Not gonna lie, I went to bbref and typed in “Brick” just to see what would come up before making this comment. Brick Smith!

Craig Brick was a 27th Round pick out of UC-Irvine who overcame Tommy John surgery and some control issues in the minors to become a solid 7th inning setup guy for a few years, posting a 3.24 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and a K/BB ratio of 3.76 in his best year when he tied for the league lead in Holds. I look forward to…

And here I thought “The Blair Walsh Project” was the biggest horror movie in the NFL this year...

From the team that brought you “Blight Sox,” get ready for some “Bulls Shit!” premiering this fall!

Damn, I was gonna come in here and make a Hideki Irabu joke, but somehow I’d never seen the story of his death:

The “Epcot Centre” Twitter account is pretty amusing:

I’m not happy about any of this, but I do remember Mexico being a whisker away from not qualifying the last time around until this happened:

Oh good, someone gave him the Penske file to start working on.

Just like with the Mets, dysfunction makes for enjoyable copy for otherwise dispassionate sports fans, and broad, spiraling dysfunction can be more fun than following your own teams some times.

Kinja appears to have eaten my very cogent comment about this (Nibbles!) but basically, Martinez crushed it in A and AA ball and Houston tried to skip him over AAA. He struggled in the majors and they released him, which was as dumb as the Twins releasing David Ortiz back in the day. The Tigers scooped him up, he…

Houston brought him to the majors before he had had much time in (let alone mastered) the AAA level. He scuffled in 2012 and 2013 because we was still leveling up. And the Astros just straight up released him! That’s a David-Ortiz-with-the-Twins level fuckup. His numbers in the low minors were great and the Tigers are…

I think the biggest story here is how well I apparently understand Romanian. Senzaţional!

ESPN Deportes: Bad Hombres Juegan Aquí!

great, now there’s a tear in my beer

Fair point, also Sloan Stephens, Kei Nishikori, etc. I was thinking mostly of Country Club Tennis, I guess.

I know Stella is from Belgium, don’t “actually” me

Heineken he keep making all those Stella saves?

I think we need a definitive ranking of the whitest sports - hockey, lacrosse, tennis, golf, polo, NASCAR, dressage, cycling, etc.

This is my viewpoint as well

Walter Johnson’s strikeout accomplishments need more love (segregation and usage and fewer team issues aside). In 1910 he had 190 more Ks than the #10 pitcher, and 189 more than #10 in 1912. Rube Waddell in 1904 also had 200 more Ks than the #10 pitcher. The 2016 split was way less than 100 Ks between #1 and #10.