This seems pretty benign for a player to get all worked up about. A player that gets a fan kicked out of a game for something as mild as “you did something right by batting for that lousy teammate of yours” seems like the entitled one to me. I get that this guy seems to be a journeyman who may not be making tens of…

I’m always curious as to what the rules of Deadspin’s snark are. When some incredibly wealthy people are obnoxious and petty jerks it gets a whole day devoted to attacking and insulting them, and then when others do it Deadspin writes articles praising the cleverness of the act. It makes no sense to me. This seems…

I have no idea what your whole comment means. The fans booed- they didn’t ban him from retiring. He’s still retiring, precisely because he is aware of all the things you said. The fans also don’t “owe” Luck anything. He’s not their best friend. He’s not their family. He was the QB of the team they follow. If they want…

“Andrew Luck is not an entertainment product.”

“As a general rule, sports leagues shouldn’t be weighing in as judges and juries on sexual assault”

“It’s not that its star is a rapey scumbag, it’s that its protagonist is a statutorilyrapey scumbag.”

Not to mention that the throw itself was 100% the correct call in that situation. Yeah yeah yeah, it didn’t work out, but that wasn’t the fault of the play call. Everyone loves the post hoc analysis, but that was a perfectly reasonable and solid decision at the time.

EDIT: Removing my comment since literally a half dozen other guys already made the same point. 

And that time he assaulted two guys over a minor fender bender in suburban Maryland.

Exactly. I found the author’s tying of Soul Cycle attendance with utterly uninformed wealthy hipsters to be bizarre. I work for the DC government and have lots of colleagues who like Soul Cycle. We’re not making $250k, but I guess anyone who attends Soul Cycle and was upset about this news must conform to the author’s…

I was just on the PS Store last night and saw this pop up and initially thought they’d released the new Doom game (which I have since learned is actually called Doom: Eternal, right?) without me being aware of it. It clearly isn’t a brand new game, so when did this come out and why was it being promoted on the PS…

Agreed. Nothing about this situation says “mental health problem” to me. It’s more just an arrogant guy who is used to getting his own way being upset that other people are telling him what to do. I don’t even know what mental health disease people are claiming he has here. Everyone’s just rushing to defend a guy who…

And multiple independent, peer-reviewed studies of police shootings have failed to find any evidence of racial bias. Cops are a-holes, and their training emphasizes force in ways that endanger the public. But there doesn’t seem to be any evidence (outside of the disproportionate attention paid by the media and the…

That last point is crucial. Regardless of the reason, Westbrook went into this with eyes wide open and the full negotiating ability to simply walk away from the deal if he didn’t like these terms. This wasn’t a greedy owner taking advantage of a player the way Deadspin is implying- it was two parties with equal…

Stop it with the nuanced understanding of what’s really going on here. Deadspin wants to just hammer the whole “billionaires are manipulative monsters and the players are their pawns” narrative, even when talking about two guys that are probably each worth at least 11 figures. The fact that Westbrook wasn’t forced by…

The tenor really is bizarre. I get the whole “billionaires are richer than multimillionaires” take and all, but hammering it so consistently does start to sound like Deadspin thinks someone making $38 million a year is in dire financial straits. Like, in what possible world are we supposed to feel sorry for Russel…

The whole analysis about why he went to the Nets is laughable. Chris is essentially saying “the reasons he gave are subjectively silly. I don’t think they should have mattered as much, and these counter points are what I would have cared more about, so therefore Durant is obfuscating the truth from us and is an…

He explicitly included statistics about other gun deaths, and then you attack him for not realizing that his statistics include gun deaths. His point was NOT about minimizing the importance of guns in the equation- it was about pointing out how there are horrific things that we need to keep our focus on everyday…

Still haven’t finished my first cup of coffee this morning, so the first few times I read your comment I thought you were saying Tom Cruise threw a dog named Tag owned by a man named Goose off of a naval vessel. I was like “WTF? I do NOT remember that AT ALL!”

Lebron excitedly participating in his son’s life and activities is somehow being compared to Donald Trump’s egomania? Jesus, the shit people can get upset about nowadays...