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Yeah, no problem at all, I appreciate the discussion. I also don’t come around here too often anymore, with the rabid takeover artists now in charge who’ve killed off Splinter and Deadspin.

Our country is a $#!t hole...

*better

“Mr. President, the way to stay safe and healthy is to wash your hands regularly.”

*better

I admit I never made it to the finale. Three or four seasons in, I threw in the towel, tired of being manipulated. “Okay, they captured the weird guy in the weird tunnel, we’re about to get answers to all the weirdness...”

This GIF (or GIF, have it your way) needs to be put into that People Are Awesome website.

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I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.”—Private Joker 

Understood.  I agree it’s hard to quit cold turkey.  

I understand. I don’t think it’s black and white, there’s a lot of nuance, a multitude of pros and cons. My reaction, after Splinter and now Deadspin, is that I can’t hold my nose any longer.

This is the pot calling the kettle black, but why are you still visiting sites here? By doing so, you’re contributing to the bottom line of these evil assholes.

Yeah, after Splinter and now this, I’m off this assortment of sites.  Ain’t no sense in investing any time in these.  Fun times on The Takeout too, trading stories about restaurant/hospitality work, but I can’t really hold my nose any longer.  

Thanks for the link.  I saw this proclaimed yesterday in another thread, but couldn’t find anything on Google about Farmer’s cancelling their business with this crooked shop.

Well, Drew is posting his Funbag, which is at most tangentially sports-related. If all of us readers, hungry for the tried-and-true Deadspin content, click and read and comment, it proves that their stick-to-sports-leave-our-crooked-President-alone directive is misguided if not suicidal.  We don’t come here for

Except in the old days, when magazines were bricks and newspapers got your fingers all smudgy.

Ray Ratto and Charles Pierce make me read about effing basketball and baseball!

Use a big bowl, ...

Yeah, I guess play-by-play host rankings are highly subjective. A lot of it depends on who you grew up on. I was raised on the superb René Lecavalier and later Richard Garneau, with Gilles Tremblay doing colour commentary, and they were second to none. By contrast, when I was first introduced to Bob Cole’s nasal