Sports aren't a morality play. I need to say this. I may need to say it over and over again. Quite frankly, the idea of sportsmanship, while nice in the abstract, isn't really relevant, especially in professional sports ( Read more... )

I'd love to write a meandering, elegiac post about the greatness of Mariano Rivera and what he's meant to me as a Yankee fan and to the world as a person, but I really can't. His performance, his elegance on the mound, his humility off it, all defy description. So instead, I'll say this ( Read more... )

From a great mind (and mine), okapi_jeff and I present Yasiel Puig Facts1. Yasiel Puig hit a game tying two run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and no one on base ( Read more... )

A thought for the day:

Please remember that the Red Sox haven't been any kind of underdogs in about half a century. In fact, the only time the Old Towne Team can be described as plucky is when their jock straps ride up into their ass cracks.

I didn't say it was a helpful thought

This, written by Bill Simmons, is a powerfully written, emotional, and thoughtful look at the question of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in professional sport. It's also almost completely and totally wrong, from sentence one to sentence end. In a nutshell, Simmons resents the fact that the proliferation of PEDs have robbed him of the ability to ( Read more... )

Random thoughts ( Read more... )

So I've blown off the quotes because I've either fried, out, or both all week. Thinking about the Super Bowl halftime show. I thought it was awesome that the Who got their turn to do the show a couple of years ago, and it was... less than impressive. So they went with a younger artist (but not that much younger; the Black Eyed Peas have been around ( Read more... )

"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."
--Vince Lombardi

Congratulations to the Super Bowl Champion New York Football Giants!

In case anyone is wondering about my opinion on the NFL lockout (ha! I flatter myself undeservedly), I'm rescuing this comment I made on George R.R. Martin's livejournal ( Read more... )

So I've started reading David Weber's Honor Harrington books. Has anyone else read them? If so, do they get better? I'm about 80 percent of the way through the second one, The Honor of the Queen, and I'm not especially impressed. I can't help but compare them to the Miles Vorkosigan books, which are also space opera published by Baen, and so ( Read more... )