You’re correct, it threw me through such a loop that I looked it up. The ‘N’ and ‘A’ stand for National and American League respectively.

Thanks for pointing out the excellent Haisley reporting “uh maybe other people get passed, I don’t know, what am I an expert?”

Something routinely forgotten by everyone is bullets don’t disappear they still need to land somewhere.

I’m glad my second hand translation of your supremely helpful comment turned out to be accurate. Thanks for a supremely enlightening post about how the law works outside of the USA!

Wear a fucking helmet.

In short, because that’s how the Brazilian justice system works. The letter of the law is significantly more important, as such a sentence hasn’t been handed down in his case and he has not begun to serve time for conviction due to the pending appeal. The reason of the appeal is meaningless, until the appeal is…

Unlike, MJ I’ve grown to appreciate Tiger more in his late stage. Then again, I was born into D.C. sports fandom so everything I say should be taken with the largest grain of salt.

This is a bad take.

The documentary, currently on Netflix, does a great job of giving a sense of who Lazarus is personality wise as well as giving a feel for the race and those who run it. After watching it I’ve become fascinated with the race, so any new article, like this one, is an insta-read.

I assume you love Vince Carter for a similar reason

The article provides context, he was joking. http://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-world-baseball-classic-leyland-arenado-20170322-story.html

If you read the article and get the context, it’s pretty obvious he’s joking. “So, after the U.S. won consecutive elimination games to advance to Wednesday’s championship game, Leyland allowed himself a smile as he opened a pregame news conference.

I don’t disagree, it wasn’t a perfect metaphor

To me this “debate” is similar to the Miggy vs. Mike Trout for AL MVP when Miggy won the Triple Crown, sure Trout may have been better at defense and base running, but Miggy won a GOD DAMN TRIPLE CROWN.

Best part : Drew’s refusal to touch anyone

Dirk has a 5% lower usage rate, averages 1.2 more boards per game, and plays the 4 or 5 consistently whereas Melo has insisted on playing the 3. The comparison would be more apt if Melo played the 4 at a consistent level and we could compare slightly more assists to slightly more rebounds.

Fact of the matter is Melo…

I think ball stopping is the entire reason for the selfish reputation, when you have a player who averages 3.2 assists, and has a usage rate of 31.7% the picture painted is someone who gets the ball a third of the time and then never passes. It’s not the scoring that sinks his reputation, it’s the lack of play…

Irrelevant in sentiment but worth noting : Steve Nash and Sami Zayn are Canadian citizens. While I agree with their sentiments, they stick out when the other contributors of the piece are Americans. This is pedantic and stupid, I know but full clarity should always be the goal.

“ Jozy Altidore (and the mostly American-born MLSers) were perpetually criticized for not working hard enough under Klinsmann.”

I have a higher opinion of Arena as a coach than you do, but he has been actively coaching pretty successfully for the past 10 years and has improved as a coach in that span. Ultimately to succeed in the short term, which Arena would be a short term higher, the USMNT need someone who can articulate and implement a…