Don’t worry, as a 29 year old I’ve been taught just how terrible the Glen Davis trade was. My dad would bring it up to make the Albert Belle fiasco seem better by comparison

What can I say, I run in a group of dudes who believe that giving large contracts to aging power hitters is very dumb (hi Ryan Howard!) & that bullpen arms are extremely fungible & should be sold at their high point unless your team is in contention

Haha I can assure you that Andino never had a nice streak of games as an Oriole. He spent the entire year striking out, fucking up bunts, and being (at best) adequate in the field. I would guess our Red Sox fan who’s still bitter is mainly bitter because he’s friends with all of us, who are proud assholes who love…

What O’s fans were telling you this wasn’t going to be a bad contract? All of my friends reacted to the news with a series of 4 letter words, shots of Jameson, & blocking all texts from our friend who’s a Red Sox fan & who’s still bitter about Robert Andino

Upper level management ignoring people in the lab who actually understand the technical details of a test? This is certainly shocking to me!

*sigh*....

Good point, I forgot that scoring more points doesn’t correlate to winning. My b

I dunno, they lost by 13, and 12 of those points came from Boston hitting 4 more 3s. I’m not saying playing Korver more would have guaranteed a win, but I don’t think its crazy to think he could have made it close enough for LeBron to activate his Destroyer of Worlds mode

My favorite part of the game was Ty Lue saying Korver didn’t play a lot because Semi Ojeleye didn’t play much & that was Korver’s match up. I can’t wait for game 6, where LeBron won’t start since Morris is on the bench & that’s his match up

You know you’re doing something right when Laura Wagner feels the need to run a hit piece

It looks like John Elway & Gary Busey had a truly terrifying child

My guess is because an error doesn’t really correlate to anything the player does. Generally a hard hit ball that’s gonna be hard to catch but bounces off a fielder’s glove will get credited as a hit. An error is usually when someone flubs a popup, kicks a grounder, or is Mark Reynolds at 3rd for the O’s - none of…

Yea I’m consistently guilty of ramming 2 separate issues into 1 problem in my mind. I guess in this case part of your viewpoint is from Baltimore Sun crime reporters. They do a great job of not delving introverts everyone’s background, but for big stories they find any relevant from the pasts of defendants, accusers,…

That’s fair, and if I cam across saying the 2 are essentially the same then I apologize. What I was trying to say (and got lost along the way) is that a cursory background check should be ran on any major event. Hiring a head coach, hiring an executive for a company, political nominations, and yes, high profile court…

How about this - you clearly have no interest what soever in arguing this, you just wanna keep screaming I AM RIGHT AND THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE ROOM, REALITY WILL BEND TO MY WILL. So have a nice life, and enjoy the fish

Because - and follow me here for a minute - lots of people fucked up. Maybe they didn’t run the background check. Maybe they did & didn’t write anything because they were afraid of people like you harassing them & their paper for having the audacity to report on something. Maybe it’s because they didn’t want to be…

So here’s the thing - court reporters actually DO look into the backgrounds of stories like this. This is a high profile case, involving an issue that’s on the forefront of a lot of people across the country. Saying “that’s not a thing ANY journalist would do for a story like this” is a total crock of shit. I…

So you’re saying reports don’t need to do any research before publishing an article? Because this isn’t a new story - Deadspin 1st reported on it back on February 11. If no one had done any research right in the beginning, I could understand that. But when 3 months pass & no one has done any research into the story,…

If its as easy as Deadspin has said it is, then yes. I could be wrong (famous last words), but it sounds like they just need to plug the person’s name into Nexus (or something similar) to get results. I think it’s also pretty important because letting someone make an accusation that is that serious will always cast…

And I do have a problem with that! If she had been arrested for possession, tax evasion, or a whole slew of other crimes, then it wouldn’t be news worth & there would be no reason to report on it. But if you’re going to report on a domestic violence case, then a previous arrest for lying about DV *is* important! Think…