So then we’re agreed the Lions and Patriots are off the hook for not looking into Matt Patricia’s background. Good to know. Also, I could be wrong, but I believe “observing & reporting” *could* include, ya know, reporting on someone’s background. But if “reporting facts” is now “interceding in cases”, then I apologize

“Sorry we missed the previous murder charges, we just didn’t think looking into someone’s criminal background ahead of reporting on criminal charges made sense”. Good to know

Or - OR - it *is* a fuck up on every organization that reported on this but didn’t do a background check. And the argument “well no one else noticed so it’s fine” is an incredibly fucking stupid argument to make. But it seems like you’re 110% committed to saying that Deadspin did no wrong here, so instead, have a…

So are you saying that it’s ok the Lions missed that shit about Matt Patricia because it hadn’t been reported yet? Because if you’re going to sit around and say “background checks are super easy, you’d be an idiot to not run one before something major”, then it cuts both ways. Should they run a background check on…

Counterpoint: when you can’t adjust your strategy to keep up with Ty Lue, you expose yourself to a good chance of getting fired

I grew up in Eldersburg and this is supremely not surprising. I also have a family friend who posted an Instagram pic by the reservoir with a BB gun she found. Turns out, her pic had the front corner of a sheriff cruiser in the background. It also turns out the sheriffs look at geotagged IGs in the area and sent cops…

Chris Davis is Schrödinger’s Jay Gibbons, in that he’s both a lot better & obscenely worse than Gibbons. The real question is, who’s the current iteration of Robert Andino so I can shit talk all my Boston friends

Hey now, the games aren’t completely pointless! Each loss brings Manny closer to the sweet release of a trade, & potentially for Jones & Schoop as well. And then we get to revert back to another 16 years of buying nosebleed seats & moving down in the 3rd inning, laughing at how terrible everyone on the roster is, &…

This is both really interesting & extremely useless, thank you for giving me the exact type of article I crave

Well the situation also matters. If it’s the bottom of the 9th in a tie game, 1 run wins it so it doesn’t matter how many people score. But in any other situation, the number of runs scored DOES matter - if you’re going against an elite closer, it’d be much better to only be down 1 than by 3. This also doesn’t take…

Im just glad the only doper on the Tour has been brough to justice

To be fair to the criminals, Kubota makes some real nice equiptment 

I don’t know about that. I mean yea, part of the implosion could poor leadership, but it could also be an outright refusal to sign free agents, compounded by whiffing on draft picks, mixed with an offensive system that requires the QB to throw his receivers open, and topped off with the atrocity that was Dom Capers as…

If you got the money, the Marlins are for the bookin?

Jokes on you pal - every Wizards fan at home looked a lot worse, just none of us were on ESPN

IMHO this is very selfish of him. Look through all of Celtic history and I seriously doubt you’ll find an example of banged up PG playing through an injury, only to make things a lot worse & cost himself millions on his next contract

Classic Pitino, finishing before anything was even firm

Makes sense a member of the clergy would prefer the NCAA over the NBA, they’re huge fans of underage people

I mean, there’s also the fact that he has become fantastically wealthy from a company that doesn’t actually produce much, and whenever he’s asked about he’ll switch to discussing SpaceX/the hyperloop/deleting Facebook so people stop asking why the fuck he keeps bilking people of their money

Hey I’m also an O’s fan! If you pay attention, every single entrance to seats has a sign warning fans to keep an eye out for foul balls, including waaaay up in the nosebleeds that used to be my home. You know why? Because a lot of shit can happen. Is it likely that something would hit me up there? Of course not! Am I…