It was the shock of seeing it written down. NBA salaries are insane compared to MLB.

Bruh.

The real heroes are on the internet questioning the toughness of the players.

Oh look, the “soccer players are soft” guy has logged on.

You do realize that your implication here is that Niang decided to act himself out of the game so that Senegal would have to play one man down for that time? Which, you know, ain’t exactly tactical mastery?

+1 BOO-URNS

Those things tend to be auto generated the minute you put a ticket in and the system gets to your email. After that is when someone gets around to actually reading the email. It’s pretty standard when you have thousands of email a day pouring in. A lot of people are not smart enough to look up the solution themselves…

I work in IT and my first job was providing first level support in a call center environment. I liken this experience to how people say everyone should wait tables at least once in their life so you can understand what it’s like to be in the shoes of the people serving you. While i was working this job, I got called…

http://m.mlb.com/statcast/leaderboard#hr-distance

I’m convinced that if Tiger got back into his old habits of being a manwhore, he’d immediately be at the top of his game again.

In the catcher’s defense, that jerk had been throwing at him all game.

The Karolyi’s testimony was less than forthcoming? Well:

“For analysis, let’s now turn to Senior Deadspin Commentariat Correspondent Lying Cat. Lying Cat, what do you think?”

Hot take (but also serious): Her response is more racist than the actual video.

Totally agree with that statement. Sometimes, it’s easy for me to be focused on the surface issue (and maybe some underlying issues), and miss the root of the problem.

It would be. But this isn’t about the video. This is about the reaction to it. That everyone would rather just look the other way, pretend it didn’t happen. The girl sending the twitter messages more concerned about how this will affect her than what she did.

“This video really was out of innocence

It’s pretty stupid to sing this. It’s pretty stupid to record it and post it online. But as stupid as these kids were, I find it hard to believe that they’re malicious. I’ve never heard this song before, because I’ve crossed into Old Man territory, but these are, in fact, lyrics in the song. That doesn’t excuse it,…

I’ll fight you.

Counterpoint: Fuck you, Chris.