What does one thing have to do with the other? Do you think that Bernie would have signed up to fight in the Iraq War if he had been younger or something? Would his point that the Iraq War is a tremendous blunder be more salient if he’d, like, not conscientiously objected to Vietnam?

I love how Deadspin and kinja commenters in general are constantly railing against Hot Takes despite the fact that Deadspin and Gawker regularly pump them out (sometimes as click-bait or oh-so-funny irony).

honey into coffee.

It’s classic Deadspin grandstanding. It’s all snark with arrogant and sanctimonious mockery until they abruptly shift into arrogant and sanctimonious scolding. It’s the Gawker Way™.

Right? Utley is fucking airborne and upright when he’s at the bag, yet people are claiming it’s a legal slide. Dude almost concussed himself with the move.

Please note that Daniel Murphy is actually sliding whereas Chase Utley was several feet beyond where Murphy is in that photo before he even attempted his slide, which he never completed because he collided with another player while still upright, breaking said player’s leg.

Bringing the Yankees into this because they play in the same city is an egregious and weird stretch.

There’s also the fact that Utley slid so late that he never completed his slide and collided into Tejada. At least Coghlan actually slid.

You’re correctly calling Burneko to task, which means that this post will at some point get buried at the bottom underneath a bunch of gladhanding ‘right on, Burneko!!!!! ur the best!!!’ posts.

Here’s the account of Awful Announcing, a sports-media blog or some shit: