I need an explainer on how the Nats publicizing their offer amounts to collusion.

I think you’re coming in too hot on Schilling’s HOF case. He has no reason to get in ahead of Mussina, so I don’t think you can even get into “absurd” until Mussina is in. Further, I don’t know, I think of Schilling as a little bit of a compiler -- his WAR is top tier but it drops significantly when you look at a…

Gronk saying “I did sucky” is probably the most endearing I’ve found any Patriots player in the last 15 years.

It’s less weird when you conisder Jerry Reinsdorf was on the committee

I feel like you can’t talk about protein without talking about the other macronutrients. For example, if you’re a 250 pound guy, you probably need a diet of at LEAST 3,000 calories for maintenance. If you get 90 grams of protein a day, that’s about 12% of your calories. That’s a LOT of fats and carbs you’re gonna have…

I think that in the course of making an important point, this article edges up to some bad points. For example:

Redford knows a lot about a lot of different shit, I love it

Man, I just want to take this as a positive. The Chiefs cut a top 5 RB almost immediately after they saw the tape. That’s good. That’s progress. Shitting on them because they knew a tape existed, but didn’t do anything because they were unable to see it? Come on

But that’s sort of how the world works. We use comparative assessments to measure things. We determine how egregious conduct is by reference to similar conduct. It seems like this ISN’T as bad as what Ray Rice did. I don’t think that’s the same thing as saying what Hunt did isn’t bad at all or isn’t so bad. But maybe…

I cannot figure out if Kragthorpe is saying Dameyune hit him, or if he doesn’t know who hit him.

Seemed weird for the Warriors to suspend Draymond. You would think that (essentially) siding with Durant in public would only add fuel to the fire. Calling a teammate a bitch seems like a weird line in the sand. I know Burneko says you shouldn’t call your “coworker” a bitch, but I mean, you wouldn’t slap your coworker…

I think we agree (around here, at least) that Bell’s holdout is morally justified. But, whether it turns out to have been a good idea will be, as Tom points out, a matter of retrospect. I think Connor’s gaudy numbers this year will have teams reconsidering the extent to which Bell’s production was system-related (the…

In defense of No Homo... Isn’t it really just the male equivalent of “That’s what she said”? That is, an otherwise benign way of pointing out that a phrase could be taken sexually. I’m not sure it’s ever used as a serious way of saying: “I’m legitimately concerned that you might think I’m gay, and it’s very important…

It’s interesting that over time this protest has been recast as players vs. ownership. When it started (and now, I suppose), it was never a protest of anything the owners had done. It had nothing to do with them. It had nothing to do with football. But ownership’s (tenuous?) belief that the protests were costing them…

Muphry’s Law at the top of the last paragraph Laura

How is it your main argument if you don’t actually know how MJ performed in these situations?

Prison stuff gets weird on this site. The embracement of liberal ideals seems to stop short of prison reform and/or abolition of the death penalty, at least among the commenters. Whenever someone has committed a serious crime, the comments are mostly about wishing death or prison rape on them.

What are Jones and Ramsey on about? They’re 7 days removed from giving up 40 to the Cowboys. Obviously the offense sucks, but this hardly seems like the type of situation where the disparity between offense and defense is big enough to breed contempt. Hell, giving up 20 points and 250-some yards to a bad Texans’…

Robert seems like he might be an idiot. Like, he wore pajamas when he was a kid, then at some point he stopped, and he has interpreted this as a change in society somehow. Instead of he just grew up. WHEN DID SOCIETY STOP DRINKING JUICEBOXES!?

I think Gray started game 161 against the Nationals. The Rockies won the next game to remain tied with the Dodgers.