Joule thief!

My brother in law is a Jets fan.  Talk about a guy who makes poor life choices. 

These days talking with other Jets fans almost invariably revolves around the question of “So when did you stop following football?”.

You see, this is why I’m moving on from Deadspin and their constant focus on politcs and heading more and more over to the Ringer where they are talking about the things that really matter to me as a sports fan like which Rom-Com from 2003 holds up the best. 

I hope she gets traded to Portland so that every Thorn has its Rose.

Meanwhile, at Madison Square Garden ...

Hotter, righter take: Anyone who likes college sports is a bad and weird person.

Every time I hear of this band I keep expecting it to be because Paul Simon caught up with them and beat them with a baseball bat.

i think it’s pretty cool that someone’s going to reinvent cable and call it an innovation

Something related to him “not saying it’s true, but just asking the question.”

“Bakersfield sound” is an established term for a subgenre of country music, FYI.

I was already 20 when Ichiro joined MLB and I think I’d thought I was years past the part of my life where a professional athlete could ever be the kind of immortal, larger-than-life figure that, say, Michael Jordan or Lawrence Taylor or Martina Navratilova had seemed to be when I was a kid. But Ichiro was—and in lots…

Baseball’s biggest problem right now--and I’m being serious--is that the people who run it do not appear to actually enjoy the game.

Hey, this guys seems pretty good at basketball. I think I’ll try to go see him in person and yell terrible things at him about his family and let my child shove him and then call the guy classless.

Let’s remember that these guys’ boss is faux-tough about paying players (link below). Fake tough because if you think he’s quitting a $6 million per year job over giving players $20,000 per year, you’re crazy or dumb.

Fixed. Apologies for inflicting Knicks on an unsuspecting reader.

Pup Guard-a-gola.

He’s on loan from Newell’s Good Boys.

Counterpoint - The Sun is going to eventually expand and consume the Earth*, killing everyone, which I believe is a little something called “murder,” so we are well within our rights to pre-emptively strike back at this deadly foe via any means necessary.