My ugly 2-deep wall of eagerly awaited Sports Illustrateds, if I’m lucky, will sustain my brain after I can no longer figure out how to operate digital devices.

I don’t really know when this switch was flipped, but it is no longer important or good for a business/company to just make a profit. Somehow, someway, they have to make more than that, as there is always a way to make more, people and consequences be damned.

Ray, as always, bringing the goods. I hope you get another full-time gig soon, although I really look forward to your stuff here.

I’m impressed that Russel Wilson is being this aggressive early since history shows that he’s usually super-late to score.

I didn’t think I would every love anyone on this site as much as I do Tim Rogers. Luke Plunkett, you have just stolen my heart. Kaiserreich is the best. The level of detail is honestly staggering. Also a French blitzkrieg makes me giggle.

Jesus Christ. Throw all these grifters into a snake pit. 

I’m old enough and grew up in a place where this magazine was the best and only way to get decent national sports news. To see that get devoured by cost- and quality-cutting VC ghouls is a giant drag. I’m sure underpaid contract writers will be able to pick up the slack though. God knows I go to SBNation every day to…

How many stripes do you earn after six weeks? He barely earned his (real, dammit) stirrups.

+1 subtle change to the Kansas City Royal’s piping.

Not Paul Lukas!

This. The anticipation of being cut is way worse than getting cut cold turkey.

“Authentic Brand Groups” would be too obvious for a writers’ room.

This honestly makes me wonder: How do companies lay off their HR people? Who, like, hosts the meeting?

they should probably start the layoffs with their fucking HR department, because they sound hideous. 

Insane in the Ukraine
Insane in the brain!

You have ruined my libido. 

I’m confused.....

Display that Confederate heritage loudly and proudly; except when it doesn’t work for you.

some cautioned that Tayloe’s case could be a harbinger of more such lawsuits to come

Edward Dickinson Tayloe II