They can’t fence off the entire route, and on climbs they’re going slow enough that you get “runners.” Most fans I know hate them. They do put barriers up on the final 2k of the route and near the summits of categorized climbs, but that means the idiot fans congregate right before the barriers.

Bike racing has the funniest, with cyclists peeing while riding, legs splayed to avoid the stream.

I can’t believe I’m siding with Marlins Man in anything involving ethics, but here we are. 2016, ladies and gentlemen.

“African-registered”.

It’s been a while since Cav outsprinted both Greipel and Kittel, plus Sagan in the mix, and he didn’t have the best leadout either. Great win for him.

The Sharks took Teemu Riihijarvi in 1995 with the 12th overall pick (right after Igninla). He wasn’t on anybody’s draft boards, never played in North America, and I don’t even remember him ever coming to camp. Such a waste of a 1st round pick.

It’s not usually a matter of not liking it, it’s if the wine has turned. That’s why they leave the cork. Corked wine (usually) means the wine oxidized through the cork, so you’d be able to see discoloration on the cork.

Very disappointing. When I used to follow Kaufman on Twitter, he wrote a lot about trying to change the perception of BR and professionalize the writers.

I watched Ken Starr argue a case before the SCOTUS. Even Scalia thought he was full of shit. It’s weird seeing him fail Deposition 101, though.

Did you know that Roughned Odor has a younger brother that also plays baseball named...Roughned Odor?

And the reason is that there’s no weight behind it. Whereas the n word and the Washington football team’s name are terms that were used by whites to describe the people they were legally allowed to kill.

Livin’ dat Flonase lyf.

You’re underselling how much of a pain in the ass it is to spread creamed honey. How in the world did you spread the creamed honey on the bread without mashing it into a tortilla-thin bunch of broken pieces?

Imagine a think-piece about how certain athletes have attitude problems and are “thugs” slowly simmering in the reporter’s brain.

He’s over there. And there. And there. And there, there, there, there. Also, my name is Sully. Nice Dropkick Murphys hoodie.

Well, the good news is you just tempered it again. Heat treating steel blades usually involves hardening the blade at very high temperature, quenching it to set the molecular structure, then tempering it for a while at low (400-ish degree) temperature.

Well, the good news is you just tempered it again. Heat treating steel blades usually involves hardening the blade…

Yeah, I know. The league relented. Read John Scott’s story in the Player’s Tribune if you want details about how the league treated him before the trade.

In unrelated news that might also shed some light on how trustworthy the NHL is on potential conflict of interest issues:

I actually think this was the author’s attempt to soften the original sentence, maybe at the suggestion of an editor? But holy hell does it miss the point. There are two ideas in it, one of them monstrous: 1) it’s tragic that people apparently only believe his victims deserve to recover and 2) he hopelessly and…

Are we retroactively giving odd years before they won in 2010 meaning now? 2009 was a miserable year. But not as miserable as “batting second, second baseman Neifi Perez!”