Well then those 2 guys reading the paper will definitely want to leave when Henderson comes up.

I'm speechless

My my, a bit touchy. Making fun of people for doing foolish things is the backbone of the internet. Welcome.

Right, and in this case, those fans were spectacularly bad at math. They invested the significant time and money for this game, and bailing on the last 30 seconds to save 15 minutes is ridiculous even when you discount the joy of a dramatic comeback by the likelihood of it happening. OK, sure, there's always the…

I don't want to interrupt the argument you're having with yourself, but we're two dozen comments in, and no one has said that.

Shocker that an owner is financially motivated.

If any of you have never been on Jezebel, this type of comment shows up all the time. Article about the dangers of being too skinny? Someone will boast about being super skinny and totally awesome. Article about being overweight? Someone will boast about being huge but healthy and funny and awesome and totally able…

Amen to this. Is there really no one at Deadspin who represent that point of view? Sports have rules, I'm not sure why it's such a big deal to expect players to operate within them.

+1

This is all fine, but doesn't really fit here because we're not talking about baseball's "head-in-the-sand" period. We're talking about MLB being overaggressive now.

"Probably cold comfort for Marc Staal, who missed all but one game in the Rangers' final three months."

Yeah, this article was witty when it first showed up back when sports blogging began in the mid to late 90's. Back before the public explosion of fantasy sports, online sports sites, cable season packages, and statistical analysis.

Those current fans are not going to bail because of rebranding. They'll have stayed through a boatload of losing, Wang's BS, a move, and lockouts. People always overstate the importance of the colors/log