Regarding #2- agreed, but I’m so friggin’ sick of Deadspin spending so much time just attacking other websites. This site is full of hack writers putting out shitty takes, sometimes in entertaining ways and sometimes in just plain stupid ways. The fact that they spend so much time scouring the internet for articles on…

Agreed. That video shows him grabbing for his own phone, and then the chair slowly topples over and she harmlessly falls off of it as she maneuvers to prevent him from getting his property back. It’s not a pretty image, and I don’t think either of the people involved are acting like adults, but he should be arrested…

I gave up halfway through. There didn’t seem to be any point whatsoever to what I was reading. Kudos to you for sticking it out 2x.

Sure. A dramatically less important part of the game, but not completely irrelevant to the consideration. Bonds did win a whole bunch of gold gloves, and I wouldn’t say his defensive abilities do much to undercut just how incredibly/obscenely/historically terrifying he was as an offensive juggernaut. Every advanced…

Precisely. Bonds was great early on without being “all-time great”, but I don’t see there being any chance that Trout becomes the absolutely unstoppable force that Bonds became after he started shoveling two tons of PEDs into his system every day. I just pulled up some of his numbers from the late-90s forwards, and…

Will they be wrong? I mean, Bonds was clearly cheating and whatever, but wasn’t he the best player ever if you ignore that and just base it on his actual metrics? I’m not a huge baseball fan, so I could very well be wrong, but I thought that Bonds isn’t considered arguably the best player of all time pretty much…

Lebron wasn’t going to play in the east or beat the Raptors if the Lakers made the playoffs though...

And of course, no matter how many likes my comments get (either on this article or the actual Ronaldo article), Deadspin is going to keep me in the greys so that they can avoid having more people realize just how absurd the site can be on some of the issues that it most aggressively attacks others on.

Hahahaha, I literally inserted and then deleted quotations around writers when I wrote my comment :)

Jesus dude, do you honestly not know what the words “criteria” or “metrics” mean? No wonder you think Kobe is the 3rd best player of all time.

Still. I mean, what’s the actual criteria? 

For sure. Does any other website care enough about Deadspin to do the same to the writers on here?

Claiming he’s the third best player ever is absolutely ludicrous. How do you justify that? What metric are you basing it off of?

Not to mention the utter uselessness of public opinion polls, at least in the way Hot Take is using them. Public opinion polls support medicare for all- until you change the wording slightly to highlight how much your taxes will go up. He’s using simplified opinion polls to describe where the majority of Americans are…

Deadspin literally just published a puff piece fawning all over Ronaldo like 4 days ago, and the only mention of the rape case against him (which he settled with the accuser who is now raising very legitimate claims) was to provide a link (with virtually no description) to an article about Juventus’ owner not talking…

Those VOX stats just prove he’s center left. If they showed that he was more conservative than 25% of republicans then the claim would be justified. But the Democrats are too the left of center- showing he’s not as liberal as many in the left party doesn’t make him right. 

What a terrible defense of the article. “This article was worthwhile because when you run for President all sorts of people will say all sorts of stupid things, some good and some bad.” Okay, true. If the article had been about Beto saying that the coverage of him was unfair then your point might make sense. But why…

“Should you be universally condemned without actually going through due process.”

This is bizarre. You say we should judge him as a freelancer looking for the best gig, but then imply that nobody can opine on whether he actually got the best gig. He’s not a traitor, he’s just a guy looking for the best job. But we can still look at what he actually got out of his actions and say whether or not his…

Yup. The fact that deadspin (part of a web platform that explicitly attacks organizations and institutions for maintaining any ties whatsoever with anyone they deem to have committed any of their ever expanding list of transgressions) would write up this fawning puff piece and literally only mention the rape…