Alright, stop it. We're talking about a few adults bringing in ringers from the South Burbs and other parts of the city to form a super team. That's really where the story ends. The South Side of Chicago desperately needs our attention. We don't need the story of the sports equivalent of Stage Moms as a lens to…

" If we're trying to force change in how the system works, we don't need any input in the conversation from racist or clueless people. "

The fact that you're equating the actions of sworn criminals with police officers says it all.

When did Will Leitch start doing color commentary for Div II?

I despise the man, but Rush Limbaugh totally nails it when he described mainstream television news as a "drive-by media." This is a great example.

Humorlessness like this will surely help baseball lower the median World Series view's age to AT LEAST 73.

I also think the old locker room celebrations in sports were 100x cooler.

Never has anyone better explained this issue than Dolphins CEO Mike Dees:

Notice the veiled reference to the idea that "someone has convinced him" to come out.

This is another trope I've been seeing. "It's not that we are homophones - it's that the shadowy cabal of libruls is pushing this down our throats! We don't care either way - it's the media who cares!"

Do you think a new NFL owner comes into the job understanding the "public stewardship" expectation fans have for individuals running a professional sports franchise? Is there really a divide in the thinking on this role between the old NFL families (e.g. Roooney, McCaskey) and new owners like Snyder?

+1

holy shit that's funny

Put it this way: You were a dumbass if you supported a team whose owner refused to put home games on television through A.D. 2009.

Having lived through it, I can tell you that Ditka was most definitely a Hail Mary suggestion. I don't think anyone thought Ditka would have been anything other than a long shot. They could not find anyone to run against Obama after Jack Ryan bounced out.

I think that's right. I think he wanted her to do it, but she was not into it. It came up during the divorce proceedings.

What's funny is that I always thought he did not need to drop out of the race. In fact, I remember there was a point-of-view (that I subscribed to at the time) that Ryan got out of the race to…

Ahhhhh yes. I was beginning to think that this delicious bit of political trivia had been lost to history. For some background, the original Republican nominee — Jack Ryan — was forced to get out of the Senate race with Obama because his leaked divorce papers detailed Ryan's preference for engaging in public sex…

Drew's quote says that we're not allowed to go into "bullshit marketplace analysis of a show over the show itself." Why? In the Bieber piece (which I loved btw), Drew discussed the "brand" of Bieber more than he did the "music itself." What's the difference?

"It doesn't work, and it places an emphasis on the bullshit marketplace analysis of a show over the show itself. It's expanding the water cooler conversation to a two-hour postgame show with eight moron analysts babbling on about absolutely nothing."

/ says writer who wrote the following words in his 10,000 word opus…

I am a Deadspin loyalist, but the insistence on promoting the counternarrative at all times gets to be as stale as the narrative. Look, Braun cheated. Did baseball cross the line in the investigation? That's possible But Ryan Braun also ruined a guy's life last year to get off on a technicality. I think it's…

Agreed. He's got a lot of work to do, especially getting rid of the verbal tic he has to follow every sentence with "right?".