Have you ever heard of the Vietnam war?
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Lol @ scoffing at denouncing the Vietnam war and racism as legitimate criticisms of LBJ. How’s taking THAT line working for you?
This is a monumentally stupid response. Like, 6th grade level understanding of governance and society stupid.
unreal/very happy here
SB Nation is dog trash. (Feel free to use “dog trash.” I want it to proliferate as a term for describing things that fully suck.) I’m a Boston-based writer and editor who, when the “job” opened up a few months ago, “applied” to be the blog manager for the Stanley Cup of Chowder (SB Nation’s Bruins blog). I’ve got a…
As my screen name might suggest, I am not very happy about this decision.
Way too good looking to be a beast imo
This is a good and fair response that I, even as a non-Sox fan, can get behind. (Note: my whole family is made up of Sox fans, so I have an intimate understanding of how miserable—but oddly lovable, somehow—you all are. That said, I love Ortiz more than any player I’ve ever watched. His rise began my senior year in…
Fair enough. However, to your point re: the DH...it IS part of the game, though. To say his career would have been unremarkable if the DH wasn’t a thing (again, fair, maybe it would have been unremarkable) is to say that chicken nuggets would be unremarkable if chicken wasn’t a thing. The DH exists; Ortiz excelled as…
I just don’t think it matters that he’s been a DH for the bulk of his career. Saying a DH shouldn’t be allowed in the HoF because he only plays half the game is like saying a closer shouldn’t be allowed in the HoF because he only pitches 70 or so innings a season. Consideration for the HoF should not be dictated by…
He is a DH. DH is a part of the game. Therefore, he is part of the game. Also, you just showed your hand by saying “A-Rod DH’d for *us*.” A Yankees fan being anti-Ortiz? Shocking.
It’s a *part of the game that exists. And come on, dude—a lot of DHs these days are strict DHs. I can’t understand what is effectively baseless penalization of a dude for doing what he’s paid (handsomely) to do, especially when he’s perhaps the very best to ever do it.
The “He only played half the game” argument is a bad argument. DH is A POSITION THAT EXISTS IN THE GAME. Why someone should be penalized/scrutinized for playing an actual position that is actually part of the actual game of baseball is beyond me. It’s the worst argument. And David Ortiz is perhaps the best to ever…
Uhhhh. He’s tenth on the all-time doubles list...
Whipping out my little dinger should have been a strong enough warning.
Not to be a stickler, here, but functional piano keys are like 99 percent of the practical difference between a piano and a boulder.
How terribly shitty is that Italian Euro ‘16 roster? It’s as terribly shitty as it looks, right?
Original Six in scare quotes is making me giggle. It’s as if you’re saying they weren’t *really* part of the “Original Six.” Your comment is a very dumb comment.
This might be my favorite comment in Deadspin history. And I’ve been reading/writing inane comments on Deadspin for a loooonnnngggg time. Nice work.