It’s not really her fault; some idiot asked her about it. It’s not like she “chose to take this stance” by scheduling a press conference to announce she wouldn’t go. Someone interviewing her asked her a question, and she answered the question presented to her.

I agree with her, but I think it’s unfortunate that she chose to take this stance before actually winning the Cup.  Now, if they lose, Trump can say “what a bunch of losers, maybe the should have spent more time practicing and less time planning their disrespect of the country” or something.  Whereas if she said, “I…

All good points, but Rapinoe also celebrated a goal too much, so who’s really the bad one here?

The Orioles are the dreary, regular kind of shitty. The Mets opened this season honestly believing they’d contend for a championship! Their dipshit general manager, who calls in game-day decisions from his damn couch, told the rest of the NL East to “come get us.”

The Orioles are the Chipotle of awful teams. The Mets are the French Laundry of awful teams. Exquisite and to be savored.

Do I have any legal recourse against an ex who turned me into a Mets fan?

Man I’m glad deadspin doesn’t write about how putrid my Orioles are this frequently 

It’s weird that this day on the site has been DARK enough that a blog about Henry Kissinger still being alive is like fourth or fifth bleakest on the day.

Goddamn man. Just when I was getting bummed out by the excellently reported but thoroughly depressing and serious stories that appeared on here today, you have to go and pull out that headline and make it hard for me to not laugh in the office.

I see where he’s coming from. For a guy whose day to day in the white house involved being ok with the deaths of thousands of innocent people on a frequent basis an oasis of sport like the Olympics, which has only occasionally featured the deaths of innocent people, must seem like a welcome reprieve. 

Thanks for the local perspective. To add to it for our fellow readers worldwide, Montréal is an amazing and fun city in summer. Everyone heads outdoors, there’s so much to do, competing festivals trying to draw crowds, open-air exhibitions everywhere. It’s very family-friendly and not too spendy and you can have a…

The right of first authorship plays a big role in this process, with the slick lawyers piling up billable hours telling the harried municipal staff “Why don’t we draw up the agreement, it’s standard language that other cities have used in similar situations, we’ll tweak it and fill in the blanks, and then you can…

Crazy-ass idea: put the team where people want to see baseball.

I was at the Rockies/Diamondbacks game the same day the girl was hit in Houston, sitting about the same spot she was. I splurged a bit because I was by myself and I’ve never even sniffed a foul ball in my life. I estimate I was 150 feet from home plate. From the minute I sat down, I was nervous. Even being nervous,…

My family has had White Sox season tickets between home and 1st base, 18 rows up, for the better part of 20 years. Not a humble brag, just means we’re dumb enough to pay more than the seats are worth at this point.

Gormon’s research has found 2,000 people who have died at baseball games (at every level of play combined), and he says people email him regularly with new victims to add.

But why should they? They’ve been able to soak the public for decades. It’s become part and parcel of ownership. Cities are finally waking up to the realities of the Greater Fool Theory, though, and realizing that threats of moving are hollow when no one wants to play the tax-break game.

It always amazes me the lengths these filthy rich folks will go to not spend their own money to build a stadium. 

We may never know the name of the city lawyer who wrote that use agreementback in 1995, but including a clause that the city could seek an injunction against even talking about a move, on the grounds that this would “result in irreparable harm and damages that are not readily calculable” was a genius move that…

Or the MadBum Theory, where they give up home runs into large bodies of water and get butthurt about it.