So long as they hide under the umbrella of patriotism and stroke the American ego by telling us that we are still powerful while keeping us terrified of foreign boogeymen, they can say and do whatever they want. - Bingo!

That’s the way I feel, too. He’s catering to the absolute worst of America and just look at how many racist, willfully ignorant people have come out of the woodwork. They’re no longer ashamed of their bigotry - Trump has made them proud of it, in fact. Worse yet, politics are so divisive these days that at least 45%…

Are sports supposed to be some bastion of fairness, now?

Non football-related rant: Putting up a wall would be a complete environmental and social tragedy. Migrating animals would get totally fucked. Endangered species like the jaguar are even reappearing in the SW USA, which is awesome. It would cut the USA off from the rest of the world even more, and we’d become the new…

The Minnesota Twins and Adrian Peterson are silently thanking Norwood for bumping their stories off the front page of the sports section. Sigh. Being a MN fan is rough business.

I think we can both agree that America was a much different place 50 years ago, and the NFL was a much different beast.

“semblance of evidence”? Dude, I’m posting on Deadspin at 9am with my morning coffee. If you want to do the research, by all means spend a year studying the effects of pink jerseys on female NFL fandom, and then let me know the results. Also, Professor Evidence, please clarify how many jerseys you exactly mean when…

Women watch the NFL games and go to NFL games because they like the NFL. If they don’t like it, selling them a pink Steelers jersey isn’t going to change their minds! Let women be regular fans and stop pushing this offensive tripe on them.

Also of note in the picture: the visitor’s locker room at Wrigley Field is awful.

Maybe in the batters box it would enable a player to get hit by a pitch more easily? Or at least, perceived.

For anyone interested, here’s a shot of the MLB Uniform Code posted in the visitor’s clubhouse in Chicago. For a larger image click here.

Ahhh! I love PD James and those detective stories, I listen to the audiobooks religiously. I didn’t know she was a woman until recently - the same day I found out she’d died (2014). RIP to a great author. She’s certainly entertained this male fan.

I am talking about a man competing in women’s gymnastic events, with women’s rules, with women competitors. How did you miss that point?

Not in women’s gymnastics. You think men can do all those flippity flops and balance on that beam? A man would get crushed by the competition in a women’s gymnastics meet.

He’s also got a GREAT blog. Super insightful, he’s really a great dude:

Those Mexican fans suck. They were throwing bottles and cans earlier in the tournament against Trinidad & Tobago, it was unbelievable behavior for a match of this level. To see it happen again, CONCACAF needs to take serious action. I live in Guatemala and you wouldn’t see anything close to that here, even in our Liga…

He’s drinking before practice. We’re talking about practice, man. Practice. Not a game, not a game. Practice. Joking aside...

Yeah man, as a recovering alcoholic I wish the same for Ty. I can’t imagine getting out of treatment and then stepping into an arena filled with 20,000 people! I wonder sometimes if guys like Lawson and Manziel simply need to take a break for a year after getting clean. There are a lot of temptations out there for the…

The fans immediately leaving the stadium (seen at 0:32) is great. Also, that train whistle blowing right after the home run made me think this game was in Seattle. Was that some kind of sound effect by the broadcast team, or just terrible timing on behalf of a Detroit engineer?

I had loud neighbors in Chicago, moved to Central America and I have loud neighbors here. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had quiet, polite neighbors anywhere in my vicinity. I am beginning to think that Quiet Neighbors do not actually exist. I’ve been thinking about getting a place in the middle of nowhere…