To me, the answer here is pretty obvious: Do away with the lottery, the draft, and the rookie wage scale. Once cheapskate owners and dysfunctional front offices can no longer get special access to price-fixed young talent as a reward for being shitty losers--when they have to either compete with the well-run shops, or…

It’s worse than that, imo, it’s about setting up an impossible standard.  How to you prove that a man grabbed your ass, short of other witnesses seeing it happen.  Sexual harassment and sexual assault is really really hard to prove.  And because it is, then men get away with it over and over again.  It’s just a tactic…

Kate was an easy call, though John’s Two-Hearted selection was on point.

But “supermarket beer” is pretty contingent on the supermarket and its selection; I was surprised to see Fat Tire as a “supermarket” beer while there are other craft-y breweries that have plenty of supermarket distribution that weren’t selected.

I…

Oh, did you hear that, everybody? He opposed same sex marriage for religious reasons! It’s not homophobia if you discriminate for Jesus!

Yeah, I wish there were more Franken apologists treating him as a martyr rather than a victim (Admitting that using either of those words in this context is pretty gross). Dude made a politically savvy, selfless decision that almost certainly moved a marginal House seat or two in exchange for his career. That’s the…

Half of the mlb are FUCKING PUSSIES

New York: We’re savages in that box.
Colorado: Hold our artisanal dry-hopped 8 ounce taster.
*beans NY in the chin*
*throws bats at NY*
*loses*
Colorado: It seems they’re savages in that box.

Benjamin “All throughout season one I am clearly actually clinically insane and it’s wild that no one meaningfully objects to someone so visibly unstable being put in charge” Sisko?

I don’t want to make a thing of this but I think, down here in the comments section, there’s a difference between “I’m willing to make a joke about this” and “I don’t think this is a serious thing”. There are lots of things that are serious and terrifying in the world that people joke about to help cope with the stark…

Sounds pretty typical for a major organizing effort on the left. They tend to be horror shows of over-work and low pay. 

Well, this should at least satisfy the purists who for years complained about baseball analysts judging players like Addison Russell, Odubel Hererra, and Roberto Osuna without having the benefit of personal experience.

Not trying to be a joke-truther, but Ellsbury is actually still on the team!

You know, Boonie is on to something here. For as Rousseau said in his Discourse on Inequality, “In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others.” That is, in “the box” the batter…

He did not live on a boat. His police precinct was located on a boat.

I’m feeling admiration for a sports talk host? What the shit is going on??

Every adult that brings a glove to a game and doesn’t have a kid with them should be put on some sort of list.

I’m not sure what’s worse, being Takes-Ball-Away-From-Kids Guy or being Chooses-Drinks-Based-On-ABV guy.

You see, this is why I’m moving on from Deadspin and their constant focus on politcs and heading more and more over to the Ringer where they are talking about the things that really matter to me as a sports fan like which Rom-Com from 2003 holds up the best. 

JUSTICE FOR DESUS AND MERO! THIS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.

Serious question, not trolling. Deadspin has been very active in promoting player safety in a variety of sports. How do you square that with covering a blood sport like this? To me, even watching the NFL can be problematic because of the risk of injury, especially head injury, and my enjoyment of big hits in football…