Joe Maddon is one of the most gracious gentlemen in the world if thinks there's anything Joe West would be good at.

Give credit to the Dodgers for some ferocious plate discipline, especially the guys who walked with two strikes on them. Two strikes, two out, down a run in the bottom of the ninth. You have to be pretty cold to hold back on just about any pitch within reach in that situation.

People, please — learn the English language. “Strangle” is a dramatic word, but that’s not what the guy did. If he had strangled her she would be dead, not unconscious. “Strangle” means to kill by choking. Words have meanings, and when we’re OK with distorting those meanings to make things sound more dramatic or…

Joe isn’t an asshole, is he?

Bauer “tweets like a 16 year girl on her period”? Deadspin, hire this woman!

You’re bananas.

The Athletic says Richt was told recently he wouldn’t be calling plays next year and the OC would be free to make staff changes. The AD might not actually be as surprised as he says he is.

“... the fans’ grievance stems from their dissatisfaction about ... how things seem to be increasingly moving toward a raw profit-maximization focus at the expense of the fans’ interests ...”

Regardless of he’s suffering from, the last thing he needs now, and probably for the rest of his life, is having people bang on his head repeatedly. 

Could you PLEASE stop running that jerk’s picture every time you write about him? It’s creeping me out.

Great job, State News. 

Enough with the Mets already. They’re a shitty team, we get it. We got it after the first 500 stories Deadspin posted about them this season. Here’s a bulletin for you: No one outside New York gives a fuck. If Deadspin were really going to be an alternative to ESPN and the TV networks, you guys wouldn’t obsess over…

Cause-and-effect question: Did this happen “three days after his ex-wife filed a domestic violence civil protection order against him” ... or did it happen “immediately after he became yet another became another embarrassment for the university”? You don’t get fired from a big-time college football program for…

“The testers did find the Model 3 to be exciting to drive, at least.”

Another difference: Wright has apparently owned up to what he did, which essentially eliminates any doubts about what happened. Sano denies that anything happened, making it a he-said/she-said situation with no objective evidence to clarify it. This, too, is not a good look for MLB: Take responsibility for your…

Come on, think bigger. The problem isn’t that the athletes aren’t getting any of the money. The problem is the money, period.

Moody’s column didn’t reflect the values of Fox News because it didn’t call for the darker, gayer and different members of the team to be jailed or shot by the police.

Great job of recognizing some films as sadly forgotten today as they were overlooked by the Academy (Ace in the Hole and Alphaville in particular).

Glad to hear nobody cares about Excel any more. I’ve never figured that damn thing out.

“For the longest time, I thought it was just the way I was and nothing could change it.”