White anxiety over identity is so real and toxic. These people are actually doing all this shit and enacting all this policy because they’re afraid of America becoming a less white nation... in the future... when they’ll all be fucking dead. Despite the fact that we need immigration to keep our working adult populatio…

I want to share this on Facebook and unfriend everyone that says anything bad about it. The Bautista Bat Flip is way better than any political litmus test. If you hate this, I probably hate you.

Dear Deadspin,

In all seriousness, I love that to “baseball guys”, the difference between Acceptable Home Run Reaction and He Used The Leg Bone Of Hitler To Rape A Puppy is literally less than 3 seconds.

Don’t forget Ronald Reagan. Man never once hit a home run, out of respect for the game.

I know this is two different sports but when james harden murdered ricky rubio’s ankle last year with a nasty crossover and then hit the three on him Rubio didn’t get but hurt about it. And Harden did his signature three point sign clearly showing him up but no one said “ hey James Harden you deserve a clothesline…

Did the rules of baseball change?
I thought hitting a home run was the opposite of being shitty at your job.
I thought losing by 9 runs means you’re being shitty at your job.
Maybe you’re defending people who are shitty at their jobs, because you’re one. Solidarity and all that.
Am I applying your “logic” correctly?

When you intentionally walk a batter and the next batter hits a homerun, yeah that guy is going flip the fucking bat and enjoy it, because by not pitching to the hitter ahead of him, you are declaring him to be a shitty hitter. And a hitter will almost always take offense to that.

Deadspin goes farther than I would in automatically castigating baseball’s (yes, at times dumb) unwritten rules. Being a cocky shit isn’t the same thing as having fun (I’d never rip raw emotion), and there are elements of the culture that to me are kind of baby/bathwater situations.