and we’re supposed to see him as this hero who takes on the burden of illness by himself by selling drugs.

I realize that hating on enforcement of any rule of any sort is Deadspin’s schtick, but this is a no-brainer. You can’t outright state that you were doing anything bordering on actively recruiting an under-contract player without it sounding like tampering. Judge seems to understand, but that seems par for the course…

Then Paterno was removed, and O’Brien comes in. Hackenberg regresses.

Most notably, “Who’s Now?”

Don’t let facts and reason get in the way of righteous takes.

“Follow-up question,’Do your parents know you’re sexist?’”

Exactly what I was thinking. There’s definitely an art to trying to coax out attitudes in survey research, as you cannot simply ask, “are you sexist” as a predictor.

Morris’s telephone answering email reminds me of this gem of a post:

It’s Deadspin, let people make their completely unsubstantiated hot takes... /s

I think it’s more about avoiding the luxury tax this year to avoid repeater penalties should they go all out on the Harpers and Machados of the world next season.

Chase Headley, David Wright, Ryan Zimmerman

I know where the quote comes from. Sorry for misunderstanding, but it was hard to tease out the meaning there (or that it was a joke, apparently), specifically considering the thread to this point.

You know that the hr department is about the company first?

It’s almost like different leadership styles are appropriate for different settings. I can’t believe that those leadership scholars were correct all along!

History is written by the victors.

Also a bit sheisty to omit the “verbal” in the headline.

How would you suggest collections of humans acting toward a common purpose operate? If you have a workable model to propose, I’m sure you could make quite a bit of money explaining it.

Of course, the Spanish Civil War, the go-to reference for textbook leadership archetypes...

For God’s sake we’ve got to stop writing this stuff off. People with hair trigger tempers have absolutely no place in a leadership position.

TBF, being without Justin Jackson hurt a lot (and Ivan Bender to a lesser degree).