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Michael Conforto Crushes Poor Baseball Into Outer Space
What we have here is a Mets [checks notes] highlight? No, wait, that can’t be right....
Giants Wide Receivers Are Adorably Hype For Odell Beckham's New Extension
After an extremely long and drawn-out negotiation process, the Giants have signed wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.—who was entering the last year of his contract—to a pretty sweet long-term extension....
The Details Of Teddy Bridgewater's Knee Surgery Are Gruesome
It’s been nearly two years since then-Vikings (and current Jets) quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a catastrophic knee injury during practice. Now, the doctor who performed the surgeries to repair Bridgewater’s ruined knee, Dan Cooper, has shared some of the details of what went down with ESPN....
The Mets Did It Again
Oh brother, what are those freaking Mets up to this time?...
Buncha Wilmers
It’s true! The Mets infielder is Wilmer Alejandro Flores, while his brothers are Wilmer de Jesus Flores and Wilmer Rafael Flores. That’s even more Wilmers than there are Rougneds....
The Phillies Are Going To Miss The Playoffs Because They Keep Losing To The Mets
The Phillies played a marquee game on national cable last night, so of course they lost, falling 8-2 to the Mets in the 2018 MLB Little League Classic in Williamsport and losing a chance to climb back into first in the NL East. The Phillies lost 3 of 5 in the series, bringing them to 5-8 against the...
The Mets Made The Phillies Look Like The Mets
The New York Mets are the greatest baseball team of the past two days. Following up on a 16-5 drubbing of the Orioles on Wednesday night, one of the biggest laughingstocks in baseball took down the Phillies this afternoon by a staggeringly competent score of 24-4. Those 24 runs today are a Mets fran...
J.J. Redick Says He Discovered A Caged Person In His Taxi
Before a chat with Orlando Magic rookie Mo Bamba, J.J. Redick opened today’s episode of his podcast with an account of how he supposedly saw a person in a cage in his car service driver’s trunk yesterday. Wait, what?...
Two Insufferable Teams Combine Forces For One Really Big Piece Of Shit
Notre Dame football will play at Yankee Stadium in November, so to commemorate what will surely be a memorable game against Syracuse, the Fighting Irish will wear these pinstriped uniforms. The price is quite steep at $95, but anyone who’d buy one would be doing so drunk anyway....
Let's Check In On Christian Hackenberg
The Eagles brought in Christian Hackenberg to see if there’s any there there for the 2016 second-round pick, who hasn’t played a regular-season NFL snap and is now on his third team. Today was his first day of full-team practices, and ......
Terrelle Pryor Is A Little Jumpy Around His Old Friends
After a disappointing season with Washington last year, current Jets wide receiver Terrelle Pryor is back practicing with his old teammates during a joint practice in Richmond, Va. They don’t seem particularly happy to see each other. ...
Break Up The Mets!
The Mets beat the Yankees Monday night, 8–5, for their second consecutive win, and fourth in five games, and sixth in nine. They’re coming off their first consecutive series wins since April, and recently got long-suffering Jacob deGrom his first win since mid-June. Things are finally looking ... kn...
Brawl Spills Over Into Fan Area At Skins-Jets Joint Practice
The Jets and Skins participated in a joint practice Sunday afternoon at Washington’s Richmond training camp. As happens, things got heated between the two teams, leading to several skirmishes and, finally, a big ol’ footbrawl:...
Mike Francesa: Yeah, I Remember Grinding My Feet Into Eddie's Couch
This is unreal....
Giancarlo Stanton Set A Record For The Hardest-Hit Home Run
Exit velocity has become the bugbear of baseball’s anti–“super nerds” crowd. For them, the relatively recent ability to measure how hard a ball comes off a bat is a symbol of everything wrong with modern baseball analysis: a quantification of something that doesn’t need to be quantified; a number th...
James Dolan's New Song Is About How He Should Have Stopped Harvey Weinstein
Knicks owner James Dolan was a longtime friend of disgraced sex pervert Harvey Weinstein, and now he wants to let everyone know that he, James Dolan, is sorry that he never stopped Weinstein from sexually assaulting countless women. Because he is James Dolan, he has expressed this regret through a p...
Yeah, That's A Goddamn Moth In An Umpire's Ear
Gahhhhh. This is an awful thing that should never happen—with any living creature, not just a dusty flying bug—but Yankees-White Sox umpire Bruce Dreckman was remarkably calm when a small, moth-like animal (most likely a moth) flew into his ear between innings....
Why Is Jose Reyes Still Playing For The Mets?
It still doesn’t quite scan, given that Jose Reyes is one of the best players ever to play for the New York Mets, but it’s true. Purely from a baseball standpoint—surely the most charitable standpoint from which to view someone who was suspended for 51 games by Major League Baseball for an incident ...
Yankees Play-By-Play Guy Michael Kay Is In Hot Water With Clint Frazier
In an animated discussion on his radio show Monday, about the four-game weekend series sweep that all but knocked the Yankees out of contention in the AL East, Yankees television play-by-play man Michael Kay was at the very least clumsy with his choice of words while bitching about which Yankees wer...