First thing I thought of. I’m not really sure how a site like Deadspin (which bends over backwards to attack people as monsters for engaging in anything that violates even a scintilla of its moral code) can post an article about the running of the bulls that doesn’t at least mention how horrific the practice is. 

Aren’t strikeouts and home runs correlated though? The explanation I recall reading a year or so ago was that the uptick in home runs was due to batters altering their swing angle to hit more fly balls- they were disincentivized from just trying to get the ball in play. However, this style also means that you’re more…

Can you think of another athlete where writers and bloggers would bend over backwards this hard to avoid appearing to criticize? Like, if Lebron James or Steph Curry or Aaron Rodgers absolutely went off on an official in a game (and not once, not twice, but thrice in the same game!) do you think every article that…

This whole situation is such an amazing Rorschach test. People whose priors are “Serena is treated unfairly and everyone is biased against her” cannot be swayed by what actual happened, or by evidence of a) similar men behaving similarly being disciplined similarly, or b) men not being punished because their behavior…

Can you actually point to any? The list of men being punished for similar conduct is pretty extensive (McEnroe being actually tossed from a grand slam comes to mind). And at the time this incident occurred, people kept pointing to the same list of bad behaving men, but every instance they pointed to was so obviously…

Exactly! This whole “apology” is more “I’m so sorry that everyone else being so terrible to me and behaving so horribly on that day took away from your enjoyment of your accomplishment” than heartfelt recognition of her own mistakes. 

Her blaming everyone else is pretty funny. And then writing this article and releasing the apology letter to make herself look grateful and magnanimous in the fact of a controversy that was about 99% her own fault in the first place. 

The only race I ever finished any better than dead last in as a child was the backstroke, and they DQ’d me for turning over like 0.5 seconds early (I finished in second to dead last by about 2 seconds). I still remember how disappointed I was to learn I had FINALLY swam fast enough not to be the worst swimmer and had…

I cannot for the life of me understand why people run to the flag code when it suits their purposes. Literally nobody gives a shit about it in the general population. Pretending like it is the be all and end all on this subject is just stupid. The people who are pissed with Nike about this never once claimed that they…

Are the people who are upset with Nike claiming that Kaep’s argument violates the flag code? Because otherwise it seems like nobody really gives a shit about the flag code except for the one’s trying to force a hypocrisy argument into the discussion. The people who are upset tend to be the ones wearing american flag…

What is this website’s fascination with Kyrgios? Article after article about a guy that seems entirely uninteresting outside of some childish behavior from time to time. I’d be happier with zero tennis coverage than I am with seeing his name pop up so frequently on here for doing anything other than actually winning…

Three separate replies to the same comment spaced out over more than 4 hours? Yeesh...

You’re disappointed that a brand’s slogan isn’t fully accurate to the reality that we live in? What’s next? You gonna call out Meow Mix because cat’s don’t REALLY ask for it by name? Or do you want sports announcers during Falcons games next year to point out that some of BMW’s offerings are superior to Mercedes, so…

You must be new here. Deadspin isn’t the place to fairly interpret and listen to what people ACTUALLY say. It’s the place to wild misrepresent people’s quotes in order to attack them for being monsters while making snarky and pithy jokes in the comments sections. Your accurate reading of what’s going on here is…

It was like 3 sentences about Zion’s particular and singular experience during a discussion that had nothing to do with single parent households, growing up poor in america, etc. You don’t actually think he’s even talking about the family dynamics of millions of other households that happen to not include the #1 draft…

This article is a great example of how this site will take someone’s quote and apply the absolute worst possible interpretation of it to the speaker, expand the intent of the comment out to it’s broadest possible implications, and then use that massively unfair interpretation to attack the speaker. Billups didn’t say…

I also didn’t understand that framing. “The Wizards did something weird-the took a guy who was expected to go no higher than 5th and no lower than 14th with their pick at #9. CRAZY WIZARDS!”

“You know what’s going to make viewers at home more irate than watching shitty calls in slow-mo? Watching shitty calls in slow-mo while the refs have no recourse to do anything about it.”

I absolutely do not get the mindset that people have that other people who do things they wouldn’t do are somehow making terrible decisions for themselves. I eat pretty healthy, don’t drink or smoke, don’t do drugs, etc. People roll their eyes at me and tell me how absurd it is for me to be “missing out” on all the…

It constantly amazes me how many knots people will twist themselves into in order to try to pretend like the reason they can’t lose weight isn’t because they’re eating too much. It’s really hard to lose weight! I’m not saying it’s easy! But it is 100% related to the number of calories you’re consuming in a day. People…