The joke is that I got the name watching the A’s in Spring Training in 2000. Velarde is one of the guys baseball writers were referring to when they talked about “journeyman middle infielders packing on muscle”. My friend and I couldn’t help joking about how Velarde’s pants were skin tight and he had glutes that would…

Misty Hyman agrees.

Tug of War Dream Team?

You mean like a “hats and noise makers” kind of party?

Most Entertaining Manager in the game: Lou Pinella

Heard it directly from this guy, who knows what he’s talking about.

And here’s Leonidas’ dick and balls meeting Draymond Green.

For those wondering how Leonidas and his contemporaries were able to run & wrestle with their junk hanging out, they didn’t. Scholars suspect that ancient Greek athletes were able to control their cremaster muscle, a vestigial muscle that retracts the junk into the body. Since summer in Greece can be hot, competing…

Soccer has too much soccer. Teams can be in multiple leagues at once, players can be on multiple teams at once (not including their national teams to which they may not even be ethnically linked), and some games don’t even count but are still a big deal. So confusing for American sports brains.

+1 hop

They don’t shoot centaurs, do they?

I can’t tell if that’s a Coors Light tallboy, or if Costas makes a 12 ouncer look like one.

At this point, I’m just glad they resorted to a sensible solution like bolt cutters, instead of explosives, or ramming a truck into it, or ramming a truck full of explosives into it.

We should also remember Avery Brundage, the role model for the petty assholes who run the IOC today.

You can pretty much forget about the country club kids winning this “tournament”. You can also scratch super-twitchy Bubba Watson from the medal stand, though his twitter complaints will be fun. My money is on golfers from tropical countries who are used to winning tournaments on fresh, untested courses and run by…

This is so much better than Jimmy Connors’ first pitch, which was an abortion.

You know that wine barrels have bungholes, right?

After two years you didn’t learn not to call your fraternity a frat? Do you call your country a cunt?

There really does need to be a comparison, like the average number of fecal coliforms per 100 words of a Trump speech.

It was just as petty as it looks. They were pissed at Ichiro for not taking more pitches as a leadoff hitter, allowing the hitters lower in the order to see more pitches and add to the pitch count. As though that was going to matter to Richie Sexson, Jose Vidro, Milton Bradley and Chone Figgins.