So, it’s certainly not in the top ten obnoxious/offensive things from the passages you quoted, but it still irks me coming from someone who’s made an enormous fortune as a professional writer: instead of “at least five-six” just say “at least five”.

Peeing your pants is the coolest!

I read somewhere that he basically refused to coach the scabs. He went out and bought 60 copies of something like “Coaching Football Dummies” and handed it out as the playbook, and pointedly refused to learn any of their names.

Buddy Ryan, hater of scabs: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-12-30/spo…

No, I’m not saying that — some is and some isn’t. What I’m saying, in the context of this conversation, is that claiming that a particular statement is racially charged is no more injecting politics into sports than claiming that showboating (by any athlete of any race) in sports has some broader significance about…

Exactly. Saying that Cam Newton showboating is emblematic of the loss of character in this country is sticking to sports, but saying such criticism is racially charged isn’t.

Tough call for Draymond Green — do you side with the kid for going at an opponent’s groin, or do you side with the player for almost doing something incredible but failing right at the end?

Arizona over Kentucky in 1997 was a lot of fun, and had the “seemingly unstoppable juggernaut with insufferable fans laid low by talented and fun underdog” factor in strong effect.

I was going to write something nearly identical, right down to watching it in my freshman year dorm. There were a handful of Yankees fans and no true Diamondbacks fans, but anyone who wasn’t a Yankees fan was rooting hard for the Diamondbacks.

My favorite variety of bad baseball trade rumor is people who think that if you add up enough OK players you can get enough to get a great player.

Yeah, I’m curious whether he just wanted to be as anti-ESPN as possible and not qualify his attack by listing the handful of people there he respects, or if he’s bitter at the people he obviously once admired who chose to stay there.

Now that’s more like it!

Ah, makes sense. Though far duller than all the different explanations I wanted to believe.

Is it common for the opposing GM to be watching the opposing team’s broadcast? Is there some kind of scouting/intelligence purpose to it, or does he just not like his own team’s announcers? That might be the strangest part of the story to me.

Yeah, cause there is nothing unique about the Bay Area that would lead to it having a uniquely large number of uniquely obnoxious recent transplants.

So how many Warriors fans can the Sharks bandwagon handle?

He who laughs last: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball…

Nice solace for Caps fans. Maybe they can hang a banner for the Bears next to the “Washington Mystics — WNBA Attendance Champions” banner in the Verizon Center.

Sure, there’s the bat flip, but I like to think all of this bad blood goes back to Colby Rasmus having the gall to try to counteract an opposing team’s strategy and get on base. http://deadspin.com/colby-lewis-ma…

You guessed exactly right, because the only options are “assume all sexual assault accusers are telling the truth” or “assume all sexual assault accusers are lying.”