"Off-Season's Greetings" will be taking the weekend off. If all goes according to plan, it will be back Monday. If things do not go according to plan, then only God knows what will happen.
If things do not go according to plan, then only God knows what will happen.
This applies to more than just baseball updates, yeah?
Have kids, they said. It'll be great, the said. They won't not make it to the bathroom in time causing a big mess and need to jump in the shower right when it's time to go to school, they said.
Wait, did they really say all that? They were pretty clearly lying to you, my man.
Apparently I need to get new they's.
I mean, right? No way all that was said with a straight face. Maybe Cheap has trouble picking up on sarcasm?
Yup. I think cheaps could possibly have a broken antennae
In his defense, they do pull that kind of stuff quite a lot.
This is where I can't help but to say sports and college should be separated.
Also, I'm gonna try to keep the trinket out of gymnastics.
Number one on my “If they’re crazy enough to name me Chancellor...” to-do list is “shut down the Athletic Department.” Number two is “shut down fraternities/sororities.” Number three is “establish a new Experimental College for a new century.”
The track and field in me is saddened. The swimmer in me would be too, if there was one
I ran CC & track. Plenty of opportunities for competitive running exist outside NCAA-sanctioned events. Intermurals are fine for relays & whatnot. Swimming is a bit tougher, but I’m not sure the plight of rowing/swimming/soccer/tennis programs is an adequate reason for maintaining a mega-powerful, increasingly toxic influence on university campuses.
and the club sports system exists for a reason.
Yup. Get the highly compensated, and thus highly motivated to cover things up, assholes out of the picture and get rid of scholarships for sports. I have a feeling the big universities will be just fine without football or basketball income.
Yup to all of this. The lie about how college sports give poor and minority kids an "opportunity" to get a college education deeply disturbs me. Those kids are working full-time jobs as athletes and way too often are treated as disposable, depreciable assets by the College Sports Industrial Complex. They are cheap labor, used for the greater glory of the college, the enrichment of the coaches and ADs, the gratification of alums, and the entertainment of fans. There is nothing "free" about their supposedly free educations.
establish a new Experimental College for a new century.
I was going to make a comment about Evergreen College, and then I fell down a rabbit hole of horribleness from last year. I'm more disgusted than I've been in a long time.
Uffda.
It's a good thing they have such a profitable program so they can avoid NCAA penalties. Right, UNC?
There’s a tremendous amount of money & power in programs like that, and as Paterno/Sandusky illustrated, incredible potential for the very worst sort of corruption.
RIP Sports on Earth.
I read it a lot when Joe Posnanski wrote there. Lately, I've just been deleting the notices of Will Leitch's articles in my RSS to see what was going on in all the sports I've been ignoring.
Wow, it lasted 5 years?? Could've sworn in was more like 2.
Then again, I only read when Pos wrote there.
Leitch writes well, but he was producing a lot of filler for the site.
It has been an honor and a delight to have the opportunity to write about sports every day for you for the past five-and-a-half years, which, for what it's worth, is about as long as The National and Grantland existed, combined.
Meanwhile, The Hardball Times turns fourteen this year. I really love that it’s still around, even if it’s not at the center of the baseball blogosphere anymore.
I’m thinking that spring training might be a good occasion to write a post intended to spur a conversation on what sportswriters we’re reading/following on all the various platforms & services. We’ve had scattered conversations here & there, and it’d be nice to collect all those recommendations.
If folks enjoyed that, we could expand to variations on that theme for other topics.
I like this idea... mostly because Teh Basement is my collective and clearinghouse for online reading. I don’t see much (sports-related for sure) that I don’t follow from someone’s link here.
"Off-Season's Greetings" will be taking the weekend off. If all goes according to plan, it will be back Monday. If things do not go according to plan, then only God knows what will happen.
This applies to more than just baseball updates, yeah?
Have kids, they said. It'll be great, the said. They won't not make it to the bathroom in time causing a big mess and need to jump in the shower right when it's time to go to school, they said.
