Enough Deadspin. Kobe made a bad mistake that shows he’s an awful person. Do we have to keep talking over and over again about how horrible and dysfunctional he is?

Yeah I’ve calmed down. I just had to rise to protect the integrity of Birdie Num Nums. On to the next hot take!

See, this is why people so rarely admit that they’re wrong in comments sections (and life in general), because people like you belittle them after they do. Take your hard-won Internet victory with class dude.

The dude admitted he was wrong though. We should all acknowledge this momentous occasion: A reasonable discussion in an Internet comments section where someone gracefully stood corrected!

Can someone please justify Los Angeles at #3 without referring to the weather?

‘...The battle-hardened soul of “Major League Baseball: A Game For Men*”’

Something tells me he’s gonna get it.

Patriots fan here. I’ve spent hours writing long online defenses of Spygate and Deflategate on various messageboards, reading hearing transcripts, conducting experiments, feeding every troll who says anything, and spending way too much mental energy and time defending my favorite team.

Also they have a couple uber-prospects at third base coming up through the pipeline. If Shaw doesn’t work out, throw Devers in next year.

The NFL also used the consulting firm Exponent to do the scientific analysis of the footballs in DeflateGate. Also using Exponent? The tobacco industry! Exponent’s analysis showed that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Well he’s obviously not a true Pats fan then because we overreact very badly to trolls.

I’m still bitter about the post he made a few months ago where he took the NFL’s side in Deflategate. But I’m bitter about a lot of stuff.

Is Samer really a Patriots fan, or does he just say that so it looks like he has credibility when he crushes them in his posts?

Yeah the statement about women’s soccer having more concussions than football was really bad, and Simmons (who is an advocate for women’s soccer as much as any MSM member due to his daughter playing it) really should have called him on it. Bad looks all around.

Yeah but saying that this ‘future mental illness’ is just as (or more likely) to be from ‘existing mental illness’ as it is to CTE is fucking stupid.

Patriots fan here. This is how it starts.

Damn dude, did you brother have an affair with Nate Silver or something?

I would like to draw attention to this fantastic exchange in the 538 comment section:

Good one Von! He’d make a great internet commenter.

Cool thanks guys! Sounds like you could save some cash this way. In my opinion, prepayment penalties are evil, but that would be how they’d protect themselves from my loophole.