Yup. Chargers' injury situation made them my first thought, too.

With as much turnover as many programs have year over year, it's hard to fault them for scheduling some "pre-season games" against weak opponents before they get into their conference schedules. Every year, we see a few teams that turn out to be not anywhere close to as good as projected. Better to find this out…

The name "cluster luck" is unfortunate, because we're all taught to believe that luck has nothing to do with it. Both offense and defense make changes—some obvious, some subtle—to increase or decrease (respectively) the odds that hits will come in clusters once the first baserunner is aboard. This, we're told,…

"their" not "there" at the end of the transcription of JS's commentary.

Thug.

Perhaps Deadspin could be a leader here and stop covering the NFL.

Pretty good example of the nickname thing in "Top Gun" when Tom Cruise introduces himself as Maverick to Kelly McGillis, who responds "Did your mother not like you?"

Ted Leitner. He's a radio guy. Pretty sure the analyst is Bob Scanlan. When I lived there, the tv team was Dick Enberg (yep, THAT Dick Enberg) and Mark Grant. I had no reason to think that wasn't true until I saw this clip.