The Third Shift

  1. The best part, as usual, is the text you get when your cursor hovers over the comic: “I would subscribe to a Twitter feed that provided you with one reasonable sports opinion per day, like ‘the Red Sox can’t make the playoffs (championship game), but in last night’s game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding rival team).” (via xkcd: Sports Cheat Sheet)

    The best part, as usual, is the text you get when your cursor hovers over the comic:

    “I would subscribe to a Twitter feed that provided you with one reasonable sports opinion per day, like ‘the Red Sox can’t make the playoffs (championship game), but in last night’s game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding rival team).”

    (via xkcd: Sports Cheat Sheet)

    2. Source: xkcd.com

    Tagged:  xkcd   sports   comics   humor 

    Posted 8 months ago 42 notes

    1. darakatsrantsandsatires reblogged this from naysayersspeak and added:
      So you know Cricket doesn’t exist was my first thought, and you know Japan does go pretty mad for baseball, also here we...
    2. naysayersspeak reblogged this from screwrocknroll and added:
      LOL, I saw this yesterday, got really mad, swore to post about how freaking horrible it was, and then promptly forgot....
    3. aynbandz reblogged this from fuckmaniknowbuthey and added:
      Baseball Prospectus has a VORS(Value Over Replacement Sperglord-for reference we will use your average Slashdot poster)...
    4. mikeylove reblogged this from thethirdshift
    5. constellation-funk reblogged this from iamdavidbrothers
    6. timetoteleport reblogged this from anycoloriwant and added:
      yeah also this is true and there’s some fairly troubling eurocentrism here. like, in big parts of Asia soccer is far...
    7. baconistasty reblogged this from iamdavidbrothers and added:
      I love that I’m not the only person utterly baffled by trying to explain the appeal to baseball to anyone who isn’t...
    8. galbee reblogged this from iamdavidbrothers and added:
      ^^^^^^^^ THIS
    9. anycoloriwant reblogged this from middleclassvirtue and added:
      Oh wow, would you look at that. I mean the IT Crowd is more or less funnier than XKCD anyway but erg, those are kinda...
    10. fuckmaniknowbuthey reblogged this from timetoteleport
    11. middleclassvirtue reblogged this from anycoloriwant and added:
      I was referencing an episode of The IT Crowd where there is an app that provides nerdy guys with things to say to fellow...
    12. iamdavidbrothers reblogged this from natepatrin and added:
      One of the best reasons to opt out of nerd culture is demonstrated by comics like this. A high school affection for the...
    13. natepatrin reblogged this from screwrocknroll and added:
      Well, at least cricket was spared the nerdy contempt — “Tee hee, these ‘jocks’ and their meaningless, science-deficient...
    14. thethirdshift reblogged this from screwrocknroll and added:
      a Twitter friend noted lack of NASCAR, hockey, and soccer type football from US side as well. but I’m just going to use...
    15. screwrocknroll reblogged this from thethirdshift and added:
      this “cricket” thing I’ve heard about? Isn’t it...national obsession
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