Welcome to Deadspin, where the writers hate every team. It's kinda their bit. You look kinda silly bitching about the Patriots, as they probably get as much respect, if not more, than any other team does on here.

im a patriots fan and honestly deadspin could be a lot worse to the pats

I love how you think I'm an elitist for telling people they don't need a huge, expensive piece of specialized cooking equipment. That is goddamn hilarious.

Dan Shaughnessy.

I have watched Dr Who since the Pertwee/T. Baker years.
I have lost count of the people of various genders who have bought up the question of when the doctor will change genders and or colour, since my childhood. It is not a new question.
However, I am awfully glad it didn't occur under Moffat. I am no great fan of his…

I didn't want a female Doctor and I'm really tired of people telling me I'm a traitor to my sex and a shitty feminist because I don't think it's a big deal. I'm disappointed and annoyed that this had to become a gender/race issue. No excuse would have been good enough. A vocal minority showed up with pitchforks and…

Do George Will! DO GEORGE WILL!

Well, he is not awful, and that's why he's awful. His brand is "reasonableness" even at the expense of conservatism. ("Of course I don't really believe that extreme position I believe. I just want America to be great.")

I don't read his column

Brooks has this incredibly elitist view about what it means to be a real American. It seems like he thinks the real Americans reside in places like Overland Park, Kansas, and Dallas-FW satellite suburbs, eat at Olive Garden, drive pickups and shop at Home Depot.

Brooks, lives in a wealthy enclave of Washington D.C.…

I think Tim's point is that drawing an arbitrary line between certain drugs and other certain drugs is the first step toward the stupid situation we're currently witnessing.

No one cared when players were routinely popping amphetamines from a communal bowl in the clubhouse. No one bats an eye when players get loaded…

Okay, so Schilling is your poster image, but here's a problem: Toradol is not a PED. Toradol is an NSAID.

I certainly can't deny that I'm a Yankees fan—I'm currently wearing an a-rod shirtsey in fact—but I've written the same stuff about Braun and Manny, too. And I'd like to think that if, say, Albert Pujols got railroaded like this, I'd do the same. I am just so over the entire PED...thing and the accompanying weirdo…

When you remember that George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball for paying a mob agent to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield to get out of some contractually-owed money, it seems solidly in the realm of the possible.

I'll play devil's advocate, or in this case, tinfoil hat advocate. Which shady franchise is going to try "accidentally" slipping some PEDs into an underperforming star so they can get out of a bad contract. Maybe have the physical therapist slip in a little of the cream on a rub down?

Selig is also the only man on Earth with both the power and ineptitude necessary to turn A-Rod into a folk hero.

Tangentially related: http://pbfcomics.com/59/

The term "non-analytical positive" has been thrown around a lot in this case. It seems to me that a non-analytical positive is actually flimsier evidence than an analytical positive, or a failed test. Can you explain if/why it makes sense that a player could be suspended for something "less than" a failed test above…