I know it seems kinda funny in the abstract but Ray Fosse has always come across a really decent dude (if not good baseball announcer) on A’s broadcasts, and he’s always been pretty torn up about how Rose derailed his career.

The draft system is collectively bargained. Take it up with the Players Association.

Yeah, I think statistically the problem with the knocks on Rose is that they all apply equally to Ichiro.

“But unless Ichiro collects 1,277 more major league hits (which, honestly, isn’t as outlandish as it superficially appears to be).”

Are.... you serious? Like, 80 percent of the world is like this. Name a country – India, much of China, South Africa, pretty much all of Southeast Asia, pretty much every island nation on Earth, Central America, a bunch of Africa, on and on and on. They all have these same problems.

She can certainly disagree with Maya Angelou. But she can’t disagree with Maya Angelou and say she’s disagreeing with white people.

Naw she was too busy going off on Time magazine and white people for claiming Muhammad Ali “belonged to everyone” even though the headline was quoting Maya Angelou.