I’m totally okay with The Concourse (this is not Deadspin) regularly covering current events as it always has. But the bulk of HamNo’s “analysis” lately has indeed been lazy and sketchy on facts. Which is a shame, because sometimes there’s a good point hidden under all the nonsense, but I’m facepalming too hard to dig…

Here we have an article about monopsony where the author doesn’t bother to define the term and probably doesn’t know what the term means. It means the market has one *buyer* for a particular good, the counterpart of “monopoly” where there is one *seller* for a particular good. (It is not “monopoly-lite, when one…

 He’s from Australia, for crying out loud, not whatever stereotype Kevin was reaching for. I get that Kevin needed a first sentence, but that was weak. 

That’s actually the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

Josh Frown

As a White Sox fan, I forget where I was going with this.

That is far too simplistic.

This is a common & lazy misconception among people (usually transplants themselves) who can’t grasp the difference between “people who live in Wrigleyville/Lakeview” and “Cubs fans”

Counterpoint: LOL No.

bad doesn’t mean hot

If the question was about visiting Wyoming, then a sample of people in Wyoming wouldn’t be random in the context of the question. The original point is right not only for a reasonable definition of “sample” but also for a reasonable definition of “random”.

I have a very strong feeling you are the only Deadspin commenter who knew that off the top of your head.

Let’s not forget that the internet outrage engine, which frequently includes the former members of Gawker Media, is more interested in kabuki and pounds of flesh than real impact because it’s easier to take credit and pat oneself on the back for immediate overt policy changes than longer-term, hard to measure changes…

We have an electoral college, designed explicitly to ensure that the popular vote can be thwarted; we base those electoral college votes on states, rather than on population;

This game was at Red Bull Arena. The home of, you know, an MLS team.

????? How is it automatically wrong to quote Hitler? She was using it to compare Planned parent hood to the Hitler. I don’t agree with that comparison at all, but it’s not wrong to study Nazi propaganda or their methods to compare it against current events.

I have no witty comment. I’m just a Cubs fan who has enjoyed the heck out of watching him play this season. We never have players like this.

Loved the Andrus/Beltre moment between him and Rizzo when he seemingly taunted Rizzo on the pop fly and then Rizzo flipped the ball at him in retaliation only to find that Baez is the second coming of Dottie Hinson.

Shut the fuck up about Arsenal, no one gives a shit.

35k canadian?