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As you may recall if you’ve read the shoddily researched book Eight Men Out, or seen the well-done John Sayles movie based on it Read more

Vina’s hairdo isn’t exactly a safe play though Read more

Fuck, this is good. +1 Read more

Hey now, no need to be all ... huffy Read more

Actually, about the only dissimilarity is the team doctor doesn’t have a shotgun. Read more

What’s this “yeah, look at me, I’m still running, my ears are pricked up,” stuff. Act like you’ve been there before, horse. Read more

Today’s winner of That Guy Read more

Still good. Any use of “detachable” for that organ gets King Missile. Read more

So worth it. +1 Read more

Obligatory:

Doesn’t the Jockey Club limit the number of words in a horse’s name or something like that?

But in any case, yeah, shows the waning institutional familiarity with turfwriting. Read more

That’s also a more data-driven point. I dunno. I thought I had something smart to offer there.

That said, with the number of starting QBs for the Browns and, a lesser degree, the Bears being a running joke, I’m not sure that rolling on that pick every year gets you anywhere faster. But the roulette wheel has no memory… Read more

I think I’ll just back away from this. There’s a rational thought somewhere in here, but I blew the execution. Read more

I suppose I just said a very simple thing in a very complicated way. Alright. Read more

You’re right. I mean, you can’t ignore a quarterbacking need altogether in the draft. Washington makes a short-term play through the draft channel, and it craps out; the Chiefs make a short-term play through free agency and the same result. Read more

My hot-take belief is that the value provided by one-of-a-kind quarterbacks like Manning, Brady et al. isn’t really in whatever they throw for or how they manage a game, it’s that they take out the fatal attraction so many teams have with winning a draft on a single pick, or a pick at a skill position. It’s true that… Read more

I haven’t lived in Boston, so I’ll take your word for that, but I think Washington D.C. is a uniquely segregated city as well. It wasn’t just that Northwest was the white part of town, there wouldn’t be any white people east of 14th street. I know things have changed (i.e.: gentrified, which means the white district… Read more

Hope floats. So does poop. Read more

False start or illegal hands to the face? Read more