Everyone claims they want to watch, say, the old Bears defenses but the NFL would never have gotten close to its current level of popularity if the entire league were composed of bone crushing NFC North and honorary NFC North Parcells/Belichick Giants bloodbaths

In a world where the Fyre Festival rofl catastrophe actually happened, McMahon could probably raise ten billion dollars in seed money for Neo XFL just by uttering the words “let’s just do it and be legends”, since there has never been a line more appropriate to McMahon

Ps. Thank you so much for doing this interview. The Fate of Rome is an instant classic, and immediately got a place with Bill McNeill’s Plagues and JR McNeill’s Mosquito Empires on my Epidemiological History Shelf

“Harper shifts the point of greatest transition from the fifth century, the traditional ending date for the Roman Empire (476 is the best-known year), to the sixth, well after the formal political structures had fallen. For Harper, the real shift from the Empire to what followed wasn’t a matter of emperors, provincial…

Man, that’s so traditional Jim Nantz has an erection

“Taxpayer-funded herpes”...isn’t that basically the big Navy procurement scandal starring (no joke) Fat Leonard?

Real glehd you chimed in wid dat Bahb

“And what’s next for the Marlins?”

Wait are you kidding me, or are you a Russian bot, because you’ve clearly never heard of either man. Darin Erstad is principally known for having been a college football punter

This is a hilariously silly response. If the fans were in charge, David Eckstein and, like, Darin Erstad would be in the Hall

The last time a Czech got let down so bad by a Frenchman, Hitler took the Sudetenland

The MLB didn’t want to ban *anything* after 1994's debacle, even though in 1998 they had strong reason to believe McGuire and Sosa were juicing

The end of election night in 2016

Floyd Jr: “three dozen spritzers and cocaine?!”

I literally said in the first fucking post that the team owners, the management, the fans, the writers, and above all else the League loved steroid abuse as long as it could be obscured and plausibly denied. THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD THIS APPROACH FOR ALL FUCKING PERFORMANCE ENHANCING SUBSTANCES AND INDEED OUTRIGHT…

What made it fucking infuriating is on top of all of his other bullshit, he was a midget, while in Goldfinger Oddjob is famously a six plus footer North Korean wrestler built like an ox

No, unless I miss my mark, you hear that about the United States, because you’re an American

Incorrect legal history. The reason MLB didn’t think to explicitly ban use is because initially the substances used were covered by the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990, which amended the Controlled Substances Act; in other words, like Cocaine during the 70s and 80s, MLB assumed that because use and indeed…

A crucial difference is that while British trades unionists uniformly voted against Thatcher, a gigantic swathe of American private sector union members voted for Breitbart policies

This is good. Your other comment was dumb; for the nth time, including in multiple comments here, I don’t give a shit if they used PEDs