I picked up some old milled York 45s to finish out a set my dad had and they were all exactly 45.0 lbs, so I’m feeling great about switching out the calibrated ones. (I also bought a bunch of cheap Rep 45s when they were available two weeks ago...gonna just weigh ‘em, keep the ones closest to 45 and flip the rest,…

Those crappy CAP plates really messed up the market, hah. I bought and already sold some calibrated steel plates (I thought they’d be cool! But they were just annoying to actually get on my bar because I have such little space.) So I basically sold ‘em for what I got ‘em for, while other folks are selling those CAP…

Those milled York plates are insanely nice, though. My dad had an old set that I restored, each plate was at the exact right weight. I then bought a bunch of 45s to supplement, they were also 45.0 lb exactly.

Two weeks ago I was stuck in Chicago for a day b/c of flight cancellation. My hotel offered free admission to the gym next door, so I went over to do my weekly deadlift workout. (My main lift.)

Of all the things that have had the most impact over the last decade of like, forming me into the Person I Am Today, I think Deadspin is #1 on that list. 

I thought this was something new I fucked up today. But no! I was watching another video, one in the post that I clicked on and WANTED to watch and was wondering wtf the grumbling was in the background.

Announcer (Moose Johnston?) doing his best Tommy Wiseau impression.

Announcer (Moose Johnston?) doing his best Tommy Wiseau impression. 

Announcer (Moose Johnston?) doing his best Tommy Wiseau impression. 

Lots of drugs, you’d assume.

It wasn’t even mandatory!! He’s a very sensitive penis. 

It lifted at least two lines directly from other space movies - the “he was the best of us” was used to describe Pitt’s father here and Matt Damon in Interstellar, two space dudes that were alone and went nutso - and, uh, another one that I forgot because I’m already forgetting everything anyone said in this shitty…

Was she trying to say that America was one of the first countries to get rid of slavery? Because I mean, that’s also very not true. Took us a good long while!

If they blew it dead RIGHT as he fumbled, then I’d sorta be ok with it. Because at least in that case, a ref must’ve been fairly confident that it was an incomplete pass and killed the play immediately.

There’s no way he came up with it himself. I bet he lifted most of those. 

An officer unleashed pepper spray and smacked Bernard with a baton before he was captured, officials said.

I changed the Search key on my new Chromebook back to CAPS LOCK.

The more dire screams of “raise the roof!” ever heard in the club. 

The tinfoil hat thing is a bit much. Cool that she said she did it - never really see that much honesty from athletes - but jeez don’t take that bait. 

You’re right about doping. Especially a sport like swimming, where only two people make the Olympic team in each event once every four years, it’s plainly obvious that someone that came in 3rd the previous cycle would have almost everything to gain and really nothing to lose by just inhaling horse steroids.