We’re coming toward the end of their worst season in recent memory, may as well do something to remind people of the more recent glories I figure.

He was on two World Series teams wasn’t he? Streak of 16 consecutive quality starts in 2012. Maybe not the most memorable but why not?

I don’t really take issue with people concerned for their livelihoods so long as they’re also taking time to denounce what he said. I mean the article shows that this kind of thing does have an impact on how much money they take home at the end of the day and its only natural to be concerned with that sort of thing.…

This is literally the plot of the Producers

Yeah, I sort of thought that might be the case. I dunno I feel in some ways like I’ve been quite fortunate to not have attended or worked at the kind of major university where this kind of thing could take place. Where I work now as a librarian we’re small enough and with little enough research output that I think…

I dunno, as a keeper myself I’ve never been that big a fan of Tim Howard. Obviously he’s among the best we’ve ever produced but that isn’t really saying all that much (see the big deal made over Brad Friedel keeping a shutout against Mexico during Korea/Japan), and I’ve often questioned how he handles himself under…

That’s kind of what I’m talking about. Like I don’t really believe anyone would subject themselves to the kind of scrutiny that comes with reporting this kind of thing if nothing had happened to them. That’s why these things go so badly under-reported. The idea that anyone would do this just for the sake of ruining…

I was gonna say, I don’t exactly remember the teams he played on as world beaters. But, honestly, maybe that does give him a certain level of insight about when to admit a team sucks.

I might be biased cause I picked them for one of my fantasy teams and they were my highest scoring player this week.

I think what’s so hard for me to understand is what they think they’re doing by keeping this guy on. Do they think they’re protecting the university’s reputation by saying “No of course we don’t have sexual predators on our faculty!” Cause at this rate everyone believes that he is and the evidence seems to bear it…

Right. I mean I realize that universities are not held to the same standard as the courts, nor should they be. But that said I do think “innocent until proven guilty” is an admirable basis for either, and I think its a tough tightrope to walk at times. Only a total sociopath would initiate something like this if they…

I dunno, as someone who works on a college campus this shit is tough. You want to believe people, but how do you do it in a way that also takes into account the fact that SOME people (not this guy I’m thinking) are actually innocent and our legal system is meant to treat them that way until proven otherwise. I dunno,…

Unfortunately all it takes is one high profile fuck up by Rolling Stone to forever prejudice ANY subsequent investigation

Exactly. Like, maybe that is normal for him and if it is, I have some fucking questions.

I mean the thing is, I legitimately believe that he maybe did just blurt it out in the heat of the moment. What I don’t believe are the people who can’t seem to understand that a person into whose mind THAT word might come into in such a moment is not normal. We’ve all had moments like that. I called a squirrel…

This guy was trying to tell me that like, a word is just a word and intent matters. Of course it does! If I’m writing an academic study of the different ways that people deploy the n word, I can probably write it out and people will understand that I don’t mean any harm and am actually trying to help. And yet, this is…

This is like a good sketch on a mid-tier sketch comedy show

Oh damn

Jaguars are deceptively good though, at least on defense.

What kills me is that there are people out there defending him by saying “Aw it’s just the heat of the moment!” As though being the sort of person who could summon up that word in the heat of the moment isn’t a sign that you’re racist. I had one person on Twitter trying to tell me both that it was the heat of the…