No, you didn’t. Not if you needed someone to explain the narrow sense in which you were correct.

I’ve always thought Bryan Adams must be the luckiest man in the music industry. I mean, really: An entire summer of 69?

I’m gonna star you just for the Reuschel jersey, assuming it’s orange and black.

This comment needs many, many more stars.

Needz moar stars.

But if you were referring to the Yankees by their city name, you would say “New York is unreal right now.” Which is a perfect parallel to “Barca is unreal right now.”

Yes.

And that’s British English, not American English. In American English, you treat the verb’s precedent as the singular or plural that it actually is (in most cases).

I like that Deadspin gives you wide latitude to leave such a comment.

if it’s grey and drizzly and shitty for a day

Leave ’em alone, you guys. They built a technological masterpiece.

This this this this this.

Sarah Kwak of Sports Illustrated

I’d be shocked if you couldn’t learn to play the piano that well. Ben Folds isn’t that good — he’s only a moderately talented technician, and his ear is pedestrian.

Both examples here (this reply, and the one offered to me directly) seem to presuppose that the podcast is being offered as a substitute for the written words you’re used to. They’re not — they’re being offered in addition to the written content.

This is like asking “What is the rationale for radio broadcasting? In what way is it better than a newspaper?” It’s not necessarily better; it’s a different thing.

Dad’s ship. =(

No, you’re missing my point. Granted, SLG is a better measure of overall power; I was trying to cut a corner there. So for the sake of the argument, let’s include Jeter and the stacks of doubles on the back of his card — but that only gets us to four shortstops with any real power out of 28 starters (in 1997). As far…

Jeter: Only hit more than 20 HRs three times in his career, and those seasons were spread across a six-year time span early on (1999-2004). Hardly a “solid power-hitting shortstop.”

OK, that’s one. Let me know when we get to “not rare.”