The fact that Bryce Harper is barely scraping value using the most generous WAR/dollar calculation possible in his first year of an extremely long and expensive contract is not really a good sign for how good of a deal it is. He’s actually being paid to produce surplus WAR early on because the back-end is going to be…

For $30m, I definitely would expect a lot more than .253 BA/.485 slugging (playing half his games in a LHP friendly bandbox)/.850ish OPS while leading the league in Ks. With that money, I would expect Mike Trout/2019 Cody Bellinger/2000s Pujols and Miggy production — Bryce only has two seasons with a .900+ OPS— and…

Truth be told, 90% of why I might comment on a soccer story is so I can eventually make up some fictitious 4th division English team names. 

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. 

How in the hell do labs make good drug dogs? Every lab I’ve known would be distracted by every hot dog within a hundred yards. And donut. And every sandwich. Or french fry. or...

And yet not one single person, security otherwise, pays any mind at all to the actual injured dude.  Well, except for whoever was filming the debacle.  

“Behind every great man in a fight, is his girlfriend squawking like a crow with laryngitis.”

Yankees are 35-20 against teams above .500.  Astros are 41-26.  Dodgers are  39-26.  Sure they haven’t played as many teams above .500 as the other two teams have, but they are winning against those teams. 

Yeah but the Red Sox are, err, cute and scrappy and small market and oppressed or something! So it’s okay!

Yet they’re still tied with the Dodgers (both .649) for the best record in baseball, winning percentage wise. They’re doing something right.

Not sure if there's a Sox article coming so I'll just leave this here: The Boston Red Sox have by far the highest payroll in the majors and are a flaming pile of feces. To all the people in my childhood who whined and whined and WHINED about the Yankees buying championships, Fuck You. That is all. 

My friend, who is a Mets fan and lurks in the grays around here (as all Mets fans should), refuses to acknowledge that the Yankees have had uniquely bad luck this season. As a Yankee fan, I don’t expect anybody’s sympathy, but as far as statistical anomalies go, this has really been a hauntingly bad run. Was the new…

On the plus side, Rooney Mara gave the best performance in the best movie I’ve seen in the last decade (A Ghost Story).

He went to Harvard, can’t he just retire and go be a Neuroastrophysicist or something?

Let’s be clear - puking in a bathroom of a gas station 7/11 off the interstate after you just spent the last of your money on meth is rock bottom.

FitzMagic and now Linsanity? Harvard grads have it so tough in 2019.

Yeah, why the tone deafness on Solo? This is sort of like running an article suggesting that it would be a good idea for Ray Rice to be a player rep. at the next CBA meetings.

They seem to have some pretty outspoken people currently on the national team ? Of course if there is a need for someone to get violent at a family BBQ then I’m sure Hope and her husband will get a call. 

“...simply from its television contracts.”

Funny thing about sanders, he hated blocking backs.  The biggest reason he didn’t start at OSU over Thurman Thomas (?!?really, that’s your backfield and you didn’t win the big eight with Hart Lee Dykes?!?!??) was because he wouldn’t run in two back sets because it clogged his vision.  He needed space.  They changed…