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The Wizards could trade Alex Ovechkin for LeBron and kill two Wilbon birds with one non sequitur.

if you don’t like ovi, you don’t like hockey. simple as that.

I, personally, can’t afford the aluminum tariffs that come along with burning down the White House.

Get fucked, Wilbon.

I like it more now.

This reminded me of a passage from ump Bruce Weber’s book when he was asked what the magic word is to eject a player or manager. He goes “The magic word is ‘You...’”

Why not both?

That University of West Virginia education!

It’s a really awkward, unfortunate length. Kind of like her marriage.

I think he got his “lowest levels since WWII” from a fact about the Navy having the fewest ships/sailors (which is true! automation and a changing naval landscape and shit requires less ships and sailors! I know, because I helped design one!), and somehow spun that into “the army” and this being a bad thing. All the

So much LOL here. But your last three, short sentences....

Yup. The only crime here was filming in portrait.

I was dreaming of a small meteor striking the ring and wiping them both out, but lighting rig falling would suffice.

Confoundingly

If you are old enough and lucky enough to remember The National sports daily newspaper’s glorious one-year run, this is especially sad news.

Hello, and welcome to earth ☺we’re glad you decided to visit. Seeing the above confusion I hope a brief description of what a public figure is, and what sports are, should probably easy your culture shock. On this planet beings exchange items, deemed valuable for whatever reason, via a proxy system called currency. We

Ok, I have you beat. 7th Grade. I played first base. Our starting pitcher got arrested on the mound while warming up for pulling the fire alarm at school earlier in the day. Everyone knew he did it because he always did stuff like that. So he is literally cuffed on the mound and taken downtown. Well by the 4th inning

Umpire injury truther: you can’t be hit by a foul tip. This is a foul ball.

There are two things about Sanders’ rhetoric lately that are really frustrating me and both center around the fact that he has openly talked about not being a Democrat and only running as a Democrat because it allows him to reach a broader base than running as an independent:

The really pathetic part of this whole thing is Sanders (and his supporters) railing against Clinton for taking soft money, when he’s doing the essentially the same thing by only using the Democratic party when it’s most beneficial to him as a politician. He could afford to run independently for Senator from Vermont,