You mean the phantom roughing the passer.

‘Dying Season’ - Heathen

The great Irish Bluesman, Rory Gallagher.

“He can do stuff that Chris Paul and Derrick Rose can’t.”

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We all face agonizing decisions in our careers. Just today, my boss told me to either get off Deadspin or find another job.

Im gonna read it like only a comma is missing after the first one

HOLD UP HOLD UP!

Well, it happened. The college football playoff committee had their Notre Dame television show that they wrote the rules to make inevitable. Now it’s time to rework those rules and create at least an eight-team playoff. Let all the Power 5 conference champions in, throw a bone to whatever the highest ranked conference…

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Mazeroski is the perfect example of the point in the main post about the definition of fame and telling a story. Yes, Mazeroski was not a great hitter (his career OPS+ is below 100), but he was the best defensive secondbaseman of his generation and may be the best defensive 2B of all time (he’s the career leader in…

This is all making me feel terrible for Baines, a very good player I would generally have wanted on my team and who never asked to be the poster boy for HoF vote fuckups.

I think you have a point in general but Harper could not have gotten 10/$300M 3 years ago. Trout only got 6/$144.5 at around the same time. Many players would do better selling out arbitration and FA years for guaranteed money sooner, and hindsight is 20:20, but I think Harper is going to come out ahead on this one.

[extremely Gil Scott-Heron voice]

One of Jamie Moyer’s rookie year teammates was Gary Matthews Sr.

No. Your soul is removed when you become a prosecutor.

No, you fix this by ending the suppression of young players’ contracts. If the teams have to pay them like a veteran then they’re less likely to trade proven pieces. And as a corollary, you get fewer trades that consolidate power, and parity rises.

Hm. Could ‘Good Learner” mean white, and ‘Coachable’ mean....not a good learner?

Would be a real kick to start one and then switch to the other.

You’re doing the Lord’s work, Samer. This one goes out to you.