You can do whatever you want, it’s a free country. You just look like a pedantic asshat when you take a pretty obvious joke and use it as a springboard to lecture people about pretty recent (and well-known) sports history.

So, just out of curiosity, how loud was the whooshing sound as the joke went over your head?

Either you’re pretending you don’t understand the difference between discussion and content to make a weakass point, or you’re actually really, really stupid. I can’t decide which is worse.

... and that concept has been reinforced by publications of all stripes for decades. Writers who write for free didn’t invent the idea, nor are they idiots who just assume their work is worthless. That idea is the default for most young and/or new writers for the first 5-10 years of their career, with some exceptions.…

Nearly perfect. VAR is probably a better analogue for the Designated Hitter than Jose Mourinho. But I’m also fine with shitting on Mourinho.

Easy tiger. Histrionically hating on Boston as the source of all sports-related misery may be a cottage industry around here, but at the same time, dude, Boston is racist as fuuuuuuuck.

God, your life seems hard. I hope you’ve been able to find an outlet for the stress. Maybe try quilting?

Dude’s got a 1989-Kansas-City-Royals-middle-reliever-with-giant-glasses-and-goofy-baseball-card-picture-ass name. That’s all I got. 

John Farrell had his adventures as well.

No, but dear God I wish it were. What a name.

Based on all of the Irish-whispered rumors in Boston about managers and NESN reporters, Hazel was likely relieved just to have a current or former Red Sox manager putting his dick AWAY for a change.

Yeah, I was pretty doubtful about her having a case before. Now I’m sure she doesn’t.

The key issue I heard yesterday was that there may not have been an appropriate warning after the shot was hit - if you’re unfamiliar, golfers often shout “fore!” if their shot appears bound to hit someone, and at a tournament that warning will also come from course workers (if you’re familiar on all this, I…

You honestly think reducing cars’ top speed from about 195 to about 185 is going to result in another NINETY MINUTES of race time? Please finish high school.

You literally just wrote “Competitive sport is pure meritocracy” and “If a club goes broke it dies,” in the same post. C’mon now.

When Scunthorpe United gets relegated to League 2 and has 500 fans show up for its games, it can still afford to travel to basically anywhere in England, since the country is effectively the size of California and has half-decent infrastructure.

Counterpoint: This was two chickenshit players who preferred to wait for a mistake rather than show some initiative, and telling people how to behave and how to enjoy tennis is the height of tennis douchebaggery, and part of the reason the sport’s relevance is waning. You’re not smarter than anybody because you watch…

I can tell you’re “with” black people by the way you tell them how to think, act and write.

Be a real fucking shame if somehow these two gentlemen suddenly found their email addresses had been signed up to receive a couple hundred daily e-newsletters from random unnecessary products and services. You’d just hate to see that happen ...