A lot of pitchers do in cold weather, to keep their arms loose.

I partially agree, if it was a tie game and he was trying for the winning run, or if he was trying to tie the game it might have been an exciting, ballsy decision, albeit with too slow of a runner to be making the decision. But a Good Baseball Man would preach that if there are 2 outs and you’re down by that many…

The wildcard being decided by a 1-game playoff is a complete travesty; it’s no better than a coin-flip in professional baseball and renders the 162 game regular season nearly meaningless and should be replaced with a 5-game series or abandoned entirely except not this year because my team might make it and I’m…

Plus the Twins have won 2 of 3 against NY this year.

RIP. I met Grant Hart a handful of times, worked on a project with him a few years ago, and saw him around Minneapolis record stores now and then. He was a fascinating, thoughtful, multitudinous whirlwind of a man. When you talked to him, there was no doubt who had the upper hand at all times, even if half of what he…

I hate this.

You could tell with how the medical staff was treating him on the field. They weren’t really testing or bending or poking and prodding anything, just asked him a couple questions, then all sat around with “Shit, this really sucks” faces for a couple minutes waiting for the cart to come out. The one doc even game him a…

With one exception, I have never seen a Packer fan wearing the jersey of a black player. That exception, of course, is Reggie White.

I actually watched a good bit of this match today, first time I’ve actually watched Kyrgios. He’s a fascinating presence on the court. It’s like watching the top jock all star athlete at your high school playing tennis in gym class for the first time; very little technique, seems to be mostly fucking around and…

The one where he’s walking out to the mound during an inning is remarkable.

I don’t see what’s so crazy about asking a guy who’s past performance isn’t worthy of a max contract to try to get better in order to justify a max contract. Yes, Glen Taylor is a clod, but he’s not wrong. Wiggins has been completely uneven, often frustrating, and occasionally brilliant, but he absolutely does have to…

/checks the NL West standings

This is 100% correct. I drove to Nebraska for it, expecting something cool and interesting because “Why not?”. But what I got was exactly how you described it: the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen.

I have zero opinions about the Colts, but can everyone chill out a little bit with the “Fuck [X] with [Y]” thing?

I’m in agreement with the idea that got around yesterday that somebody can luck into homering, but you can’t luck into dunking. Spread out through 7 billion people, homering would actually win out by a comfortable amount.

So, this is total back-of-envelope math, and someone else could figure it out much more precisely, but I used 2012 Joe Mauer as a quick sample, and it came out to an (extremely rough!) estimate of 93,030 feet, which = 17.6 miles.

(That seems high, because it averages to 574 feet per game. So maybe I F’d up. And also…

I hate shit statements like that so, so much.

Drew: Your Bartman take is bad and you should reconsider.

I want to own the world.

Best I’ve come up with is Christian Okoye.