Outstanding.

To be fair to ESPN ( I know, I know), they have something smack dab front and center about this on the the front page of their website right now.

Is he a strange dude......FRONT, BACK, SIDE TO SIDE????

He didn’t do anything. The false accusation was part of an attempted extortion.

Once the ninth batter completes his at bat. If the at bat is abandoned because of a caught stealing or pick off, it is not. So if the ninth batter makes the third out, the team batted around, but I would not use the term until the end of that bat.(“So the Cubs have batted around and up returns Anthony Rizzo” or “The…

So basically, the best way to avoid a farce of a game would be to have each team suit up as the other...

“7. NBA. Somehow even more fucking endless.”

Pastime. One word.

Baseball is a pastime from a past time. :)

I can live with 3+ hours for a football game because that commitment only comes up once a week for 4 months. For baseball, it’s 6-7 days a week for 6 months.

Spanish Flea is Deadspin house style.

Not a particularly useful comparison. It's more like Sandy Koufax refusing to pitch on Yom Kippur: you can admire and respect his commitment to his principles even if you don't personally adhere to them. Schilling doesn't have to deal with any adversity as a result of holding bonkers views, apart from the usual faux…

Also, I believe there is a difference between an atheist and an Atheist. One doesn't believe in religion or the existence of an all powerful god, the other makes it their religion to espouse the belief of a lack of god. Bill Maher, Dawkins, etc.... these people are Atheists.

Come on man. Put that away. Tim Howard deserved it.

In no particular order:

"You're demonstrably wrong yet I won't demonstrate how you're wrong."

I'm not GIF-capable, so can somebody else give this guy an RKO?

One word, if it's only metaphorical. Two words, if it's Delonte West.

"Well, as long as it's just FORMER players...but we're monitoring the situation closely."