ESPN has a cool profile of Ichiro that is chock-full of anecdotes and details about his routine. Highlights: Ichiro used to give a profanity-laden pump-up speech in English to his all-star teammates every year; he’s been trying to work as an emergency pitcher since he came into the league; he really does hit a ton of…

And what happens? I’m only asking because the most successful third party candidate in recent history was Ross Perot in ‘96. He got 8.3% of the popular vote and it didn’t hurt Clinton or Dole.

So is this safe to assume:

Venezuela was fucked under capitalism, too. I love how people tend to have selective, and terribly short, memories when it suits their ideological outlooks. Or perhaps they never had memories to begin with, but simply chose to be completely fucking ignorant about everything other than the narrow target of their…

If only we had more awareness about guns in America

by making them appear in Budweiser commercials!

This isn’t much of an insight. Philly fans are openly self-loathing and miserable. It is how we were raised - surrounded by endless losing. It is a fan base that turned on Cole Hamels in 2009 because he foolishly won the Phillies a World Series and they/we didn’t know how to emotionally handle that kind of aberration.

I assume you are the asshole who screamed, “Caps suck!” during Ed Snider’s moment of silence. Glad it took all of four days for our fans to start dishonoring Snider’s memory by using him to justify idiotic behavior.

This is cute and all, and I’m sure you weren’t directly responsible for the stuff I’m about to mention, but there were more than a few Flyers fans in the comments here, on PHT, on Puck Daddy, etc. etc. that spent most of the last six weeks talking about how the Flyers were the team no one wanted to play, they’re…

Ahh no I don’t listen to sports radio because it tends to be pretty stupid. Realistically, it’s highly unlikely they’ll be able to get close to the Cup this year. I would be happy if they at least won one for Snyder, but they’re gonna have to play a hell of a lot better than they did last night to do it.

Funny, the CBC broadcast was quite similar. That anal fissure Glenn Healy was like, “Now the Caps are in trouble. They’re only up one goal, scored on the power play, so this is definitely just like the Rangers series last year, where they also only scored one goal.”

Eh, all local broadcasts are homerish. The Pittsburgh local feed is a nightmare, be glad that their network is not an NBC/Comcast affiliate.

Well, to be fair, I don’t blame Philly people for being oblivious to the NBA. It’s been awhile since they’ve seen professional hoops there.

Touche, well played.

I’m pretty sure NBC just simulcasted that nationally. I couldn’t hear a whole lot of what they were saying, mostly because I spent the whole time repeatedly asking God what I had done to deserve the Flyers broadcast

THIS.

Speaking of conspiracy theories, was Blake Griffin quoting “Uptown Funk” three years ago?!?! #illuminati