You are still tanking but now you are tanking with a hometown star to keep season tickets sales up while also spending the escalating salary cap floor money. #Kobetanking

Outside of competing clergymen vying to be the next Pope, no one cheers more for the demise of Cardinals than the Deadspin community. Amen for that.

Boycotts hurt. They’re meant to. They hurt people who are not directly responsible for, are likely ambivalent to, and may be outright opposed to, the cause of the boycott. It’s pretty much inevitable, and again, you could argue that they’re meant to do this. (They also frequently inconvenience or hurt the people…