I am generally pretty skeptical of the idea that anyone—especially those in working in an entertainment function—“deserve” any specific quantity of pay over and above what the market is willing to pay, what ticket buyers and advertisers are willing to spend dollars on.

Actually that paragraph does not establish a requirement to slide, just an absolute exculpation if he does

This is a ridiculous stance by Barry and MLB, and it establishes a terrible precedent—one that would let fielders with no ball in hand establish moving picks into runners going down basepaths

Buster Posey was holding the ball and standing on top of the plate, ready to tag the guy.

Champagne is what poor people think rich people drink

The women’s team should absolutely earn more for their world cup than the men did, which I assume was nothing

Learn the difference between profits and revenues, at least before you write about them

Seek help for what? I’m not the one who’s complaining about how laws work

There is a legal procedure for seeking asylum. Going rogue and entering the US without following that procedure is illegal. It would be illegal the other way if an American tried it in Mexico or in any other country in the world.

Dr. Pepper 10 btw tastes great

He was in what everyone calls an internment camp, whose existence was a violation of the constitutional rights of US citizens, but they were not gassed like the Jews, Gypsies, and gays of Europe.

*That’s another $23 billion dollars stolen from black students whose parents pay the same state and federal taxes as white students.*

On the Rooney Rule, if you’re going to add all that context on McNair’s comments, you might also remember that their GM for the first 11 years was Rick Smith

So nothing in the last 15 years and one of them (Air Canada) was a direct result of switching to metric

I was reminded exactly of this when I saw the pitcher chasing that bunt

Nostalgic for the era when  this website offered full time Barbaro coverage

What a shock that a lazy fat fuck writes for Splinter—his whole worldview is informed by his belief that people aren’t agents of their own destiny but victims of the forces of history, like some Tolstoy character.

This isn’t an ad—it’s a post by ‘Shep’ McCallister

The EU approach to regulating big American tech companies is to fine them randomly and continually, i.e. they shake them down instead of getting them to adhere to whatever regulation they make up on the spot and enforce after the fact.

The EU continually issues ad hoc fines on large American tech companies because they can’t figure out a way to tax them. These fines are usually on the order of billions of euros.