“Many of those premium players are available via free agency and trade, every single year, and they prefer going to good teams rather than bad ones.”

I’m in line with Deadspin ideologically on just about everything, but Hinkie is a major exception. I really do think that, in spite of how painful it was, he had the right idea for maximizing the team’s chance at an eventual championship. Obviously a #1 pick is never guaranteed, but most of the real impact players go…

This is a dumb thing that Deadspin has tried to make into a running gag, and it’s just not working because they’ve taken the exactly incorrect stance. It would be like trying to do a pro-Cardinals or pro-Cincinnati chili gag.

“Was Odor’s punch a sucker punch!?!?

Guys, stop flagging Samer’s comments. I’m not going to ban him.

Hey, maybe if I wasn’t normally such a fan of the site that I follow it on Twitter and Facebook so that the spoiler title had an extra two chances to do its work, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. No reason to be a dick about it, particularly when the article doesn’t exist for any reason other than to be a spoiler.

Hey, thanks for the fucking spoiler right in the title.

Do Not Masturbate While Seated

You are such a fucking moron. I hate your writing so fucking much. It physically pains me that anybody pays you money to publish your drivel.