Far more interesting post would be on reasons Portugal will roll over for Ghana. That's a bet worth taking.

I had no idea Tom Paine had been reborn — as a baseball stats guru. Freaking brilliant.

Inspired. If you come up with some clever/fake T-shirt designs, sign me up.

"Fairly obvious" fits the whole post, doesn't it? Sorry, this is one lazy ass piece of traffic trolling.

Excellent analysis.

This "deepest draft" bullshit must stop. Bigs turn also-rans into playoff teams. One, maybe two bigs, and this is a "deepest draft"? Horse hockey. Shooting guards and forwards, with everybody talking about the same three or four players.

Exactly. Not reliable. Water pump is potentially a "stranded" issue, if you don't notice the leak. And 2 days out of service? My econobox (Kia Soul) has yet to reach two days in 4 years.

"and once jokingly asking for the cat back." Verb tense issue. "asked."