"Cabrera got faster after losing 20 pounds during the offseason. "

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

" Then he'd announce his retirement, then unretire, then retire again, then unretire, and then retire again after everyone has had just about enough and bloggers like me have written numerous columns with headlines like "CAN BATMAN JUST GO THE FUCK AWAY ALREADY"?"

The whole point here is that the athlete have a prominence for actual athletic achievement, not just "prominent" for coming out.

More to the point, focusing on this type of "dumb" racism makes us lose focus on the real discrimination that happens in our country.

Don't you all think we're using Twitter comments as too literal of a measuring stick of overall sentiments?

Thanks, Grantland!

Bullshit.

It would probably run out of battery just after it left orbit...

"and upset as I was through 3 pregnancies"

You're Gizmodo now, you're not allowed to believe in coincidences anymore.

Come on, are you going to call out Jon Heyman without noting that you made a similar comment yourself in an earlier post?

Oh, my god! How did you get my social security number? Do you also have my birthday of May 18, 1979? Or my mother's maiden name of Stevenson? As the author notes, identity theft is a serious issue. Please take down this comment immediately!!!

Were there any stunts you determined were too dangerous to try? (or were told by producers not to attempt?)

This is what some one with the mindset of Bill James would do.

"but instead got entire narratives, pouring personality and anecdotes into what are otherwise just buildings."

"These guys deliberately make a mess for the express purpose of never being asked to do whatever it is again."

I am concerned that the author (and apparently the rest of the Deadspin office) is too young to remember Forrest Gump as anything more than a movie about a guy that "went jogging and got really shaggy".

This just raises the question of why you are checking in at mundane places "that are otherwise just boring" in the first place...

"And if your conclusion is that women are people..."