The sheer amount of people pointlessly worried about treating a stain like Stephens with any kind of dignity or respect is hilarious.

Dressed up garbage is still garbage. Stop being so easily impressed by garbage. You’re basically as easily distracted by the window dressing of his tedious, condescending, sniveling response as a cat is by a laser pointer.

It’s actually one of the most obnoxious debate tactics taken by garbage people these days; say…

This is nonsense.

Can one really counter rings?

Hmmmm.

Sure, but come on...deep down, you know you do.

But you kinda deserve it.

Wait, you took this dump of a take TWICE?  What, were you in a hurry to show your ass or something?

Who is driving car?!?

Ah, but the hitters are doing this largely because they can get away with it because the pitchers dictate the pace, and most pitchers take fucking forever between pitches.  Basically no pitcher is going to object to a batter essentially given them even more time to dick around on the mound, so the pitch clock will…

Goddammit; I just realized I typed “pace of place.”  I blame it on daydreaming about Nomar’s batting glove routine.

There’s only one solution:

Counterpoint; the pitch clock is a fucking great idea, and pretty much the only one of the laundry list of pace of place suggestions that actually would work to shave some time off of the games. I thought this was a pretty good breakdown:

Stop trying so hard, TomatoFace.

Because usually people zeroing in on or repeatedly looking to bash Islam under the banner of “I hate all religions,” “coincidentally” seem to focus pretty much all of that sentiment on one religion. There’s a difference in being (rightly, IMO)critical or disdainful of the institution of religion, and then using that…

Because the vast majority of people who are prejudiced against Muslims just assume/look at anyone who is from or looks/acts “Middle Eastern” must be some kind of terrifying Jihadi. You know damn well that the type of people who flip out over someone simply being Muslim (or who they think is Muslim) isn’t going to have…

Oh, grand; yet another variation of, “the REAL intolerance is the intolerance of intolerance.”  Fantastic.

Come on; pre-gentrifcation Wrigleyville sucked, too.

And some of the most expensive tickets in all of sports, too!  Ooooh, but can’t spend any of that money on someone like Harper!

Yeah, I’m long past the point of not wanting to spend another dime on this team after a lifetime of fandom.  Fuck ‘em.  Between the Ricketts’ garbage and the front office’s willful blind spot to shitheads like Chapman, Murphy and Russell, I’m done.