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  1. Tartan

    Who is the 2017 Red Sox MVP?

    Baseball is becoming a game of strikeouts vs. home runs. A pitcher as good as Sale at getting K's and not giving up home runs ought to be at the forefront of league MVP discussion, not fighting for a seat at the table. The way the game is played now, I think he contributes more value than anyone...
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    Shank aka CHB calls out David Price calling out Eck

    I'm sure they all eat too much avocado toast and have loads of participation trophies too. Shaughnessy blows shit up like this out of nothing as a matter of course. Price does come off as an immature asshole. Farrell does come off here as a questionable leader. But then, Shaughnessy loves to...
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    David Ortiz will retire at end of 2016 season.

    I was 17 when they won in 2004. Getting to share that with my dad and my grandparents, who had gone so much longer without seeing them win, was one of the best moments in my life. This year I weathered the worst three month stretch of my life, losing my grandmother suddenly, then watching my mom...
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    I don't believe any show is above criticism but a driveby "by the way the Fargo show sucks, anyway..." is lazy and fucking annoying. I'd rather he write an article explaining why he hates Fargo. That might be an interesting read.
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    That came off like he was trying way too hard to either establish his own style or to imitate someone else's. Also, he thinks the Fargo show sucks. Between that and his piece for Grantland calling season 1 of Parks and Rec its best season, I don't think he can be trusted on anything.
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    Early season bullpen thread

    Given his age I'd be surprised if Koji ever throws more than one inning this season. I know that the pitch count is what really matters, but I imagine Ferrell will view 9-pitch innings from Koji as more bullets for later in the season, rather than as a reason to trot him out for a second inning...
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    Anderson Espinoza

    Not until Espinoza turns 18.
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    Antwaan Randle El regrets playing football, says game may disappear

    My dad played football in high school. He fucking hated it, mainly because his coach was a piece of shit who frothed at the mouth through practice and forced kids to play through injuries. There wasn't anything inherent to football that was positive to my dad, nothing that outweighed having a...
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    Joe Posnanski: Lord of Lists

    His latest anti-replay article. He seems to churn them out regularly. At this point, Joe's stance on replay is pretty clear: he doesn't like it because it slows the game down and focuses so heavily on minutiae that it detracts from the experience for him. I don't agree but it's his take, and...
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    NCAA Tournament Friday Game Thread

      Wasn't there a legit push for something like this in the late 80s, and it was silenced by the Princeton-Georgetown near upset?   Anyhow, I imagine simply reaching the tourney is such a big deal for a lot of 16 seeds that getting their asses inevitably kicked is worth it to them. And even...
  11. Tartan

    Grantland

    Yeah, you are right. Somehow it made more sense to me at 1:30 am. That's what I get for trying to decipher analogies about merkins and shaved genitalia at that hour.
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    Grantland

    The ending is no a non-sequitur; it's a reference to earlier in the article when it mentioned that the Egyptians pioneered the art of completely shaving one's pubes, It ties in nicely to the ending quote about shaving one's pubes completely to wear a merkin. Not the most elegant ending, but as...
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    The Nation's Tears: Pink Stripes

      You all are overthinking this. Setting up a camera to record some potentially entertaining shit and then sharing it with the world is easier than breathing these days. That means it's going to happen. They'd have been doing it during the Battle of Bull Run picnics back in 1861 if the...
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    The Game Ball Thread: Week 14 at the Chargers

          Twitter to the rescue.
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    Thanksgiving, Red Sox Style: Your Biggest Single SoxGasm Moment

    Damon's game 7 slam is one of the few sports moments that made me nearly black out in happiness. It was the coup de gras of that series. There were so many joyful moments from that postseason but that was the series knockout punch. Or at least the kidney shot that rendered the Yankees useless...
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    Roger G's Wheel of Justice

    Sometimes effects override intent. That what Peterson did falls under a more palatable sphere of behavior to a large percentage of the population doesn't matter jack shit to me when the end result is a 4-year old with open cuts from being beaten with a stick by a grown man. AP might not be as...
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    Roger G's Wheel of Justice

    Fuck 'em both? Dwyer's deed is worse in both the injuries caused and the malice behind the act, but I'm in no hurry to downplay a 217 pound man beating a four year old bloody with a stick because he felt he was doing the right thing. Plenty of people have come forward supporting Peterson, or at...
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    Roger G's Wheel of Justice

    You have a serious thing for false dichotomies.   Edit: One liners don't add much to the conversation, so how about this: you have made it clear that you think Goodell is a good commish. You cite the popularity and financial state of the league under his watch as proof. That's legit.   But what...
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    Roger G's Wheel of Justice

      Goodell being good at making money for the league is not mutually exclusive from him fucking up other aspects of his job. Football should be enjoyable. Goodell being a piece of shit hampers my enjoyment of NFL football. It stands to reason that someone can be enough of a piece of shit that it...
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    The Ray Rice Debacle

    Yep. If someone is that committed to rationalizing and justifying domestic abuse, they're not going to be argued out of it by someone else.
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