But it turns out Acuña’s own teammates are mad at him over a completely different baserunning issue

I mean, if Acuna had pointed at Martinez and done the D-X crotch chop towards him, you might have a point. Taking an extra couple of seconds to admire the fact that you just hit a baseball halfway to the moon doesn’t exactly qualify as poor sportsmanship in my book.

Probably because Trump does not have nearly enough money that he says he does. If you get outbid by Jon Bon Jovi for the Buffalo Bills, something is seriously amiss. 

It was a group that Trump was too scummy for, but Jimmy Haslam wasn’t too scummy for. Really says a lot about the entire sordid enterprise.

I can’t tell if the hair is fake or the face is fake.

The holy grail of Scorigami!

Final score this weekend 4-4.

I would really love to live in a world where at the end of the season both of those teams are 0-15-1

I guess it’s his commercial, but the nickname strikes me as pejorative:

Just looked ahead in the schedule and saw that next week sees what will be an 0-5 Washington head to Miami. There have been worse matchups, certainly, but not many.

Professional sports in the US, where billionaires can cry pauper and fuck over the taxpayers into funding their stadiums (while collecting all profits) and be seen as victims when players hold out for more money. No wonder Trump wanted to be an NFL owner so bad. 

Yeah, this issue came up on the Salty Waitress column over on the Takeout a couple weeks ago.

Speaking as pro-employee, restaurants should integrate the costs of employee health insurance into their pricing. Restaurants who insist on this surcharge are, as you say, just passive-aggressively complaining about…

I want to see his fucking tip.

It’s not so much that “there is no catch,” or “you can never control the ball” so much as “the distinction between catch and non-catch, or between receiver and ball for that matter, are meaningless and deluded.”

Said before, will say again: keep replay review, but get rid of slow-motion, zoom-in replay. Sports happen fast, and stuff can get missed, so there should be a remedy for the clearly, obviously wrong calls. But turning sports into the parsing of high-def, 120 FPS imagery removes any semblance of art from the games.

Yes, this, there cannot be an expectation of complete fairness because such a state simply can’t exist, even within a highly regulated and enclosed loop like sports.

Great read. I think theres a moral argument against replay having to do with our conceptions of fairness. (Its a bit more legal than classically philosophical but bear with me.)

he surely means here to say Zapruder film

Woah woah woah, let pump the brakes on the whole “genius” thing.

the Redskins now look like geniuses