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h/t to ElephanTitus Andronicus for the idea

This. As a Sox fan still dealing with the World Series drought, watching Luis Gonzalez win it with a bloop single had me absolutely ecstatic.

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the woman literally emailed me right after the story went up to say “i’m glad you told that commenter to fuck off”

PLEASE fuck off

fuck off

How selfless and incredible of this woman to share such a painful, heartbreaking yet insightful story. So much love going out to her.

NYC

Give the Patriots the perfect season.

Minor difference being that those features cost money to build and maintain. Where empty space costs nothing to build and very little to maintain.

+1 JBJ is a cool nickname...and he’s a famous Cock from SC

I’ve been to the Draft. It used to be comic-con for NFL fanatics. Now it’s a marketing opportunity to show how much the NFL supports our troops, how parents aren’t keeping their kids out of football for fear of catastrophic injury, and how their players aren’t wifebeaters and drug abusers—look at all of our “MEN OF…

Wow. Mike and Mike has gotten a lot better.

Nope! It’s this:

Pending an improbable exoneration from the internal peer review, everything [Arnold] had worked for is now gone, likely never to be recovered, ever again. Recovery, if there is any, appears to be something deserved only by the Twitter critics of a freelancer whose future writing career will apparently be, like the way…

Making a Murderer provides an (arguably) credible alternative narrative to a story told by prosecutors. It was presented as a divisive issue deliberately. It hooked viewers and kept them talking about the show.

I don’t think this article is saying that. Making a Murderer is about a relatively powerless individual who was railroaded by the justice system at least once, and which presents credible evidence it happened again. It is one-sided to be sure, but there is at least a plausible basis for that.