Not the rationale. The rule.

You are wrong. Next time you watch a game, pay attention to which plays actually result in a clock stoppage and which are ruled this way. The routine ones at different times in the game that nobody ever talks about. I don’t know if I love the rule - that play (and all the others like it that occur several times in…

Vox Media’s own commitment to obfuscating the team site network model—which, as Bell surely knows, is entirely different from Deadspin’s Kinja platform.

is there anything cooler than a car with a manual that nobody who wants a manual would ever buy

More that there’s increasingly less marginal loss to the team attempting to jump the snap as finely as possible. The first one was a killer. The second one seemed almost deliberate, and the third there was no ‘almost’. The shortest FG you can attempt is gonna be about 19 yards. The difference in expected accuracy for…

Deadspin isn’t selling my comment as content to advertisers

The random variation of which divisions you play has MUCH more impact than the 2 games you play against quality-matched teams.

This season they’ll play
- their 6 divisional games
- the NFC East - mediocre top to bottom
- AFC East - three dumpsters and they already beat the Pats
- 2 games against the other 2017 AFC…

She was unfailingly terrific in a few-episode spot in The New Girl.

Dude. No. Read it again.

‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. 1:18 AM - 16 Oct 2015. 48,679 Retweets

‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. 1:18 AM - 16 Oct 2015. 48,679 Retweets

IT WAS NEVER BETWEEN ALEX SMITH AND AARON RODGERS. THAT PERCEPTION IS 100% HINDSIGHT. RODGERS WAS TAKEN LIKE FIVE THOUSAND PICKS LATER AND WAS NEVER IN CONSIDERATION FOR THE FIRST OVERALL PICK.

What? No.

Wasn’t Brothers Grimm supposed to be successful?

Okay, but jokes aside - I gotta say - that Copeland quote from the Post is genuinely inspirational. 

No. You can also be a just-alright team that has a weirdlygood year. The A’s lost the play-in game last season and they’re worse on paper than the M’s. Framing the success cycle as “you have to be at least as good as one of the best teams of our lifetime (last season’s Red Sox)“ to try to compete is just failing on…

I’m not an attorney, but I can let you know that you responded to the wrong comment.

Reading helps. I know it’s hard.

Great summary. Your biggest omission, I think:

don’t let David Brooks stay up late!