I was there too! Such an awesome experience! It was amazing- you could literally FEEL the sound it was so loud at the stadium :). Couldn’t fall asleep until after 1:00 because of how amped up I was, but the rough day at work today is gonna be totally worth it.

He saw the ball go by the outfielder and was chugging to third cause he thought he could stretch it into a triple. I was at the game sitting in right field and I thought the ball would go farther than it did after it got past him too. It was a poor choice in retrospect, but he’s a 20 year old that just hit an…

The description of the Brewers at the end is the standard “these guys won cause they had HEART!” style analysis, which is always insanely stupid. Their last out was an absolute bomb to centerfield that Taylor caught on the warning track! If that ball is hit 0.2% harder the Brewers snatch back the lead in the 9th on…

I also love how this story doesn’t even exist without the apology. I don’t see a link in Gabe’s article to a prior deadspin story about the hit, so this appears to be the kind of questionable play that happens in a ton of football games that would have been utterly forgotten and ignored if a college student didn’t…

Not to mention that we don’t even know what CTE’s impacts are. It’s become a catch all for “football player does something crazy- MUST BE CTE!” We literally don’t know enough about the disease to make any of those causal claims, so even if AB has CTE that doesn’t in any way mean we can say that therefore his behavior…

I’m aghast at how oblivious the cult of Bernie supporters are to the harm they’re actually doing to their own movement. Just look at the likes and replies on this thread- your comment expressing exasperation with Bernie Bros has far more likes than a pro-Bernie comment, and that’s on Splinter! This whole website is a…

Are you actually unable to comprehend how perfectly he proved the point? Traffic Cone Number 3 says “the problem with Bernie bros is that they attack anyone who doesn’t pass their purity test going back decades.” Then someone responds by saying “stop playing- based off your comment we know that you’re an awful Trump…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a situation on deadspin where people are willing to bend over backwards to the degree that they’re doing so for AB. This worked out well for the league somehow? Fuck no it didn’t- they’d much rather have one of the most exciting players in the world playing every Sunday. It’s in their…

I do love the inconsistency of the deadspin hivemind in comments section. Certain folks should be strung up and paraded through the streets Cersei Lannister style for some acts, but other folks who have seemingly committed far more egregious behavior just “need help” and we’ll bend over backwards to point out all the…

I also love how everyone points out how unique this movie is for a comic book movie while also saying it really has nothing to do with comic books besides the names of the characters. So it’s not actually a comic book movie, no matter what title you give it. It’d be like making a Superman movie but instead of having…

Agreed. I came here today because I saw that the movie had lost a HUGE amount of points on the metacritic score since it originally screened at the film festival a few weeks back. The critics who saw it there raved about it, but everyone else seems pretty “meh”. I always feel like those festival showings are hugely…

Agreed. That was a pretty tame celebration, and it wasn’t like he called out Schwarber or pointed at him or anything. Even by baseball’s ridiculous unwritten rules, that’s nothing to start screaming at a guy over.

I wish all my teams could be “cursed” enough to have the best record in their sport *eye roll*

This website is run by a bunch of a-holes, which we all knew, but just look at the comments section here to see just how skewed and manipulative they are about the information they choose to present. You have a few comments from people making jokes, one person who writes in support who then gets a rebuttal that draws…

Eh, pulling a random internet comment out of the ether and then mounting an attack against it as if it is a legitimate point to be made is pretty absurd. I can find some internet commenter who says that Bernie is going to walk into my house and take my paycheck out of my wallet, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve found a…

Exactly. She criticizes the owners for not being qualified to be the standard bearers for how society should view certain subjects (which they are clearly NOT qualified to be), but then points out how a bunch of former football players didn’t really go into depth about what this story REALLY means. Society now expects…

“(In her complaint, Taylor asks for damages. Brown’s camp already is feeding information to media to portray Taylor as just another woman out for cash—but believing that requires ignoring that the entire point of civil court is acknowledging a wrong, and then compensating the wronged party through money. Money is, in…

Eh, players choose not to sign shit for people who come running up to them screaming all the time. The only reason this video went viral was because he came up with a funny line as he walked past him. No reason to feel sorry for the kid or angry at the player. 

I also found his whole “teammates love guys like this and don’t care at all about their behavior” argument given that later on he pointed out how AB, TO, Bell, et al., all left teams in large part because of how much their behavior was pissing off their teammates. A lot of his statements contradicted, in part at…

“The world is waiting for Saints fans to shut up about refereeing—a narrow loss Monday night would’ve restored their anger for another century.”