NO BLUE-BALLERS I KNOW WHAT I HAVE

Without “negative Twitter” I never would have seen this Vine (RIP) and known, without a doubt, that I’m headed right to hell via first class.

Maddon has been absolutely awful all series. Refusing to pinch-hit for Schwarber against Miller when he can’t hit lefties, not using Heyward’s historically great defense in RF in the name of reverse splits, murdering Baez’s plate discipline by batting him before the pitcher, having Miguel Montero on the roster, and of…

Heyward used to play the game the right way. Now he’s just a glory boy.

I’m reminded of how the Red Sox used Keith Foulke in 2004. It worked. They won. But Foulke was never the same.

I don’t follow baseball that closely, but didn’t guys used to pitch entire games? I feel like what I’ve heard about Chapman makes it sound like he’s incredibly babied. He wants advanced noticed of when he’s going in and for how long and they apparently don’t want him throwing a bunch of pitches (unless they decide…

....and Shwarber to the Sox as their DH.

Every couple decades we get a Jack Morris like performance. I think you’re getting that tomorrow night.

Unless your name is Bumgarner, Madison.

Listen, America:

Cubs sweep, 7th game, my uncle just called it!

Nobody is denying that art matters or that the content of art matters. You’re asking if it’s okay to rob fictional characters of their fictional dignity. The answer is yes. It’s perfectly fine precisely because it doesn’t matter in the real world if a fictional character is robbed of their fictional dignity because it…

Mark Buehrle probably would have finished the game, given his post-game comments, and already been on the way home.

The entire argument here falls back on you trying to convince me that fiction matters and that fiction is worthy of critical analysis. That is not an idea I’m disputing. In fact, agree with it! That’s what makes all this bullshit all the more infuriating!

No, that’s not what’s happening. A cursory read of the reactions in question would reveal that. Even the very first link says Westworld is “presenting compelling women and then subjecting them to scenarios that rob them of their dignity”. So what? Who cares? They’re not real! Their dignity doesn’t matter! The article…

You mean Mark Buerhle?

The treatment of women and minorities in fiction isn’t real. People react to it as if it is. This, specifically, is what is being criticized here, not art criticism. Complaining about what happens in a work of fiction isn’t art criticism, it’s entitled fandom bullshit.

Except it’s dangerous and I’ve seen more than my fair share blow out tires ahead of me on the highway.

The motherfuckers don’t even work. That’s why they’re out at the fuckin’ game. They oughta go out and get a fuckin’ job and find out what it’s like to go out and earn a fuckin’ living. Eighty-five percent of the fuckin’ world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A fuckin’ playground for the…