It’s true that people can be very smart and deeply religious. And, IMO, there’s room to say “Well, we’re here so something created us and I call that thing God.” That’s not crazy; I have a hard time sharing that belief, but I don’t have any more of an idea of how we got here than anyone else. So, there’s room for sane…

Relying on faith is almost the opposite of rational thought, isn’t it? You have faith that something you can’t prove exists, but that faith is not evidence that proves anything beyond the fact you have faith in something that you cannot prove even exists, let alone exists as told in a collection of stories that’s at…

I like the ineluctable you’re bringing to the table, Sir.

My nephew’s named Dick and my family and I love to get pictures of him. What’s wrong with pictures of Dick?

I think Simmons is not bothered . . . yet. He will be when this HBO show turns into a dumpster fire.

Katie doesn’t take herself so fucking seriously though. You know that Simmons had Grantland pieces put out in a quarterly tome like it belonged in the Smithsonian or something? Simmons is his own biggest fan and, unless you’re James Brown, Prince, or Rick James, that usually ends up with you being a pompous blowhard.

The strange thing is, though, I’m so sick of Simmons that if he’s against billionaires getting free stadiums on my nickel, it almost makes me think “hmmmm . . . maybe I’ve been too hard on the billionaires. Maybe they DO need a free stadium and fuck Simmons too!”

THAT. He was great when he was bitching about Grady Little and was basically a suffering fan. That was great because everyone could relate. When Boston teams won it all, and he wrote about the 24/7 orgasm he had, I was like “fuck this guy in the nose hole” and he got so damn obnoxious that now I can’t even look at the…

How is Simmons thriving? He more or less got shitcanned from ESPN and is having to start from scratch at HBO and, based on this, his prospects are bleak. That’s not quite thriving, in my book.

He’s definitely pale, but I attribute some of it to shitty lighting.

Towards the end, the only thing I liked about Simmons was him overseeing the 30 for 30 stuff. That stuff was great, even the depressing shit like the one about all those fans that got crushed at an English soccer game.

Yep, you can only do the “If the Boston Red Sox was the cast of the Shawshank Redemption, Curt Schilling would be Andy Dufrense” bullshit so many times before readers just start saying please STFU.

There will be no escape from all the ineluctable that I’ll be bringing to Deadspin.

Well, you have to give Reid credit for using “ineluctable” in his story. I have no idea what that means, but I assume he used it correctly. I’m going to try and use ineluctable in every post I make here from now on.

It doesn’t sound implausible to me. If Griffin had concerns, it makes sense to hear him out, even if he’s going about it in a bizarre way. What do you think Shanahan should have done? Told him to STFU? That would not have gone over well, either.

You’re probably right, but I’ve always thought that Sanders entered with the idea that he had no prayer of winning but just wanted to pull Clinton to the left and at least get these issues on the table.

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas after all.

Ha! He didn’t “face” Reaves because he had his head tucked in the whole time. I agree he is bruiseless today but he did have a weird sort of glazed look on his face while he was sitting on the ice.

Of course I did, and gave my summary above. McKenzie got tossed around like a rag doll little bitch, which is not surprising because that’s what he is. Look at Russel’s face in that picture? He’s laughing at McKenzie, and that’s his own teammate!

Which they received as a reward for paying for something.