"But the Lord works in mysterious ways..." is always the default answer when He does something evil because clearly we just don't understand His thinking. Yet, whenever something good happens it's clear as day that He loves us because apparently sometimes we do knows His intentions.

I'm not religious, but I sometimes might do things during a sporting event that could be construed as superstitious. I think that it's all about focusing on enacting some silly ritual so that my brain worries less about the outcome of an event over which I have no control, rather than belief in intervention by an…

The general pundit narrative seems to be that Nadal's best game usually beats Federer's best (maybe a draw on grass), but Nadal's style is much more physically punishing. If this is true, then Nadal should have better per tournament results, but due to Nadal missing or crashing out of tournaments due to injury,…

Here's a link with most of them going back to 1920. Looking like fools seems to be the general trend.

"Your vote doesn't start or end WARS."

I prefer the Star Spangled Banner because it's so unique. The moment may be a historical footnote today, but the emotion that it inspired from Francis Scott Key was wonderful and gives it real meaning. America the Beautiful is a fine song, but it would be such a generic national anthem. I find national anthems that…

I'm from Mass and I know the locations of about 5 Papa Gino's within about 15 minutes of me, but I don't know the location of a single Dominos. That may speak more to a discrepancy in quality, though, rather than their relative ubiquity.

As a lifelong hockey fan, I also enjoyed it. It's one thing for two players to start angrily punching each other in the spur of the moment, but staged fights and wasted roster spots on enforcers are just asinine. And I wouldn't buy the increased television ratings argument for a second.

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Yes. Yes. Absolutely yes.

Pedmans

♫ Jadeveon's pappy woke him up one midnight

This may have been a strike, but if Carlos keeps throwing 57 mph pitches he'll be pitching in a new town very soon.

Aw shucks. Perhaps when my jokes become more consistent.

I agree that there is no good formula for figuring this out, which is why this is all just speculation. As for your point about counting Rose's triple A stats, I did not mean to suggest that counting AAA would be valid. My point was that the NPB is better than a AAA league but likely worse than MLB, so an argument can…

I intentionally oversimplified because the whole point of this discussion is whether or not Ichiro could have come close to reaching Rose's hit record if he had played nearly his entire career in MLB, not who was the better player. I acknowledge that Ichiro has a lower OPS and slugging in MLB, but that's beside the…