“So if the only team that would sign a player like JD Mart for a big time contract is the Red Sox, they can hold out for the absolute lowest price.”

(which would mean that talkradio douchebags have taken over)

“He also signed Desmond Bryant who I’m PRAYING he thought was Dez Bryant.”

Right, and unlike in the Jesse James example, he re-directed the momentum of the ball, which clearly illustrates control. He was not in one continuous motion to the ground like James.

This is a tired contrarian take.

Let me tell you about the concept of a prenup...

Maybe, I guess. Things “are” across four dimensions, three physical and one linear dimension, “time.”

Nothing quite as thrilling as hearing about other people NOT doing/watching something, AMIRITE? Heck, they’re so uninterested they just keep tellin ya’.

The reason that is going way under the radar is the normalizing of aging curves post-steroid era. Teams aren’t getting the same longevity out of these guys.

compared to other sports where players get paid top dollar 3-4 years into the league at the ripe age of 20-25

“Real football” is the stupidest argument going, in my opinion. Rugby football, association football (“soccer”), gridiron/American football, Gaelic football, etc. are all valid forms of “football.” The term football, the English variety at least, actually has nothing to do with using one’s feet. Instead, it has to do…

So Deadspin has completed its transformation, no? They have tossed aside all vestiges of being a sports blog with this anti-sports-on-TV in bars take I would think.

“I think a clock is the apt metaphor... it bounces up and down and randomly sounds that AWOOOOOOGA horn”

• Dan Steinberg voluntarily stepped back from blogging this week to do more editing at the Washington Post and I just wanna get into the Congrats Media Canoe for a moment and tell you that Steinberg lived the BLOG LYFE for over a decade, and nobody was better at it. Steinz helped pioneer the kind of breezy, wildly…

verything you say is true, but I just can’t get over the concept of using a dead language phrase to say X, when you can just say X instead.

+1 Bugle Boy on backorder

Hey! They have Malcolm!

To be fair, Brett Favre’s brand was always NYC/Silicon Valley hotshot who didn’t give a shit about how things used to be in the “good ol’ days.” He was the jaded millenial who didn’t look like he was having any fun out there (on the field). John Madden hated him.

Nah, they’re a family office according to their website. Likely someone in their family made serious money at some point.

“Ha, you fuckers believe in that bullshit?”