believe it or not, I looked that up! But it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with hitting a deep ball. Seems to be more related to something you do pitching/bowling.

“yorked???” You didn’t feel like you’ve done enough making up of words to describe baseball stuff with “dongs???” I just can’t read baseball stories on Deadspin anymore.

You don’t remember the Great War of Gay Flag Wavery? It was quite a spectacle!

Days like today give unwelcome validity to every fantasy football jagoff who swears he could make better personnel decisions than many NFL GMs. Thanks for that Vikings. Now we have to suffer That Guy just a bit more. Chrissakes, a monkey flinging its poo at a roster could do better than this.

Yeah, that’s definitely the fantastic part.

“Glad I went to San Diego last night ...”

That is pretty fantastic. Just food for thought: that’s a great pass, but the way Bonino fumbles the puck a little and takes just a beat to gather? Goalie’s gotta have that one.

Right at the end:

Holy shit. This is pretty unbelievable. I had no idea they make Half-Baked ice cream sandwiches. I love Half-Baked. Iron Mike just did a public service and I am grateful. Ben & Jerry should pay for this sandwich.

Yeah, but when you’re comparing to the fact that Pete Gillen coached God Shamgod at Providence, no one’s all that impressed with Jesus.

Disagree completely. You know exactly how you know this and just are not willing to explain. And I’m not sure whether to mock you or thank you for that.

After the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision about whether burning the US flag was a legal form of protected free speech (it is, and the court invalidated 48 states’ laws decreeing otherwise), Justice William Brennan blew this question out of the water in my view. He was speaking of the flag specifically but it…

You can always spot the True Patriots in this country real easy. They are the ones who are most offended by the people who choose to do something other than participate in the rote, scripted recitations of allegiance to country and flag, which are the the most sacred form of Patriotism in a country where freedom of…

Are you required by some NFL bylaw that we don’t know about to have terrible hair/haircut to be affiliated with the Raiders? I wonder if they’ll require the fans to do similar in the new stadium.

If it were me (teammate, obvi), I would say the going rate would depend largely on what MLB Star stood to NOT lose in salary by not getting caught. Some percentage of that number seems fair.

I very much liked this description from the event article ...

I grew up in the suburbs of DC on George Michael and the Sports Machine. I remember feeling kind of “proud” or something when I went to college and told people that he was my local sportscaster. They were sort of jealous. Then one day I was back home at a 7-11. Found myself in line behind none other than George…

Given your thumb on the pulse of certain demographic age groups, can you provide an estimate for me as to when hipsters will move on from bourbon? It’s actually ruining my life so I sort of need to know. Thanks, I’ll hang up and listen.

Pissfluenza. Case dismissed.

What’s with the USOC saying they’ll cooperate fully? Is that because both are gone already? How about, um no, if you are charging them with a serious crime and have pretty damning evidence, come talk to us. Short of that, no we’re not going to help you detain US citizens in your country. I think that’s what I would…