Stat Boy seems like good people. This kind of thing happens. No hate here.

I was just hoping for a number I could show my wife

Counterpoint: I am someone’s neighbor and I am fucking awesome.

Red Sox fans of a certain age can confirm a 14 game lead this late in the season is money in the bank. No one can put a dent in this team.

My anxiety can’t handle this, man.

Terri, CLEAR YOUR FUCKING INBOX!

This is what happens after years of spaying and neutering.

including prostitution, purchasing alcohol for underage team members, and paying others to complete their homework assignments.

Rumor has it the cheerleaders were also part of a pyramid scheme.

First Take a Bunch of Painkillers

Your graph disproves your point that Trump jokes are “ruining” Deadspin, as the fall in traffic coincides with the presidential election. One might hypothesize that traffic was high during the election due to Trump jokes, and that once he was elected they stopped being so funny.

Yes, it must suck to be the 470th ranked website in the United States. But, irrespective of Deadspin’s performance, I’ve been an asshole a lot longer than I’ve been posting comments here, so...

In 2017, I believe we call this sort of tone “presidential.”

Of course, in that (purely hypothetical!) case, this performance would reveal our (purely hypothetical!) celebrity to be an extremely gross phony.

Uck. Gagne with a spoon.

Whatever, her grandfather was the worst professor I ever had and then I heard he killed some guy.

The other quoted text in the headline is from Self himself. “Distraction” was originally brought up by a reporter (at least as far as the text of the Deadspin piece makes it sound; I haven’t listened to the press conference audio). So yes, the headline does suggest exactly what lovintheorange said.

The headline suggests that he’s the one that called it a “distraction” but I don’t think this is an example of the usual “coach downplays seriousness of a rape because basketball is more important” thing. The reporter ASKED if it was a distraction, and he basically responded, “Yes it is, but the police’s work in…