True Competitors, True Athletes Know Athletic Competition Erases all Prejudice Every so often I wade into the online battlefield of Twitter and find myself under fire against charges of racism, sexism, and transphobia. I think Colin Kaepernick was a middling quarterback and is either a woefully ignorant person or a devious hack who holds hypocritical [...]
Jonathan Lucroy Commits the Gravest of Catcher Sins so Jake Marisnick Gets Suspended Baseball is slowly shedding the fundamentals that made it such a fun game to watch for more than a century. First, it was the erosion of the sacrifice bunt. Second, came the sudden disappearance of its cousin, the sacrifice fly. Now we [...]
Colin Kaepernick Shows His True Colors; They Are Not Red, White and Blue It. Was. Never. About. Police. Brutality. When Colin Kaepernick took a knee to supposedly protest against police brutality, the timing seemed weird. He stood as a starter, he kneeled as a backup. Those doubting his sincerity--but wanting to believe maybe the timing [...]
When Police Do Not Do Their Job, There is No Law and Order The vast majority of police nationwide are legitimate heroes. You do not hear about the thousands of stories every day of police simply doing their jobs and making their communities better by making their communities safer. That is their main goal; to [...]
Democratic Hopefuls Speaking Spanish; Why Democrats Learned Nothing From 2016 No, the United States still does not technically have an official language. Yes, English is the de facto official language and you must--with rare exceptions--take the U.S. citizen's test in English. However, if you came away from the First Round of the Democratic Presidential Debate a [...]
Media Bias is Easy to See... and Not So Easy to See When it comes to media bias, most people think they know what it entails. Turn on the television, check out CNN or MSNBC and get the news. Then change the channel to Fox News. Boom! Media Bias. With practically every story shown on [...]
The Boston Red Sox Just Played a Refund Game for the Ages; Let's Go Over it in Detail! It was all going so smoothly... until it wasn't. When the Boston Red Sox took on the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park on June 23rd, nobody watching from the stands or at home knew they were [...]
The Red Sox/Twins Marathon Reveals the Importance of the RBI Scoffed at. Derided. Belittled. The RBI is an anachronism in modern-day baseball. Cast aside by the sabermatricians and analytical minds in the front offices of major league baseball organizations. Yet, it still shows up on your standard player bug for every bat. It remains a [...]
The Kyle Kashuv Admission Fiasco Should Scare Everyone No. Nobody is dead. That is the important thing to remember as everyone starts to grab their spades and dig their trenches. Harvard first granted admission and then rescinded admission to Kyle Kashuv; the now famous right-wing survivor of the Parkland Shooting. By every available metric, the [...]
The Worst Timeout in NBA History Brings the Warriors Back from Valhalla Congratulations Andy Reid, you have company on the Mount Rushmore of Clock Mismanagement! And the newest addition joins you for the polar opposite reason. The Jolly Red Giant of Kansas City (and Philadelphia) is, of course, known for his complete and utter inability [...]
