Fortunately, even as sourcing the immature goose feathers has grown a little more complicated lately, my line of “Al Franken Pat Down Gloves” has not only survived the years, for some reason they seem to be thriving even more now, and nary a peep from Mr. Franken’s attorneys!

The weird thing about Rovell is that he’s basically the sports take equivalent of a male mosquito: He makes you generally annoyed, but in a way that is fleeting and doesn’t actually do you any harm. You might shoo him away, but you can also ignore him and never worry about having a bite later on. Everyone gets so up…

He has a right to live as a free man and nothing more. He is not owed a baseball career. He is not entitled to a baseball career. It is possible for a top athletic talent to not pursue his/her dream of becoming a professional athlete and still have a happy life. Nothing is being unfairly denied him here; there are…

Yeah, and if I wanted to be a dick about it I’d say “people who judge other people solely on the things they’re interested in are small-minded, arrogant, and lazy, and nobody likes them quite as much as they think.”

This seems like a weird place to judge people based on their interests.

Man, JR’s look in the GIF is straight up “Maybe Dad’s just gonna be sad about the car being totaled, and then grateful that I didn’t get hurt in the accident. ... Yeah I need to pack some stuff and run away from home tonight.”

Yeah I’m with you there. I have photos of myself where the collar rides up so high it looks like a hood folded back. Shirt makers can go fuck themselves, generally.

You guys are a bunch of donkeys.

Right. Bartlet drops the First Commandment at the end of the Pilot during the meeting between Toby, Josh, Mary Marsh and Al Caldwell. The flashbacks happen during the two “In the Shadow of Two Gunmen” episodes to start Season 2, the Bartlet take-down of not-Laura-Schlessinger happens during “The Midterms” right after…

That’s not even a little bit Episode 1, but whatever.

And yet, to quote the immortal Dude, “that’s just, like, your opinion man.” There isn’t a material difference between showing the towers, the body of a dead soldier in a story about a war and showing the (technically still-living) body of an athlete - particularly when the story is about exactly what is happening on…

The story involves a lawsuit that quite pointedly describes how the player in question was left to lie on the floor for four minutes without proper attention. The screenshot captures that image and the general malaise surrounding him in vivid detail. That’s what journalism is, and your sensitivities don’t dictate…

This is fun, it’s like we got two versions of the joke: The premium version for people who can interpret humor, and the basic version for those who’d rather not pay extra.

I’m admittedly more of a dabbler whose interest in NASCAR comes and goes. That said, I wonder if all three circuits (or at least Monster and Xfinity) would benefit from borrowing golf’s model and having four or five “majors” scattered throughout the season. I know for die-hards there are certain races beyond Daytona…

I think at the very least we can’t base his (or any other horse’s) chance of winning at Pimlico or Belmont on their performances at the Derby. 20 is already too many horses, and when you add the Godawful conditions to the traffic jam that swallowed up all but like three challengers at the start, you really can’t get a…

That is how it reads if you, y’know, understand how to read. The sentence pretty clearly makes the case that she’s very smart, and she’s being taught by someone who’s very smart, and the game of poker is almost entirely about the space between your ears - whether its the psychology of the tell, or the calculation of…

Dude’s got alopecia. Nice work.

Didn’t expect IndyCar to be the next sports league to experiment with live streaming.

This is generally excellent, but I do have to quibble here:

If you had spent more time thinking about your point than rifling through your previous Word-a-Day calendar pages in order to sound erudite, you might have reached some kind of conclusion there. You also might not have misused “deterministic.” Either way, your faux-reasonable sarcasm voice is tripping you up, because…