I’m amused by all of the apologists for white Christian affirmative action. Finally, one of those guys gets a break!

Nonsense — if they are better than Tebow, and have better long-term prospects they deserve to be there. This isn’t about being the better players at their age level “at one time.” This is about being better now.

Why do people ascribe emotion to opinions? I am no more upset than you are. I think him having that slot is absurd and ridiculous. I’m no more “upset” about it than I am about 95% of the opinions that I have. We have no idea who is being blocked. Tebow does not belong there. Someone else could have that slot. I don’t…

But almost all of them proved themselves to be worthy of getting the shot, and we have no idea looking at any given single A roster which guys might or might not make it. Tebow has not earned that shot to fail, but he has been given it.

Nonsense. Almost all of the guys in that league were drafted either from high school or college where they were definitionally among the very top athletes in the sport at those age levels. Every single one of them has a claim to a spot before Tebow, who had his gifted to him. The Mets can do what they want. But that…

No, seriously, I think one of us is making a lazy, stupid argument, but it’s not me. When an NBA team hires a 40-year old on a ten-day contract it is almost always someone with NBA experience who has already worked their way through the system. If you have a comparable example to Tebow, please let’s hear it. If you…

99.9%? Where are you getting that statistic from?

If the number is 6-7 guys making the Majors, then we are talking 25% of any given Single A roster. And who knows right now which of those players will end up as one of the 6 or 7. is Tebow taking the place of a Mike Piazza? We don’t know.

In a merit-based system guys who are better than Tebow with better upside “deserve” to be on that roster more than Tebow. And yes, a small minority of players from every minor league make the majors. Yet hundreds of players have gone from the South Atlantic League to the Majors, including more than two dozen Hall of…

I’m happy to blame the Mets as well. There is blame to go around. Again, tebow is choosing to take this place. His defenders don’t get to put him above criticism when he chooses to take it (and work it around his broadcasting career, by the way.)

Yeah, he actually is. The roster size is constant, and so it is a zero-sum game. Far more, in fact, than public college scgolarships, which can always be divided. And I love how you dismiss the SALLY league, as if players do not regularly climb a minor league ladder that begins in places like rookie ball, the South…

And take the spot of any one of thousands of recent high school and college players more deserving than he is. Don’t forget that in your little “poor Timmy, victim of mean old Deadspin” lamentation.

That’s funny because A-Rod is a boy and girls use tampons and comparing a boy to a girl is a way of insulting them. Ha.

Generations of white men give speeches, get paid handsomely, you and I could not name five of those speeches in the history of the Republic. The woman and the black guy do it, “hey, wait a minute now ...”

You seem awfully aggressive toward me with absolutely no cause. I write about sport and politics. I am well fucking aware of the history of these things in Boston. I decided not to write a book about it in the Deadspin comments. I never played the persecution card, and agree with most of what you said in direct…

Yep. The Celtics were ahead of the curve on nearly every racial issue — first black superstar, first black starting five, first black head coach. The Red Sox were behind on nearly every racial issue. You are 100% right —- it’s complicated.

This is a hot take about hot takes.

Hey, editor — you’re missing at least one comma in your comment about someone else’s shitty writing ability.

“Jesus, Jan. Every Sunday at church in your goddamned jersey, and now I have to live with this shit forevermore? Fuckin’ Yinzers.” — Mickey

I would argue that basketball culture, starting with Jordan, did far more to push “athleisure” (what a hideous neologism) than yoga.