Wait, did they really say all that? They were pretty clearly lying to you, my man.
Apparently I need to get new they's.
I mean, right? No way all that was said with a straight face. Maybe Cheap has trouble picking up on sarcasm?
Yup. I think cheaps could possibly have a broken antennae
In his defense, they do pull that kind of stuff quite a lot.
What a great obituary
Awesomesauce.
I gotta pay more attention to that blog, what a great find.
That was weird. Dude has two of my three names. But very cool.
The Mesopotamians
A great moniker. Usage: Hey, did you invite the Mesopotamians to the pot-luck?
Sometimes, I enjoy these kinds of hard-hitting articles:
Joe Mauer Buys Leather Jacket.
After I chuckled, I came away thinking ... "What a great Valentines Day present!"
So long as he keeps that "Bad Boy" attitude off the field and out of the clubhouse. Don't want it affecting the team.
“He looked around to see if there were any kids or chaplains around, but he definitely said it.”
JoePos’ piece on Thome is perfect.
So Good.
Lawyer friend, dropping by my office: “I just came from court, but I can’t chat long. I’m parked illegally.”
Looks like the sh!t is hitting the fan at MSU.
This is where I can't help but to say sports and college should be separated.
Also, I'm gonna try to keep the trinket out of gymnastics.
Number one on my “If they’re crazy enough to name me Chancellor...” to-do list is “shut down the Athletic Department.” Number two is “shut down fraternities/sororities.” Number three is “establish a new Experimental College for a new century.”
The track and field in me is saddened. The swimmer in me would be too, if there was one
I ran CC & track. Plenty of opportunities for competitive running exist outside NCAA-sanctioned events. Intermurals are fine for relays & whatnot. Swimming is a bit tougher, but I’m not sure the plight of rowing/swimming/soccer/tennis programs is an adequate reason for maintaining a mega-powerful, increasingly toxic influence on university campuses.
and the club sports system exists for a reason.
Yup. Get the highly compensated, and thus highly motivated to cover things up, assholes out of the picture and get rid of scholarships for sports. I have a feeling the big universities will be just fine without football or basketball income.
Yup to all of this. The lie about how college sports give poor and minority kids an "opportunity" to get a college education deeply disturbs me. Those kids are working full-time jobs as athletes and way too often are treated as disposable, depreciable assets by the College Sports Industrial Complex. They are cheap labor, used for the greater glory of the college, the enrichment of the coaches and ADs, the gratification of alums, and the entertainment of fans. There is nothing "free" about their supposedly free educations.
establish a new Experimental College for a new century.
I was going to make a comment about Evergreen College, and then I fell down a rabbit hole of horribleness from last year. I'm more disgusted than I've been in a long time.
Uffda.
It's a good thing they have such a profitable program so they can avoid NCAA penalties. Right, UNC?
There’s a tremendous amount of money & power in programs like that, and as Paterno/Sandusky illustrated, incredible potential for the very worst sort of corruption.
RIP Sports on Earth.
I read it a lot when Joe Posnanski wrote there. Lately, I've just been deleting the notices of Will Leitch's articles in my RSS to see what was going on in all the sports I've been ignoring.
Wow, it lasted 5 years?? Could've sworn in was more like 2.
Then again, I only read when Pos wrote there.
Leitch writes well, but he was producing a lot of filler for the site.
Meanwhile, The Hardball Times turns fourteen this year. I really love that it’s still around, even if it’s not at the center of the baseball blogosphere anymore.
I’m thinking that spring training might be a good occasion to write a post intended to spur a conversation on what sportswriters we’re reading/following on all the various platforms & services. We’ve had scattered conversations here & there, and it’d be nice to collect all those recommendations.
If folks enjoyed that, we could expand to variations on that theme for other topics.
I like this idea... mostly because Teh Basement is my collective and clearinghouse for online reading. I don’t see much (sports-related for sure) that I don’t follow from someone’s link here.
Yeah, this seems like a good idea
Not here.