Harden delivered a stilted message of apology to China as a whole. “We apologize, we love China, we love playing here,” Harden said, as Westbrook nodded in the background. “We love everything they’re about ...”

With that reporter, I’ve never seen Harden and Westbrook so willing to pass.

They were in Japan. You can’t criticize another country if you’re in a similar time zone? 

Harden always getting bailed out by the refs.

I’m no kershaw fan but isnt that kinda mean of SI???

This baffled me too, especially after Dave Martinez played his hand by putting out Hudson in the 9th. That was the tell right there.

Given Kelly’s unpredictability in this series, I thought Roberts was lucky to get through the ninth and cruel to leave him in for the 10th.
That being said, I was rooting for the Nats, so I’m good with that decision.

Did his dad abandon them in October? That would explain a lot.

There was an old saying about the Braves and their pitching staff whenever the playoffs rolled around in the 90's.

“the greatest pitcher of his generation”

Weird that it took a meltdown of a generational talent for the Nats to finally win a fucking playoff series.

They are rightly pissed that there was no notification on this. Some people went to bed and woke up today to no power and when they found a way to see what was up were told it could be Monday before they got power back.

This is third world territory.

What if I told you that on most flights, the only difference between the bathrooms in first-class and the bathrooms in coach is the location? Unless you’re flying internationally on a jumbo jet or something, first class bathrooms are exactly the same as coach bathrooms.  I just figured someone should tell you before…

I don’t know when the “I don’t need no stinkin’ expert” phenomenon began

Why link to the horrible Daily Mail when there are not-shitty publications with more thoughtful coverage?

EXACTLY. I don’t know when the “I don’t need no stinkin’ expert” phenomenon began and I can only hope it’ll reach its zenith soon, but I wish people would even consider the notion that a layperson cannot correctly assess everything. If you are even remotely familiar with diagnostic criteria, let alone discerning it in…