Sport

The Cubs are allergic to hits again

Nine games into a season is generally a stupid time to declare any team has major problems. It’s just about five percent of a season. Barely a pimple on the nose of the body of the season. But if you’re the Chicago Cubs, and you’ve had the last couple of seasons they’ve had, and you’re […]

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The problem with replay is it’s still run by people

I am not advocating sports being run by robots or AI. At least not intentionally. The expansion of video review in various sports hasn’t been the salve for controversial calls that we have all hoped. But it’s run by people, which means their faults are still in play. The issue is that whatever sport we’re […]

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The griping of one Black small biz owner is not a legit beef against MLB All-Star Game move

There may be a good-faith argument to be had about the efficacy of MLB moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia. While moving the Super Bowl helped press Arizona to recognize Martin Luther King Day as a holiday, and the NBA’s retraction of its All-Star Game from Charlotte played a role in getting parts of […]

Entertainment

Meghan King Says Her Kids ‘Have No Idea’ She And Ex Jim Edmonds Were Once Together!

This is crazy! Meghan King and Jim Edmonds split up in October of 2019, and agreed on 50/50 child custody about a month after that, but judging by their kids’ short-term memories, you would think they were never together! Related: Meghan Is Back On The Dating Circuit Weeks After Splitting From BF Christian Schauf! The former Real […]

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Drink in the Trevor Bauer tears

In some ways, it felt like MLB set up their new “inspection of baseballs” rules specifically for Trevor Bauer. He’s the one who openly bitched about the Houston Astros pitchers and their increased spin rate. He’s the one who demonstrated, in Houston, what foreign substances could do. He’s the one who brazenly used… Read more…

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Ted Cruz’s performative outrage over MLB is laughably disingenuous and toothless

Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game out of (suburban) Atlanta as a response to Georgia’s racist voting law generated a response of its own from two of the Senate’s leading shitposting insurrectionists, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee: a threat to draft legislation to revoke baseball’s antitrust exemption. Read more…

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So about those ‘deadened’ baseballs … exit velocity says, ‘Nope’

While watching Shohei Ohtani take a Dylan Cease fastball that was at the height of his Adam’s apple 450 feet out to right center Sunday night, I felt my curiosity piqued when the Statcast numbers came in. 450 feet seemed right, because he utterly murdered that ball. But that wasn’t what shifted my eyebrows. It […]