“You’re with me, velour.”

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.*

Whatever floats your boat, man.

Sure, which is all well and good (there’s nothing that makes AP inherently better than any other stylebook; they’re all just efforts at consistency), but it’s silly to insist that there’s One True Way to achieve “Professionalism in Writing” when you don’t even know that there are professional writing standards that…

Forget it, Jake. It’s Las Vegas.

You’re grossly oversimplifying the matter. A lot of the reason that the “new stats” — many of which have been around for a long time — carry more credibility with the analysts is specifically because they correlate with success (however that’s being defined) better than the “old stats.”

There’s a name for this: Muphry’s Law.

Counterpoint:

Problem is, that’s not how the rulebook defines an error. It has to be a routine play, which this clearly wasn’t — it was behind Amarista, and Kemp had too far to go. And the rulebook (or maybe it’s the casebook) essentially tells scorers that if a batter puts the ball somewhere that creates a tough chance for a…

There’s still a few hours to go, but “absolutely off his cake” is a strong contender for Best Thing I’ll Read Today.

they won on what was charitably (for Matt Kemp and Alexi Amarista) scored as a walk-off double for Hunter Pence

Why are you telling me about it? I’m pointing out that the Warriors have been outdrawing that (rightly) well-regarded fan base since 2007-08, long before the Warriors started winning more games.

What’s up with the headline edit?

Lance Armstrong apparently told him, “Fucking Pereiro, you’re the dumbest guy in the world.”

#BlackBirdsMatter

The Atlanta Braves have axed Fredi González.