Please. Yankees, Cardinals, Mets, strangely enough Phillies, Blue Jays(very, very paranoid), Orioles, and then maybe Cubs.

But is says “shall be called a strike only (not inference)”

Yeah, but in context, Weiters has been crowding the batter zone all series. Happ hit him on a backswing. In the same inning as this, he interfered with a swing.

TBF the women’s institutional setup mirrors the issues with the men’s, it’s just that not enough soccer superpowers around the world give enough of a shit to take advantage. Which should be to their shame, I should add.

Great point. Sorry, I was referring to men only. But, obviously, women aren’t playing tackle football. Further, America is pretty progressive in terms of families supporting their daughters playing sports (especially soccer) whereas it appears that other countries are less so.

This is America’s larger problem. As above, so below.

It’s how the Yankees explained Lou Gerhig’s absence.

England has many things but it does not have a proper youth development system. What we have is a fuck tonne of players - literally every child in England - so we get around it enough to qualify but not around it enough to do particularly well when we get there. Chris Waddle and a few others have identical rants to…

Seriously. Youth development is mostly fucked by travel, because if you’re 12-13 and having to go 20-30 miles for training at an “academy” level side or 50-100 miles on a weekend for yet another fucking tournament because your parents live in the shitty sprawly exurbs like every fucking American parent, you’re going…

Opening up opportunities for investment rather than holding the top flight for ransom with expansion fees means more investment in free to play youth development.

I don’t know what that means but it sounds cool.

Magically, barring second-half comebacks from Honduras and Panama, the USMNT is still fine,

Oh god I so hope this is the opening volley in the labor battle that destroys the NFL

The following is an excerpt from my new screenplay, Hamilton’s Terrible, No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day.

Is it hilarious or sad that there’s more hand wringing over a simple protest gesture than there was after a player knocked his wife unconscious in an elevator and then dragged her down a hallway like a sack of trash?

How I would love to see the entire Cowboys roster take a knee.

“Just great form there, right off the crossbar but knocked it through. Excellent kick.” - Jay Feely

Whataboutism is strong, these days.

Gotta love the logic some are applying that because Rodrigue had some bad tweets back in the day, they think they’re off-setting penalties and they’ll just replay the down.

Yup, because refs never face violence in bigger leagues