‘Murica.

I don’t like Kobe, but that’s a pretty great answer.

A rich, morally challenged guy who always seems to escape any consequences, no matter what he does, who has a foreign-born, (ex)model, trophy-wife. It’s hard to see why they would be friends.

What is the level below “farce”? Because that’s what Trump’s campaign has descended into.

Pavement are pretty close to my favourite band ever, but I was always amazed at how much grief that one line in “Range Life” seemed to create. And while I think that Billy Corgan is a grade A douche, you really can’t mess with the early Pumpkins records. Gish, Lull, and Pisces Iscariot are all great, and Siamese Dream…

I’m with you, but Toronto fans don’t have a very good track record when it comes to this. Vince Carter only stopped getting the business a few seasons ago. It’s pretty embarrasssing.

Or how about when people assume that the biological mother of a mixed race baby is the nanny? True story.

This is probably the part of parenthood that I hate the most. It is infinitely more awkward than anything that used to happen in my past life. A lot of the time, the only thing you have in common with the stranger you are making painful small-talk with is the fact that at some point in the last few years, you both had…

I never liked Kobe. Even in the early years when he was the smiling golden boy of the Sprite commercials. And I don’t know why, because I love Jordan, and it’s widely acknowledged that he’s a terrible human being. That said, despite being a horrible teammate and person, in his prime no one could mess with Kobe. I wish…

“We talkin’ about practice?!”

I guess he took it in the fleshy part of the head...

There’s research going back as far as the 1930s (ie. The Clark doll experments) which shows the effects of internalized self-hatred among minority children. I can’t stand Jindal, but think of where and when he grew up, and of all the taunts and slurs he must have endured. He probably prayed to be white every night,…

Hey there. I’m not white, and I play hockey. There’s a lot of us out there now, with more on the way.

He was a very good baseball player, that’s it. His politics, or beliefs don’t affect what he did on the field. I used to struggle with that, and maybe still do a little bit, but you have to separate the person from the athlete. For example, what would your book or record collection look like if you removed all the…

I actually kind of agree with you, but you don’t have to be a dick about it. I just don’t watch.

So just to clarify, the baseball purists are more upset that Bautista flipped his bat after the biggest home run of his life, than they are over Tejada’s broken leg, because that was “old school”, and just “a baseball play”? Does that sound about right?

Man, someone needs a hug.

I had no idea we (Jays fans) were so hated. Is that really a thing, or is it just butt-hurt O’s fans venting over yet another beatdown? The last time the Jays won, (most) people weren’t posting on internet discussion boards yet, so this is all new to me.

You are old-fashioned.

So are we still pretending that Mike Trout is somehow the default AL MVP? If Toronto’s last trip to Anaheim didn’t end that fallacy, then certainly everything that has happened since should have.