I remember when he came up, I was 17 and still really in to baseball, and I thought, “This guy’s 27, and coming over from Japan? And he’s not a pitcher? Yeah, good luck.” Read more

I remember him coming to the league and thinking, all he does is hit singles. Then I saw him play live and was amazed at how smooth he was. All his movements were so compact and efficient he was. No wonder he lasted till his mid-40s.  Read more

“Trade me because I’m not resigning next year so you might as well get something for me.” Read more

It blows my mind that so many fans view trade requests as selfish on the part of the player. In fact it’s a very unselfish thing to do since they are telling the team “I’m not going to sign for you, so get what assets you can for me before I walk away for nothing” Read more

It is extremely funny for Bill Simmons, who almost literally burned Grantland down on his way out the door while throwing a public tantrum & leaving unemployed journalists in his wake, to criticize Anthony Davis for making a simple trade request in private. Read more

This isn’t about Anthony Davis seeking a trade. It’s about Anthony Davis seeking a trade to the Lakers when everyone knows the Celtics are entitled to his services. NO ONE DENIES THIS! Read more

Listen, Markazi is a HUGE fan of shows like Westworld. He loves pouring over little in episode easter eggs, googling references made in the show and pouring over the code of fictional websites all for little clues about the show. Read more

“I don’t really care if people like me or not” is the rally cry of a sociopath. As is getting so riled up about a generally innocuous question about a blatant and obvious COI. Read more

I’m just answering questions. That’s it. Read more

On a last-minute, spur of the moment type thing, I drove from Chicago (where I live) up to Milwaukee yesterday with two friends to go to this game. So glad that we did. When Giannis dunked on Boban the place went crazy. Read more

Yeah, not even close to the same. Giannis backs down Simmons and smashes it in his face. Simmons take a ball out of the air while Giannis isn’t even looking. Read more

A lot of the reactions from the opposing players in these highlights look like outtakes from some 1980s-90s commercial where the opposing players are stunned that the old man/robot/woman in a housecoat/man in a dinosaur costume is actually Clyde Drexler/Larry Johnson/Dikembe Mutumbo dunking on them. Read more

This was my son’s first NBA game and my first in a decade with good seats. It was a full-on Giannis/Embiid show! The size, speed and power of these two humans seems impossible when seen live. Sooo much more entertaining then watching a downpour of three pointers. Read more

Three of the five Bucks are standing in the restricted area by the time Embiid gets there, but that slick spin move turns Brook Lopez into a screen on the other two Read more

And this is, quite unironically and amazingly, the best proof of Marchman’s point — the American experiment literally begins with a select group of privileged people speaking for a circumscribed “We” and the whole of American history since has been a neverending struggle to reconcile that one fucking word. Read more

Please note that none of these scary proposals amount to or advocate an abandonment of border enforcement. Personally I don’t give a shit about that, because immigration is good and society should welcome it, Read more

“Without immigration restrictions, there are no national borders. Without national borders, there are no nation-states.”  Read more

What sickens me about articles like Frums is that any historical context of US foreign policy in South America is completely scrubbed from the record. People don’t just leave their homes in droves for no reason. Why it happens is never explored, or even mentioned! You don’t even need to look very far to connect these… Read more

True Mexicans use some cooked garlic, and some raw. Totally different flavors for each, and great in combination Read more