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I honestly thought that was Cody Rhodes when I first looked at it.

Apparently 2.2 million people bought the deluxe edition to play 3 days early.

LOL, my QB and wide receivers are essentially Patrick Mahomes, Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, and Terrell Owens...too bad I'm playing running back. My QB threw for 5000+ yards, 61 TDs, and 2 INTs. I have 2 receivers who have over 1400 yards and 20 TDs. The 3rd receiver is a 96 overall, who had over 1100 yards and 14 TDs. That's still no excuse to give the 2nd string running back more carries than the starter. If I don't win the national title, this game is broken.

OK, so I finished my sophmore season with 156 carries for 1,371 yards and 11 TDs. I won the generic Doak Walker and was first team All-American, but they gave my backup 5 more carries than me and would not play me for 3 or 4 series at a time. I don't want to go all Keyshawn on anyone, but just give me the damn ball.

Road to Glory is killing me. They gave me a challenge to get 3 20+ yard runs, but they only gave me 8 carries. Then the punk ass offensive coordinator texts me talking about how I need to step up my game when I had 8 carries for 115 yards, and he gave my backup 18 carries for 93 yards.

The key to happiness in life is multiple TVs.

I really don't know how to explain how well Civilization games fit into their space in my gaming world. I don't think Civilization is even close to what I want it to be, but it's so much closer than any of its competitors that none of them can really take is place. It's like that one friend you're always arguing with, but you don't want them to go away.

The best baseball player of all time is one of those conversations we pretend is difficult, but it's a 4 person race and 2 of the 4 have a pretty big caveat associated with their greatness. Aaron and Mays are the only two who played at a time where pretty much everyone who wanted to play could and did so before steroids were prominent. Both Ruth and Bonds were legitimately great, but Mays and Aaron don't have much you can argue against.

Yeah, supermodels aren't my type either. Otherwise I'd be the all time leader in dating supermodels. My argument against Cobb, Gwynn, and Ichiro is based purely on the fact that the object of the game is to score runs not to get on base. Aaron, Ruth, Mays, and Bonds all played to score runs. No matter how great you are at hitting, you'll lose points on your average producing runs. Musial is the best baseball player no one ever talks about as the best baseball player ever. He's absolutely worthy of the conversation. Pujols is probably the next best player no one mentions. He was terrible for about a decade, and still ended up with 3384 hits and 703 homers. That's how good his prime was. He's Hank Aaron if instead of being great forever he was incredible for half his career and average for the other half.

Cobb was great, and an incredible hitter, but his lack of power keeps him off of my list. Aaron is my greatest hitter of all time because he was the best hitter for every situation. Not only is #1 all time in total bases, he had 8 individual seasons he was #1. Both Aaron and Cobb have 15 seasons in the top 10, but Aaron was top 5 in all but one. Cobb also played against lesser competition. Aaron isn't just #1, he's #1 by over 600 bases. He's the most consistently excellent hitter who has ever picked up a bat. No one was better day-to-day for a longer time than Hank Aaron. He is remembered as the Home Run King, but he's 3rd all time in hits, first in RBIs and finished his career with a .305 average. His ability to not just hit, but to hit for average while being the best extra base hitter ever is why I'll take Hank Aaron over any other hitter in history.

Pedro might be the best out-of-the-box player to put here. His peak was so high that he legit may be the best pitcher ever. There are a couple of guys who should be on this list...but we don't put them on this list. Barry Bonds is absolutely in this conversation, Roger Clemens is also in this conversation, and fucking A-Rod is absolutely in this conversation.

I think Mays is probably the best baseball player ever based on the fact that there is not a single part of baseball where he was not excellent. Mays is a hall-of-fame average hitter, power hitter, fielder, baserunner, and he had a rocket arm. I think the closest to Mays is Aaron, who was a slightly better hitter (for my money Aaron is the best hitter of all time when you consider everything you want a hitter to do) but a worse defender. Ruth was so much better than everyone else he played against that he put up incredible numbers, but both Mays and Aaron were better all-around players. Ted Williams is the other plater in the conversation, but he was not nearly the defender or base runner that Mays and Aaron were.

There are very few credible answers to who is the greatest baseball player ever. Willie Mays is one of them. If you try to tell me that any baseball player was better than Willie Mays, their name better be Babe, Ted, or Hank, or you probably don't have a decent case. He is on the short list of greatest American athletes of all time, and is one of the few athletes that you never hear a bad word about. Rest in peace to a truly legendary sports figure and American Hero.

The crazy thing about Inside the NBA is that it's the best show about basketball despite the fact that they're awful at breaking down how the current NBA works. Barkley is the basketball Joe Morgan, constantly talking bad about analytics when their hall of fame careers look even better when you use modern statistical analysis. Dude, playing in the style that you played is what works and you're on television telling everyone that playing that was is stupid just because someone with s calculator said it was smart. Joe Morgan got laughed off television by the end. Inside the NBA works because Charles Barkley can say anything and get away with it. He's the best athlete who has done television, and the margin between him and second best is the grand canyon.

The most important thing a sports show can have is interesting talent. The format should fit the talent. PTI works because Wilbon and Kornheiser are fun to watch bicker, the format works so they don't run out of steam on one subject. Inside the NBA works because Charles and Kenny are great together. I hated when they are Shaq at first, but he found his space and fit in. Ernie is just there to keep the train on the tracks, which is an incredibly important role in that show. The trick to all sports television is that the sports don't matter that much. Sports happen everyday, but there are plenty of days where nothing interesting happens. The reason Stephen A. Smith gets paid what he gets paid is because it doesn't actually matter what he is talking about. He can summon a passionate argument about anything. The people matter much more than the sports. The ESPN show doesn't work because it does a terrible job at letting the people shine, and therefore the basketball feels less important.