On the bright side, the controversy has, as always, inspired elevated discourse on Twitter as people of goodwill take a stand against homophobia.

Flyover Country? Did you think your little jab at Minnesota adds anything to your point. You're a dumb little shit.

Don't worry, you totally failed to bring up well thought points.

Don't worry, you totally failed to bring up well thought points.

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting that. Nor was I expecting Tim Duncan to have such a dead-on Steven Wright impression.

This is good, Tim. But there's a tiny bit of me that's sad today. I realized that many, many baseball writers — many of whom I admired for their written words — are completely out-of-touch and, via wagon-circling, have widen the already-widening gap between fans and journalists. There was a time when fans and…

Right, because the entire post above our comments isn't about the voting process at all.

The defensive writers keep saying this (Doyel), but it's nonsense. It's speculation about the motives behind the move. Deadspin and Dan spelled out the motives — you're free to call them liars, I guess. But it's irrelevant. It's ignoring A) the issue (that these writers can't put together a ballot criteria that's…

These BBWAA assholes really need to chill. As evidenced, a public ballot for millions of different opinions essentially voted in the same players these jerkoffs did. Are they mad because the public got to vote or because the public proved we're as smart as they are?

The Hall of Fame, according to the BBWAA, is the "highest honor" for both voters and players. Dan Le Batard, apparently, feels that "a little anarchy in this cathedral we've made of sports" is more important than that honor.Ok.

I mean, yeah. They saved $1.2 million, and got similar production. But I don't think many teams ordinarily put that much thought into the punter position, beyond getting a guy that won't shank a bunch of them. I'm guessing, though, that the Vikings had more than enough money to pay that contract, and it's not like…

Why are we not mentioning the fact that the new punter was a 5th round draft pick? That's absolutely absurd and unheard of. There is no logical reason for that decision other than to assure Kluwe would not be playing in the next season. This, to me, is massively weighty evidence for their eagerness to unload Kluwe.

I think Perk just copy and pasted his comment from Riley Cooper's instagram.

Except for the fact that the Vikings are not struggling for cap space. Going into 2013 they were actually coming in below the new "floor" (i.e. cumulative base salary) by a couple milly.

"No perc? Well, I don't care that I wasn't invited, either."

"As a man who strives to uphold the level of professionalism and dedication that I've maintained throughout my coaching career, as well as a family man focused on my wife and children, I can say quite honestly that I was disgusted and disturbed by what I saw on the website Deadspin-dot-com this morning. I mean, did…

I want to be clear that I do not tolerate discrimination of any type and am respectful of all individuals.

Not if it's the difference between 5-10-1 vs. 8-8 (which could've won that division).