Month: October 2024

I’m told the baseball playoffs start soon, which means another month of magical October baseball magic magicness is upon us, or however a cunt like Ken Burns describes it. I have no idea who’s in the playoffs this year. Are the Yankees in? They are? Yeah well, fuck them in the hat. Next week, I’ll be writing up our brand new Hater’s Guide to the 2010 MLB playoffs. And I’m enlisting your help this time around. As always, a good Hater’s Guide is filled with horrible invective and astonishing ignorance of its subject matter. I am qualified in all areas to analyze baseball in this manner. I’m not a gay fanboy like Leitch who watches a baseball game and keeps a scorebook and is like WAHHHH MY DADDY’S GONNA DIE ONE DAY! But I can’t do this alone. Surely, some of you have a d…

data-mm-id=”_y9iqhe8jj”>For the second week in a row, the Tennessee Titans went on the road and came out with an upset playoff win. Yet their success will not be the prevailing media narrative of the upcoming week. Instead, as with the New England Patriots the week before, the spotlight will be on the defeated Baltimore Ravens, and in particular, the performance of quarterback Lamar Jackson.Not without reason, admittedly. When you carry a 19-4 regular season record and an 0-2 postseason record, people are bound to ask questions of your performance.Let's not dance around this: This wasn't his best night. Jackson's two interceptions marked his first multi-INT game since October against Pittsburgh, a game the Ravens still won. His passer rating dipped to 63.2, the second-lo…

data-mm-id=”_oot4nyvo3″>Tom Brady is reportedly set to join the Buccaneers. While we've gone over what's waiting for him in Tampa Bay, we thought now would be a good time to look at the winners and losers of this huge move. Winners:Bruce AriansLord, Arians has to be thrilled. After dealing with Jameis Winston's ridiculous 30-interception season in 2019, he gets to coach a quarterback who knows how to throw the ball away and not hurt his team. He'll also be inheriting one of the smartest signal-callers in NFL history and guy with a championship pedigree. Oh, and he'll be motivated to prove his down season in 2019 was a fluke.Arians has to be doing backflips over this development. Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an organizationApologies to the great Kevin House, but Brad…

data-mm-id=”_nuwglqk29″>Do you people want to know the horrible truth or do you want to see sluggers sock some dingers? If your answer is the latter, ESPN2 has you covered. On March 26, originally slated as Major League Baseball's Opening Day, the network will show an eight-hour Home Run Derby marathon beginning at 6 p.m. Contests from 2015, and 2017-2019 will be pulled back, back, back from the archives. That is a lot of tape-measure blasts and kids falling down after misjudging the carry of a fly ball. Since it's on television, people will watch it. They enjoy homers. But this morning, I'm wondering if there's a niche content opportunity down the line catering to purists like myself. Surely with all this downtime, we can get our best tape-cutters on the project of…

data-mm-id=”_k1x58ow59″>Jadeveon Clowney all offseason: "I want to be paid top dollar!"Cleveland Browns (apparently): "Here's top dollar."Jadeveon Clowney: "Nah, I'm good."Based on the latest report from Adam Schefter, that's essentially what happened in negotiations between the Browns and Jadeveon Clowney. They offered him the biggest contract he's received this offseason and he balked at the opportunity to sign with them. Schefter was unsure if he didn't want to be in Cleveland or didn't feel the organization was the right fit, but said if Clowney wanted to be a Brown he would have already signed with them. That's how good the reported money was. While mystery remains, this report does put Clowney and his agent in a wor…

data-mm-id=”_ct0bclg61″>In big news on Thursday, FedEx has asked the Washington D.C.'s NFL franchise to change its name. FedEx sponsors the team's home field and says it has told the franchise to make the change. ESPN has a statement from the company:””We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name.””FedEx paid $205 million for naming rights of the team's stadium in 1998 and that deal runs through 2025. The company's CEO, Fred Smith, owns a minority stake the in franchise as well. FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo have all received letters signed by 87 investment firms and shareholders demanding they sever ties with the franchise unless it changes its name. The firms are worth a collective $620 billion. The battle over the team'…

data-mm-id=”_zgj2tsajj”>Tyler Herro is a bucket. And a problem. And apparently one of the best players to ever live? I mean, he's 20-years-old. He dropped 37 points on the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. He was the youngest player to ever drop 30 off the bench in a playoff game and it was the most points scored by a rookie in the NBA Playoffs since Andrew Toney scored 35 against the Celtics in 1981. Tyler Herro on why he chose to wear Black Lives Matter on his jersey “My teammates are predominantly black, the league is predominantly black, there’s obviously a problem going on in the world” pic.twitter.com/HPAnXlLKGh— gifdsports (@gifdsports) September 24, 2020If Toney is Herro's basement, an NBA champion and 2-time All-Star, that's pretty good. …