Lots of commenters here apparently don’t know this very basic baseball rule.

Trainer: What’s your name?

a) We’re curious about when we’ll get to read the next installment of GRRM’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy saga, and the best thing about being reporters is that we get paid to rudely ask about things we’re curious about. We have zero interest in stressing our friend GRRM out, but do feel obliged to ask…

Yes, they said it was a complete tear.

[endless, thunderous, earth-shaking fart noise]

The answer is that we make the website we want, and our readers overwhelmingly approve of it. If it’s not the version of Deadspin you’d design for yourself, that’s not the consensus view, either among the staff or among the broader readership.

Yeah, the pilot is one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

The show benefitted - tremendously - from an incredibly intense pilot. It hooked us and drew us into Naz’s plight right away, even though it fumbled almost every opportunity borne from that intensity in almost every episode that followed.

Often hinted at but never confirmed, there are cults west of Route 81 in Virginia that worship beast of prey that do not have teeth or beaks. In honor of such beasts, members of the cults remove all their teeth, and refer to themselves as the Gummies. Recently, the Pulaski Yankees ran a Gummy Bear promotion, which was…

If it doesn’t happen already, something cute and fuzzy should have to die any time the “only 10 mins of action in 3 hour time frame” hot take is vomited out of somebody’s face hole.

Now we now why the damn pool turned green

Additionally, the show has revealed how many players appear to shun basic science.

Even the Saints are smart enough to know that just the thought of this is funny.....

Germans have a weird affinity for red and black color schemes.

No surprise here. In Asia most dogs end up being really good sliders.

I remembered when I played baseball I had a pretty standard routine for each at bat. First, I’d stand outside the box, tap the sides with the tip of my toe. I’d step in, line the bat up with the back edge of the plate. Then I’d swing at three straight pitches, go back to the dugout and cry uncontrollably until we were…

Darren McFadden should have won the Heisman in ‘06 and there is no case at all for Troy Smith being better than him.

Not even sure this is a “take” but I firmly believe that HBO (let’s be honest, this would be right up Starz’s alley) should pay for and air uncensored sports broadcasts.