One of the reeasons why people are turning against the NFL is because there’s too many interruptions in the action and it’s getting harder to watch. Endless video reviews of catches is as detrimental to the pacing of a football game as is endless bullpen moves

MLB’s inability to figure out how to market it’s stars is criminal. If there’s any hope it’s that a lot of the younger players are really charismatic and play for some of th biggest teams in the sport

We don’t know that, all we know is the most common complaint against the sport is pacing and how it makes the game seem boring. I also say this as a fan but I find that true too- how hard is it for pitchers and batters to not putz around in between pitches? Games used to fly back in the day because nobody took their…

We don’t really know that, though. We just know that the biggest complaint against the sport is pacing and that people are more into basketball in part because there’s always something goi

Nothing stops a game’s momentum more than the bringing in of the left-handed relief specialist to pitch to just one batter in the late innings

It’s about how fast the games move, and, yes, if the game moves quickly, the games will take less time to play. I’m not sure if it’ll bring in all the Millenials but I think even the most die hard fans will admit that watching a pitcher stare at a catcher for a minute before throwing a pitch can be difficult to sit…

It’s not really about how long the games take as much as the pace of the games. If a game lasted over three hours but was played at a quick pace, people would be okay. It’s all those moments when it takes five minutes for a pitcher to pitch to just one batter because both the pitcher and hitter take too long to get…

Seriously, though- why will putting pitchers on a pitch clock be so upsetting to pitchers? Is the ten to thirty seconds they claim they need to stare even more intently at the catcher that big of a deal? Will all of their .ERA’s climb skyward because of this?

If you notice, it’s not even a real thing as much as a fund-raising ploy. Because that’s how low the our democratic system has gone

Trump really hates Game of Thrones hot takes so you never know

“Can you remind me which ethnic group he was referring to again?”

Trump’s gotten me so paranoid about things that I’m fairly convinced that he somehow managed to somehow buy off the doctor and get him to lie about his health. 

You missed the best part of today’s hearing with the DHS Kirstjen Nielsen- lest she admit that Trump said something racist during last week’s meeting, when asked during the meeting if Norway was full of white people, she said she wasn’t sure

The goal seems to be to get that second wild card spot and then let Bumgarner do his thing to get them into the NLDS. From there, it’s just conjuring whatever pixie dust they use to get them into the World Series again

#evenyearmagic

Tom Haveford got a little too handsy with it

Says the guy who was accused of groping people when he ran for Governor of California

I think his point was that rock music was driven by a lot of angry or somewhat angry white males and that they’re all listening to rap music now. As a result, rock music has suffered because all the kids who would have started rock bands aren’t listening to rock music anymore. 

I dunno, Lincoln did it. 

I always felt that Grantland (and the Ringer) were and are great sites but you could always tell when Simmons was involved and when he wasn’t and the sites always suffered when he’d show up to do his Simmons thing. The site would feature all these great, thoughtful, and well-written pieces about any number of…