Plus, actual column writers, like this guy up here, use brackets to denote an identification of someone in a quote when the person doesn’t actually say the name in the quote, e.g., “...column writers, like [Drew]...”

For food we had: Steak. Burgers. Bar-b-que. Pizza. Beer. Soda. Milkshakes. Mari-fucking-juana. A DJ. Ice cream cake.

I’m about as big a baseball fan as a person can be and I’m still a baseball fan despite it all so I agree the game’s troubles are overrated. That said, the game is in a bad place right now. Maybe not economically to a meaningful degree, I still subscribe to MLB.TV and everything so they’re still getting my money, but…

“Luke tossed his electrified ass into oblivion at the end of The Return Of The Jedi.”

I respect your commitment to big boy accuracy

Is that Peter King’s burner? 

Nothing defeats the windmill!

Nerd.

The Major sport that’s hardest on your body, is far and away the worst for your brain (and long term risks), but pays far and away the least and guarantees nothing in contracts (and has a history of fucking over it’s retirees) is having a problem with players walking away from the game.

Is there any other sport like American football where the fans and pundits feel like the players owe them something? And said fans/pundit industry feel they have a divine right to dictate behavioral standards to the players?

You have talked me off a ledge as a Lakers fan sir, thank you.

Pro-Tip: If you want to increase traffic, don’t call it an Oakland Athletics blog. Say it’s a very early blog about the 2022 Yankees.

The result of the Neymar Sweepstakes could very well determine the next half-decade of European soccer.

“Just what I always wanted… My own little foul ball… I will name him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him…”

Tired of all these primadonnas complaining about not getting to play with what they want. Well boohoo snowflake, there are millions of people who would gladly take your place and play for nothing. What happened to being a MAN and playing football in nothing but a leather shell? That’s real FOOTBALL. You go out there…

Dang, that sucks. He can have my ACL if that would help. I’m definitely not using it.

In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks spends four years on an island....alone. When he returns to civilization, his estranged wife notes “We got a football team now.”

Exactly! There’s a whole damn movie starring a two-time Oscar winner called ‘Remember the Titans’ and still people can’t

Right but I’m assuming the fortunes of Ifflewick Town FC or Dagsblood and Eelbane United don’t generally impact on who Manchester City can add from year to year. 

I’m very curious about what people describing this stuff as faceless/sell-out pop think the songs on the radio actually sound like these days.