Schilling threw 1000 more innings than Ellis, and where Ellis pitched in some of the lowest scoring years in baseball history, Schilling pitched in some of the most run-friendly environments. As you can see by the fact that Schilling’s ERA+ is 127 to Ellis’ 104. Like... come on, dude. Schilling had a very good peak…

Are you familiar with literally any details of the last 70 years of Chinese history

Neither of the Lukas Graham songs on this list is even the worst Lukas Graham song (Strip No More), which is a testament to how pestilential they are

2 out of those 4 teams are good and fun to watch

Poll finds that Democrats most likely to recognize names of 3 most prominent Democrats

Even if Melo does have a problem with it, it’s hard to see the percentage in pissing him off by airing it publicly when the team is playing well as a unit

So, are you still furious at Rick Hahn

yeah, obviously Beal as the centerpiece of a larger package. Probably a first and a second, or two firsts, or a first and any non-Otto Porter player the Kings might want (if there’s actually anyone they would want).

I think about the only hope they have going forward is a Beal for Cousins trade, which, call me crazy but I don’t think that’s impossible. I mean, Sacramento has to trade him at some point. Probably helps you keep Wall around as well if you have Cousins.

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The reason the end of Trading Places is so satisfying is because the Dukes were getting away with this kind of shit for years and years, only to have Billy Ray and Winthorpe use it against them and enrich themselves in the process. They totally get away with it. The system works! Corruption is fine so long as…

This is about as close to an actual king’s ransom as you can get in MLB in 2016, I think - even before you get into the fact that the White Sox had very little leverage. It was obvious they needed to trade Sale and they still got a great prospect haul.

Deadspin’s committment to Sam Hinkie being both wrong about everything, and mockable in all circumstances, is really weird and dumb

The problem is that the Democratic Party, in reality, is not some sort of abstracted ideal body. What we’re really talking about is a broad collection of different groups of people, in the left-leaning half of American society, with a wide range of views and identities and ways of communicating and relationships with…

I think it’s kind of a genuinely difficult question. The thing is that, you know, I agree that in a lot of cases, it might be more tactically useful to be more generous about stuff. But I also think that - as you say - the objections that people raise are often factually right. And I think it’s hard to tell people not…

the reason people are angry about the joke is because people think it’s important to stand up for transgender rights, and the point of the joke is (or seems to be) that transgender rights are silly and not worth caring about or fighting for

I agree that the Democrats can’t only be the party of anti-racism and anti-homophobia. They need to provide a more thoroughgoing narrative.

The answer to the escape from Alcatraz (at least the famous one that Clint Eastwood made a movie about) is “They definitely drowned”. There is absolutely no mystery there.