Starred, and this is a point I’d make often in discussions relative to Hockey Night in Canada, how they propped up Bob Cole for two decades at least past his ‘Best Before’ date. Now, I understand he’s a legend, and that anglophone viewers get the warm and fuzzies hearing his foghorn call, that’s what they were raised…

I want to add my voice to those who insist that the Expos have no connection, even tenuous, to the Washington Natinals, emotional or otherwise. MLB, Jeffrey Loria and David Samson stole our team, and where it eventually landed matters not to us.

This is a devastating tweet by Hazel Mae. By referring to her by her first name and that she was sitting in the room, it humanizes her, to most humans with human feelings I guess. Maybe for those still missing the point, it shifts the perception of it involving a faceless SI reporter, to an actual person being vilified…

“Born to Run” isn’t garbage, it’s just been so overplayed, I cringe when it comes on now. That’s the bullshit we had to deal with when radio was the main/only way to discover new music, that they played “Money for Nothing” to death to the point you hated that awesome song. Radio made me loathe The Clash, because for…

It doesn’t even need to be done as a protest or charity move. Gawker was profitable before they got stupid and got hammered by that huge fine, and saddled with a huge debt. There’s nothing proprietary about Deadspin except the ‘look and feel’ and the URL. If all the idiots we come here to exchange with pick up and…

OK, so on the same level as “Hi, I’m Brenda Vaccaro.”

You’re quite right that it wasn’t a late hit, I got my controversies mixed up on this one, the issue here was the wisdom of allowing defensive players to dive at a QB’s legs/knees, hence the rule it generated.  I retract this statement.

Fantasy football is a harmless hobby for millions of people, just folks getting together and trash-talking each other and maybe putting down $20 to make it interesting. Somehow it’s become a big joke to mess with or talk down to fantasy football players, and that’s fine, but I guess Matthew Berry has heard it all and c…

Link? I know this is a U.S.-centric, doomed-to-perdition site, but some of us growed up outside your borders, and didn’t assimilate every last bit of your decadent culture.

Counterpoint: the backlash against the ‘meh’ craze is long overdue.

+1 for the use of ‘cookery’

Yes.  I’m tempted to say the composite sticks are overmatched by the sumo-suited goalies nowadays, despite attempts to rein that in.  

Pats fans: born on third, think they’ve struck been called out by the crooked ref.

Maybe not, but certainly asking the question that everyone else is asking, that the ‘folks at home’ would ask if they had access to Tom Brady, is literally their fucking job.

I understand trying to make a point, but ACL reconstruction after a late hit and “getting his knee hurt” are two different things maybe?

I don’t know how true this is, but I remember reading an article that held up Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, and they talked about this commercial as an example of why Tom is so great and a better team guy than Peyton, over and above his decision to take ‘smaller’ contracts so there’d be more money to pay the rest of…

It certainly plays a huge role. With the current administration undermining the crucial role of a free press in a liberal democracy, it’s declared an open season on the media, and not just the “Rock Bottom”-s of the world.

We see this a lot at press conferences, a haughty “How dare you ask that?” glare from the subject, and it has to stop. A good rule of thumb for a reporter to guide his questioning is “Does the reader/listener/viewer care about this? Is she asking the same question in her mind?” If there is an elephant in the room, it…

The rich taste of corruption and cocaine.  I hear they’re barely compostable.