It’s basically the equivalent of an NBA team taking a lead one minute and 11 seconds into a game, and then holding that lead until squandering it away with under 18 seconds left.

I really like this, which the talented Drew Sheppard has put together, and you will, too – a video montage of every single one of Darvish’s 221 strike threes in 2012.

It’s basically the equivalent of an NBA team taking a lead one minute and 11 seconds into a game, and then holding that lead until squandering it away with under 18 seconds left.
It's not actually very much like that. At all.

Why Joe Saunders instead of Steve Johnson?

It’s basically the equivalent of an NBA team taking a lead one minute and 11 seconds into a game, and then holding that lead until squandering it away with under 18 seconds left.

Seven Rangers players have appeared in at least 147 games in 2012, five of them at least 156. Ten teams since 1969 have featured that latter number.

OK, it's the equivalent of meeting an attractive young woman at a quiet bar, chatting her up, flirting going well, meaningful looks, a few light touches, deal almost closed ... then Chris Berman walks by and says "You're with me Leather" and off she goes