If Pierzynski ever decides to finally retire, it seems like he could have a great post-baseball career as a member of the LAPD.

I’m looking at the times for that route. It looks like they entered two, and only one finished with a time of 51 hours. It’s not armored (it’s missing the windows at least), and that’s about the slowest thing on the field. Slower than stock full size pickups by about 15 hours. So from a reliability standpoint, sure.…

Just goes to show that equipment is still vastly less important than the squishy bits behind the controls. The Iranians have positively antiquated tech but in a straight up fight with the Saudis, they’d still win without everybody else backing the Saudis up.

Saudi Arabia is supporting ISIS and Iran is fighting them...The Houthi’s main complaint that started their rebellion was about Yemen not doing enough to fight al Qaeda...al Qaeda hates ISIS and vice versa...the Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish governments all hate the Kurds and are fighting them while Kurdish…

Tactics and standard practices? Not much. It’s the same challenge with aircraft and other mil equipment. We can give the Saudis/Egyptians/other Arab countries all our top gear, but it doesn’t mean jack if they don’t constantly train and have the high maintenance standards that we do in the U.S.

It’s Reich. Yeah, he had a rough stretch towards the end in Detroit, but he spent years as a backup for a perennial power AND is forever a hero in two places for being the architect of both the greatest college AND NFL single-game comebacks in history. That’s amazing.

“Scrubs.”

Charlie Batch

Dubai is what happens when you cross the feel of Las Vegas, built to the scale of Los Angeles, with the architectural style of a northern Virginia office park.

Preach. It's arab Las Vegas.

That's what he gets for using his hands outside the box.

Red card for beating that A.S.S.