A sac fly also involves a runner starting his sprint from a dead stop. The runner here is already running hard, so it’s a much better position for the runner to be in. Sending him home was the right decision. Sometimes the right call just doesn’t work out is all.

I do appreciate the implication here that the rest of the world can’t do anything stupid unless America teaches it to them in the first place. It is both an oddly condescending view of the world AND one that views the rest of the world as better than us.

That is 100% the point he was making. Spinning it into some sort of criticism against Clinton is pretty dang stupid, and doing so requires palmofnapalm to willfully misinterpret and spin the comment in order to act like Krasinski is some loony conspiracy theorist.

I’m confused as to what the claim you’re making is. He’s paid an annual salary, right? It’s not like he’s an hourly employee. So these activities are things that he is paid for, and he didn’t perform activities that he was contractually obligated to perform. How is this the team being able to fine him for not showing…

You can go. I wouldn’t recommend it though. And I say this as someone who had a very serious alcohol problem and hasn’t touched a drop in 10 years. AA is a cult that teaches pseudoscience and nonsense to blame and shame folks into sobriety. Their success rate is no better than doing nothing at all, so they’re most…

Legally, the argument I would expect the family’s attorney to make would be that the lower level guy was acting in his official capacity as an employee of the team. The team hired the guy to help with the players, get them shit, etc., so the employee’s only reason for interacting with the player is because of the team…

Do all the people asking outraged questions about what legal terms mean not have access to google or something? 

Murder and felony murder- you can be charged with felony murder when a death occurs as result of the commission of another, specifically enumerated crime. Here, the defendant was in the act of committing other felonies (burglary, assault, something like that), when the three people were shot while committing that…

Remember like 2 weeks ago when a black assailant who literally shot six actual police officers was peacefully apprehended without incident? It wasn’t that long ago. I’m not sure how the race of this murderer suddenly became something we should be focusing on in this story. 

I’m sure they didn’t bring in the tank to deal with a naked 18 year old. Rather, I’m sure that they had no idea exactly how serious this could get or what scenarios would present themselves, including things like having an armed and deranged man holed up inside a home. All that they were saying was that they literally…

“Basketball’s a close second, but I would argue that if you try to cherry-pick and/or pick up a technical, you will not play anything approaching enough minutes to get a good enough look. No coach would give you the time. I’d say it’s 51-49 baseball, with luck providing a margin of error of about 2.”

“Has any athlete ever behaved appropriately in a press conference and actually supplied a valuable answer to a presser question?”

A waiter makes a mistake and/or does something that you don’t like and you think it’s okay to be an asshole to them? What does that make you?

Not to mention that the booing that he’s complaining about (and that Deadspin seems so outraged by) is pretty much just mild criticism from a few folks in the stands. Sure, if he was getting racial epithets hurled his way then they would have crossed the line. But the Phillies have been disappointing, so some of the…

Jesus, the guy hit a walk off home run to win a regular season game against the second worst team in the NL, and now he’s a “walk off hero”?? I’m not sure why that especially non-noteworthy accomplishment means that the fans can’t boo him for explicitly criticizing them. Relax Deadspin. 

Holy shit, people care enough about their comments being ungreyed that they’re emailing the writers to beg them for their status back? No wonder the Deadspin crew are such entitled weenies!

“Philadelphia has to pay an “a-hole premium”to land free agents.”

In what fantasy land do you exist? Booing is now unacceptable in most fandoms? Get over yourself man. A little bit of booing and modest heckling of professional athletes is not some horrible human rights violation the way your comments are all implying. 

Imagine getting paid incredibly well to play a game that thousands of people will pay to come watch you play and then whining and complaining because one of them randomly said something moderately insulting to you from a distance. If you offered me a contract that paid me this guy’s salary and then said it meant that…

I’m utterly perplexed by this seemingly increasingly popular notion that ANY level of negativity directed at professional athletes is crossing some line of acceptable behavior. It boggles my mind that lines like this get taken seriously: