Jesus, Billy, can you get off Barcelona’s dick for a minute? Obviously Valencia’s fans were assholes and deserved a more severe punishment, but you’ve written 3 (!) articles about this now like Barcelona are a bunch of perfect saints who are too good for this earth.

There really isn’t anything scandalous here. Not to be a “stick to sports” dick about it because I genuinely enjoy a lot of Deadspin’s takes on politics and pop culture, but writers without any policy expertise (not trying to single Albert out) tend to do a very, very bad job of accurately contextualizing stories that…

Are dads who love Jack Ryan/Jack Reacher/etc. books dudes who used to read good books until they had kids, or did they always love that shit? Asking for fear of my future.

I am a huge fucking nerd, but it makes me want to die when I hear other nerds insist that “nerdcore” isn’t somehow more cringe-worthy than listening to Donald Trump talk about women. This was a well-deserved burn.

I am so fucking bitter that the Rangers ditched Hagelin for (meager) cap space so that we could keep deadweight like Dan Girardi on the team, and he immediately (well, after another trade) won the Cup with another team. Good for him, I guess - not like he was ever gonna win one in New York.

There is a weird West Coast craft brew thing of giving IPAs almost self-parodically “masculine” names and descriptors. I was visiting friends in Portland last month and I swear every fucking beer I drank was described on the menu as “brutal” or “muscular” or “extreme” or some variation thereof.

I got married in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend and sat behind Jason Garrett and his wife in first class (my soon-to-be wife and I were flying first class from NY to Chicago as part of a needlessly extravagant/unnecessary wedding gift from my dad). His luggage also had a gigantic Cowboys logo on it and he was…