Ben Simmons is exactly why one-dimensional players are an issue. He’s very good at lots of things, and he’s a great player when he can get into the lane against the Jared Dudleys of the world, but he can absolutely be shut down when teams game plan for him and have the personnel to deal with him. He’s Rondo, but 7…

Look, this is probably not a hill to die on. It’s not self-evident that Caster should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Testosterone is a performance-enhancing compound for sports (for men too) and, at some point, having too much of it does make a person physiologically different from women. I don’t think…

This is interesting and I sympathize, but I couldn’t help but laugh at Game Workers Unite offering “water and medical assistance”. These are highly paid tech workers going for a walk on a no-doubt pleasant (fuck you for your perfect weather California) weekday afternoon, with full support of the company. Not exactly an…

I think you’ve got the political thing right (aside from wanting more of it, which is just terrible), although I’d take it further: they’re just not good at it, and they really never have been. Old Weekend Update was great, mostly exclusively when Norm was doing it. It pretty much collapsed after he was fired and has…

This is a good comment. It’s not about denying someone their identity; it’s literally that she’s chemically different than the people she’s competing against, which gives her a huge advantage. Biological men can’t compete in women’s sports if they’re transitioning but haven’t gone through hormone therapy yet. They’d…

This comment is bad and dumb. In non-Deadspin speak, The Wall is not really overplayed because no one ever listens to most of it because it’s too depressing. Comfortably Numb, probably; Another Brick, maybe? But it’s not that overplayed, wasn’t exactly a choir (at least not a professional or trained one; just kids…

I suspect an AV-Club comment section may not have terribly high standards of proof. It’s not productive for them. People like this destroy any possible standards for right/wrong on their side (and also their own credibility) by conflating “academic who I erroneously think is associated with political parties I don’t…

This is a good and reasonable comment section, consistently making the single most obvious point that, not surprisingly, the article does not make: there is just no money in women’s hockey. It’d be one thing if there was a ton of revenue and owners were capturing all of it, but this is seemingly not the case here.…

Pretty much. People forget about inflation, so it’s an easy way to hide cost overruns, fraud and kick-backs, etc. On the plus side, their assumed inflation rate could have been a lot worse. Those numbers (6.2-6.9) suggest around 2.6% on average, which would be high and is unlikely to happen, but they could have gone…

How can you even pretend to take someone seriously who says he’s wondering if he can bear to bring a kid into the world in fucking America in 2019? This is literally the single best time and, arguably, place (a few other countries have cases to make) for a human being to be alive that has ever existed in human…

Hahaha somehow I missed that. That’s amazing though, and fully on-brand for Deadspin. Half these people are just cobbling together snippets of content from other places and applying a thin glue of bad writing to stick parts together. “Subject his performances to my own visual examination” is just terrible. Also, the…

Thank you for this. Just reading plot recaps of these things makes me roll my eyes. The only thing more absurd than self-serious comic book movies are the people who keep insisting that they’re just like other great movies and should be taken seriously. The same people that think that calling comic books graphic novels…

Absolutely. They are so, so committed to replacing Eli with another Eli. It’s really bizarre. The first Eli didn’t even work out that well. He’s Kirk Cousins with far better teams around him. And the Giants could have had the actual Kirk Cousins, who is the perfect successor to Eli. Consistently pretty good, paid like…

Fact. They also might not care though; as long as enough people pay it’s probably profitable to let piracy increase. And you only need to pirate the office and friends or w/e once. I assume consolidation will occur eventually (someone has to win), but this is going to a rough couple years for streaming services.…

Nah, they’re stuck. They clearly believe that one of them did it, which is why they made this statement (this is as close as the police can come to saying “one of these fuckers is guilty, but I can’t prove it”), but they also have no evidence because neither will talk and the kid is 3. In the absence of any other…

What? He’s just the president. Most of the country dislikes him. Nearly all major TV networks air hours of programming nightly mocking him. Most of his supporters think he’s a buffoon at best. He won an election by accident and by astonishing incompetence on the part of his opponent. Exalted is pretty much the last…

That one was phenomenal. And Trump definitely sucks at hiring lawyers. He still employs Giuliani, who seems like he’s half senile and spends his time wandering around aimlessly causing unnecessary problems for his single most significant client. He’s kind of like the Mr. Magoo of lawyers.

Yup. This one. A tolerable female candidate would have won easily. Hillary was not that woman.

How the fuck was his fee $1 million to begin with? He was already inexplicably getting 1/3 of the total settlement for doing... something ... before he stole the rest? Is there seriously no world in which they could have hired a sane lawyer to handle this for like 1/10 of the cost? 

Nicely done. Although it was annoying. The obscure Jim Henson Hour selection kind of bails them out for having pop culture knowledge limited to ‘things I watched on TV or Netflix over the past few years’. In some ways it’s a tough problem, because the best known shows are probably also the best, but it can help to…