“There’s a sense of joy that pervades every Miller film, and the viewer can feel the reverence he has for the freedom and beauty of the outdoors. Not only are they thrilling sports films, they’re funny and they never take themselves too seriously.”

Yea but that’s cold, calm, and collected ruthlessness that don’t see in either a mob, or The Mob

I wouldn’t minimize them by calling them a mob. They knew perfectly well that coal was on the way out anyway, and more importantly that the British trades unions had way overreached during Callaghan’s tenure, which let the Iron Lady make her way into power first within the party and then in parliament.

Well they sure as hell aren’t beating UChicago at anything else...

It’s really not meant to be a soap box, I’ve been trying to understand why Bonds and Clemens are shut out — and it’s clearly a function of the players themselves and not anyone else

I like to say we won the first Heisman and have successfully avoided winning any ever since

No, it’s {PED users} versus {everyone else}

This comment hits harder, faster, and with more surprise than a Japanese torpedo boat squadron assaulting a Russian naval base

You don’t need to use Cobb while Landis’ plaque exists

+1 hilariously out-of-place Heisman in Ratner

Man you’re right, it’s a real Cinderella story

I meant accept the consequences, not exhibit self-awareness — after all they can’t exactly stage a military coup in Cooperstown

...I must be in a Star Trek episode where I encounter a planet lacking the conditional

“Ooo ‘87 STRIIIKE”

The Hall of Fame literally has a plaque for Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the man whose very existence permitted decades of apartheid in baseball, and whose death almost literally precipitated Rickey bringing Jackie into baseball

Were my posts written in Akkadian, Sumerian, or some other long extinct language of the Neo-Assyrian Empire? Or did you just skim the OP?

One of the clearest signs Rose must be the most incredibly shitty guy in real life is that no one’s seriously lobbied to overturn the ban, forget about the Hall

One thing you have to love about Halep is that, despite the hugely lucrative objectification of female tennis players (see, e.g., a certain former Russian player), she got a breast reduction so she could play better