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Maybe the really dumb ones.

Deciding not to buy it is not emotional. Immediately assuming they must be idiots who don't understand their business, however, is. When their plan is idiotic there's nothing emotional about pointing it out.

http://deadspin.com/5838700/the-heartbreaking-hockey-funeral-for-lokomotiv-yaroslavl that's a sad video

Don't forget that brutal touchback call. Saints should have started on their own 1 for that last drive. It was the right call -- your momentum can't take you into the EZ. (Per Mike Perreia). Anybody who whined about that call should have their football fan card revoked. It's not a pass reception in college where you just have to get one foot down. He went into the endzone.

What a stupid premise to begin with. Fleita is bad at his job. This team has done a piss poor job and he's been in that role for a very long time.

He gets himself in trouble with all of his rules for picking games and defining teams.

http://deadspin.com/5838094/life-is-crap-without-something-to-look-forward-to-the-week-1-nfl-jamboroo For your filthy potty mouthed reading enjoyment, here's deadspin's preview. Drew doesn't like the Bears this year, and I don't mind.

I'm amazed by how much people care how athletes perform in games, but I do it just the same.

Looked to me like he had them even. He ranked the AFC East NE, NY, BUF, MIA, which was what started the whole discussion. And even he had them even, it still doesn't change anything. Didn't he have 6-7 wins for both of them? Seems like you're arguing over nothing. It's a couple of crappy teams.

which would be A-ok with me He should punch Mike Tice then. He's the one trying to push a 2nd year 7th round pick down our throats as a LT. To be fair, Angelo hasn't given him jack squat to work with.

Looked to me like he had them even.

You think 6 games is hard to achieve? You can be a flawed team that wins 6 games. They also get to face teams like Miami and the AFC West. That wasn't the point. Did you read the rest of the paragraph? I did. Your question didn't make much sense. He basically has the Bills and Dolphins even and you are mad because Buffalo has some of the same issues that the Dolphins have and should therefore get fewer wins?

And yet, they have to be banking on that occuring, otherwise they wouldn't be trying it. Check out this article about Newsday in NY's trouble in getting subscribers to their pay site: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site Although in their paywall, they let the print subscribers get access for free while DH is charging them. I'm guessing a lot of their subscribers will be print subscribers. "banking on" doesn't sound like such a great business decision. They're probably wrong. The "double" subscription is also a joke. There's the double subscription and the obscenely high fee in the first place. $20 for 30 days. That is insane.

Does that market really care all that much about Chicago, St. Louis or Pittsburgh? In addition to the nearby Rangers, which should turn into a big rivalry very quickly, they will get the Yankees and Red Sox visiting each year. I really don't think it should be hard at all to market that team in the AL in comparison to the NL.

You think 6 games is hard to achieve? You can be a flawed team that wins 6 games. They also get to face teams like Miami and the AFC West.

Some quick math has Cowboys at 234 pts over their last 8, and Packers at 267. Possible I'm wrong somewhere though, I did it in a hurry. No you are probably right. I heard it while I was doing something else. It was probably like top 5 over the last 8 games or something. 234 points over 8 games is 29.3 PPG, so that's gotta be in the top 5 or so in the league. Doing that with Kitna at QB, regardless of how meaningless the games were for them, has to count for something. Counts as a knock against Romo.

The Daytona Cubs twitter feed described it as a "MOONSHOT" for what that's worth. I didn't know a bunt could be a moonshot. It was a full moon and very low in the sky that night.

It's not a matter of should or should not. It's stupid to pay $20 for a month of content on the daily herald website. It costs money to produce ESPN.com's content but they don't charge to see the majority of it. It costs money to produce a hell of a lot of things that don't cost the consumer a nickel to view.

A good decade after I first started talking about these ideas I'm getting a little excited that MLB is actually thinking of doing some of them.

Year-round interleague play is bad enough on its own. But year-round interleague would stress the rules disparity between the AL and NL, and eventually force the NL to adopt the DH (as the MLBPA would never give up the DH in the AL, with all the money it brings in). That's the part I find really upsetting. It would not. You wouldn't need anymore interleague games than you already have, so why would that force a change to the DH rule? If anything it would dilute the attention to the whole thing, spreading it out over 6 months intstead of cramming it into 3 weeks.

I can't now. They blocked most everything. And they are trying to charge $3 for 24 hours of access or $20 for a month. That is absurd.

Not sure if I agree with that. Brady is the reigning MVP. Vick would have been MVP in most other years. Rivers is a perennial 4000 yard passer Brees is a perennial 4000 yard passer Rodgers is a 4000 yard passer and SB MVP Schaub, Cutler, Romo, and Eli have all had 4000 yard seasons in their careers and clearly capable of doing so again. Roethlisberger is a 3X superbowl QB Ryan, Bradford, and Freeman look to be true franchise QBs. Flacco and Cassel are legit NFL starters. That's 15 of the 32 QBs who are pretty good players. Not including Peyton Manning who's hurt. McNabb and Hasselbeck who are about 2-3 years removed from great seasons. Sanchez who has led his team to 3 straight AFC championships. Orton led the league in passing last year until he got benched for a team that was out of it. Stafford, a #1 pick who would be in the top group if healthy. Kolb who could join the top group with a strong year. Cam Newton, #1 draft pick making his debut this weekend. Names like Alex Smith, Rex Grossman, Jason Campbell, Chad Henne, and whoever the hell Jacksonville is starting are the exception. QB play is much stronger across the board than it was 5-6 years ago when guys like Joey Harrington, David Carr, Aaron Brooks, and Kyle Boller were starting QBS. Every year people like to whine about how horrible NFL QBs are as if there was an ere where there were so many more great ones.

They are also the Cowboys and there is a lot of money to be made by overhyping them, which is what everybody has been doing for a decade.

What kind of nonsensical jackass statement is this and in what way does it come close to responding to what I wrote?

Not sure why you would say that. Guys resign from positions every year, and rarely do they spell out exactly why, especially the day after doing it. I guess, but it seemed like Amaro was being really weird about it in the press conference, and he did mention something about leaving to persue other baseball interests. He could be taking a lateral position but why leave a solid organization like the Phillies? And if he was going to leave baseball, he probably would have indicated as much. Again, I don't know why you think he "probably" would have given any indication. That's a false assumption. He's an older guy in a secondary role. Maybe he wanted more money, or more power or both. Maybe he got cocky and played all his cards only to see it blow up in his face. There's no reason for Amaro to go into details and there's really nothing all that extraordinary about these circumstances.