 and a half foot tall men are charging at you trying to take your head off.

Remember when Peyton Manning got hurt for a year, and the Colts went from winning their division to picking first in the draft?

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