A bunch of catch-all...

Will have to do the score report for last week in a bit.

This is post #999.  So, obviously, I'm going to have to have a 1,000th post that, on some level, is going to be something introspective or the like.

Anyhow, before we get there, though, some news:

• Torii Hunter is a flaming bigot.

That, in and of itself, is not really news.

How far he's willing to go for it might be a challenge for outgoing Commissioner Selig and incoming Commissioner Manfred, though.

You see, a reporter at Hunter's press conference did the following, according to Deadspin:

"Torii Hunter is an anti-gay bigot. This is something he has proven with his own words on multiple occasions. Yesterday, at the press conference to announce the one-year, $10.5 million deal he signed to return to the Minnesota Twins, beat writer Mike Berardino of the Saint Paul Pioneer-Press asked him about those beliefs—specifically, in the context of how Hunter thought supporting Arkansas Republican Governor-elect Asa Hutchinson in his recent election had affected his free agency."

In short, guy's doing his job, right?

He got this response:

"You got some people who are just messy, you know? So, no. It is something I don't like to talk about, but Republican Party, Democratic Party, separated, divided we fall. Simple as that. We just go with the best person that's good for the situation. And I'm from Arkansas and I know what's that, that's all. This has nothing to do with being a Democrat or a Republican, just make sure you make the right decision. That's it."

Then the mask completely came off, and it was on against Berardino:

"Hey Mike is kind of a prick huh? No, seriously, you're a prick man. I don't even know you. You're a prick. Seriously. Ain't nothing wrong with that man, that's your job. He's definitely a prick though."

So it's a prick to be a human being.

And you must think someone like Adam Silver is a complete prick.

I really hope that there is a massive prick somewhere in the MLB Commissioner's Office.  He does that in the NBA, and he's probably suspended.

We don't need your asshole in sports, you fucking bigoted prick.

• Another week, more Jameis Winston garbage.

Well, this is it.  About all his victim is ever going to get:  Winston's sham Title IX trial with FSU is this week.

It might as well be a trial with a racist group for lynching someone of an opposite race.

More Deadspin here:

Now it's Jameis Winston who feels raped.

Enough.

Fucking...  enough.

It's gotten so bad with this motherfucker that my anonymous friend (who gets a hat-tip for pointing out both of these) openly questions not if the accuser will be dead, but only how it goes down:  Suicide or homicide?

Here's your new face of football, Football Nation America.  And it's so bad that I openly have to wonder if the most prescient comment about the state of football (though he was talking about something much more) was made by the new host of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, Terry Crews...

"I get a lot of guys who are like, "You know, that's good, man. That's cool," and I also get guys who are like, "What are you DOING?"...It's like, what is the big deal? But it's [that I'm] telling. [I'm] telling. "It's MAN CODE, dude. Man Code! C'mon."...but does Man Code work when it's your daughter who gets raped? Man Code—does that work when your mom gets abused?

...I'm living in the real world and you can drink the Kool-Aid all you want. A lot of guys love the Kool-Aid. The sports world is Kool-Aid world...You can do anything if [you win]...What happens is they win and they go, "You know that girl? She's my trophy. I deserve that girl. In fact, she don't even want to be with me, but I don't care. I'm going to take it." What kind of mindset is that? Never never never never never should that ever be accepted. That's not "code." That's Taliban. That's ISIS."

He's right.  And it's not going to matter that he's right.

He's going to get his ass kicked.

Why?

Man Code.

The same Man Code that Damon Bruce expounded upon (second half of the post), and got called out for by Keith Olbermann.

Man Code...

Oh shit...