lol exactly. this joke is good, to me, because the violent racist police state is not a cancer endemic to the whole of American society but an abstract problem that can be conveniently isolated among fans of a baseball team I happen to not like. there are no black Cardinals fans. remember how Mike Brown was famously…

“I don’t want to (start) the fight there by acting like a punk,” Maddon said. “I don’t want us to take a page out of ‘Major League’ and flamboyantly flip a bat after a long home run. I don’t want that at all, that has nothing to do with us ascending. I would even like to use this moment even for our minor-league guys…

In the La Russa era, this would’ve been at least somewhat more defensible. But it’s just completely at odds with reality in the last four years. Tally up all the moralizing/fun police/unwritten rules incidents over that time period and I guarantee you the Cardinals would be no higher than average and probably in the…

“The Cardinals are bigger assholes about unwritten rules than most other teams” continues to be commenterese for “I don’t watch much baseball.”

I feel pretty confident characterizing “Contrary to common sense and extant reporting and basic arithmetic this player turned down tens of millions of dollars to get away from you because you’re bad people who live in a miserable shithole” as trolling, yeah.

Yeah I’m pretty clearly talking about the actual trolling in the last couple paragraphs—you know, because I directly responded to that and not anything else?—but okay.

You’re definitely smart enough to realize this and just didn’t want it to get in the way of the trolling, but for all the readers who aren’t:

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C:\Users\commenter69 > run “Cardinals_joke.exe”

“I don’t want to (start) the fight there by acting like a punk,” Maddon said. “I don’t want us to take a page out of ‘Major League’ and flamboyantly flip a bat after a long home run. I don’t want that at all, that has nothing to do with us ascending. I would even like to use this moment even for our minor-league guys…

translated from the Narrativese: “I haven’t watched the Cardinals in the last couple of seasons at all.”

The argument implicit in the Vox piece seems to be that the paid advertising a publication accepts is a truer test of its values than the editorial content it runs, which is so bizarre, and so Vox.

I’m as disillusioned with Stewart as anyone, but the notion that the viewing public should have just been already not only hip to the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of TV news but perfectly okay with it is a product of the same sort of blinkered, insider-y, know-it-all presumption that Stewart’s critics, here and…

You covered your team’s dumb, embarrassing scandal for one of the most influential sports websites in the world. One of the reasons why I think a lot of Cardinals fans feel compelled to speak up is that—just statistically speaking, as a smaller market—there are always going to be far fewer media voices out there…

A guy who does play-by-play on Fox for a couple hours a week, and has no other media presence to speak of besides a TV show that was canceled after three episodes six years ago, plays virtually no role in the way opinions about sports are formed and spread in this day and age, and since we’re having this discussion in…

The main difference is that you have dozens of fellow Boston fans in highly influential positions in sports media to help bear the brunt of the nonsense and push a counternarrative. We have Will Leitch.

This is the appropriate course of action for an organization and fanbase that have gone out of their way to brand themselves as special and different from the rest of us.

This is a serious thing no matter who did the hacking, but the NYT report says that it happened from “a home that some Cardinals officials had lived in,” and I doubt that a group of people who qualify as “executives” were sharing a house or apartment together.

a) Fuck this picture and everyone involved in taking it.