Spending a ton of money on something of moderate value just to send it to a big trash pile? I thought the Canucks already did that with Louis Eriksson.

Right?

Man this Serena thing is pretty crazy.  

Eh...you know, it’s a whole thing.

What happened to you? Jimgray in the gray? 

A third option is that Williams was intentionally ratcheting up the situation in a fruitless attempt to heighten her own level of play and intensity, and to intimidate her young opponent, because those things have worked in the past. They didn’t work yesterday.

Coaching is one of those “pitching-pine-tar” things where it is illegal but never called unless super egregious. However, Serena is utterly to blame for Bo Jackson’ing her racket that got her the second violation, and that’s where you have to be mindful that you’re on the cusp of a game violation and maybe not…

If you were watching you saw Serena actually thank Ramos for hearing her out after the first warning. At that point she had moved ahead in the 2nd set. But after having her serve broken and falling behind again she smashed her racket and started up again with Ramos. In every sport there are penalties for this type of…

It was actually a legit call, at least as far I’ve understood from most analysis. With the first caution, it is irrelevant if Serena saw the sign from the coach or not, just that the coach did what he did. And the second is apparently a pretty rare action, but I haven’t seen that many arguments against it. And once…

Is this like “Netflix and chill” for germaphobes?

Well, he said it out loud to a member of the ESPN announcing crew on live TV and every person who watched the match saw and heard him say it into a microphone: “Yes, I was coaching her.”

Can we please stop with the Serena worship? She’s a titan of tennis, a superb athlete, but she’s not without flaws, without her faults. She’s petulant, and this isn’t the first or worst instance of abusing an official in her career.

Here he is taking no crap from Novak

You're an idiot. 

holy sheepshit, no wonder he thinks Flyers are a threat

In the interest of fairness, Booth sustained a likely life-altering brain injury here:

Wouldnt this, uh, be grounds for a suspension or something

Nice work Deadspin. I come for the dick jokes, but I stay for the hard, throbbing investigative journalism. 

I didn’t realize until just looking it up that Milwaukee has a higher murder rate and violent crime rate than Chicago. I guess the big difference between the two cities is that Chicago actually has areas that people want to visit.