HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Read more

Third pick, not fourth. Read more

Hey, the Pacers are cool! Victor Oladipo rules, Myles Turner is good to watch, and Domantas Sabonis is slick as hell. You should root for the Pacers. Read more

De’Andre Hunter, who rules. Read more

It’s a little early to be this ready for the weekend. Read more

Uhh, a fan died from being hit in the head by a foul liner last summer? This slippery slope stuff is unnecessary. If players start hitting dangerous balls into the upper deck, we can revisit the issue. Read more

I feel pretty confident that, over a long enough timeline, baseball players would get better at using all fields and render the shift a losing proposition. On the other hand, it seems increasingly likely that the inevitable collapse of human civilization will thwart any evolutions of that kind. Ah well. Read more

I should’ve gone ahead and put this in the blog, because I’ve gotten probably a dozen emails about it: in 1971, the Milwaukee Bucks were in the Western Conference. Read more

I’m sorry, no, that person who I’m sure is quite real does not count. Read more

The absolute best possible turn of events, in fact. Read more

I said this in another thread, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that Steve Kerr told his guys to call a timeout and take the technical foul in the event of an offensive rebound or tie-up or loose ball scramble. Letting the clock just run out for lack of timeouts would not be an option. Read more

Honestly, it would not surprise me at all to learn that Steve Kerr had told them to go ahead and call a timeout if they got an offensive rebound or had a tie-up or loose ball scramble. Read more

Come on, be fair. If he didn’t call the timeout and get the technical, he would’ve given his team even less chance of winning. The only way the Warriors could extend the game was by getting the technical. Read more

Jittery fingers! Thanks for pointing it out. Read more

I changed this from “Hall of Fame baseball player” to “future Hall of Fame baseball player,” just to clarify that this is me asserting that David Ortiz was a Hall of Fame-caliber baseball player and predicting that he will be a Hall of Famer. Read more

As I recall, he beaned Bryce for the crime of being 19 years old. Read more

And in a crowded building under camera surveillance, in a block crammed with traffic, in a downtown area! Read more

Right leg, not left leg. Read more

Pittsburgh, dammit. Read more

Dammit. /fixed Read more