Not sure why this would be such a scandalous revelation. Thanks to that Verizon commercial, we’ve already seen JJ Watt handling his wood with fierce intensity.

To be fair, you deserved much worse for wearing a shirt of that evil team.

This is the most error-ridden Deadspin article since you guys said Brian McCann was angry at Carlos Gomez for admiring a homer/batflipping, instead of for staring down and screaming at all the infielders while rounding the bases.

You kind of missed the point of those examples. First of all, spare me the attempted defense of the tuck rule. It’s a bullshit rule, and there’s a reason it no longer exists. It’s true that Brady was able to make the most of his second chance in that game, but therein lies the issue—he shouldn’t have gotten a second…

This is an odd rebuttal, given that my example constituted an instance in which having a lower seed actually helped a team avoid a one-and-done. Sometimes there’s a lower-seeded opponent that you just don’t match up well against, and it might be helpful to get a lower seed yourself and avoid facing them in the first…

“One-and-dones” are a dumb stat to use. If you lost before the Super Bowl, you lost to a team in the same conference, and the fact that you didn’t lose to that team in the first round is entirely a function of seeding.

A case can be made that Peyton Manning's statistically a top ten playoff QB of all time, though. People overreact to three bad games.

*Red Sox fan

If you believe New England had nothing to do with it, I have beachfront property in Oklahoma I'd like to sell to you.

And then mysteriously started working again once someone from the Steelers walked over to complain. And then stopped working yet again once that person walked away.

There’s a difference between the visiting team’s headsets merely going out, and the visiting team’s headsets receiving the home team’s game broadcast followed by the transmission returning to normal once someone walks over to complain and then again receiving game broadcast once that person walks back.

This comment had me howling at the moon.

No, I’m virtually 100% certain it wouldn’t have, because the baseball world has been holding to a completely false narrative about him literally all this time. He got in Carlos Gomez’s face in that infamous incident because Gomez was yelling shit at all the infielders while rounding the bases. That’s what made him…

Bautista wasn’t yelling shit at the infielders while rounding the bases, so McCann wouldn’t care.

“here’s a PSA to any baseball managers who happen to read this: The rules allow you to pitch your best relievers whenever you want, and generally they should pitch in the most important situations.”

I’m no Cowboys fan, but damn! That’s going way overboard. Poor kid.

He also threw a bad interception in the red zone in the first quarter, and a bad interception on his own side of the field in the third quarter that gave Seattle great field position and led to a touchdown.

“Here’s the Patriots’ ranking in points scored between their last two Super Bowl titles: 10th, 7th, 1st, 8th, 6th, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 3rd.”

Didn’t basically the entire decade that elapsed between New England’s last two titles consist of Brady going ringless because his defense was no longer good enough to carry him? I mean, he put up otherworldly numbers in 2007, 2010 and 2011, and all it amounted to was two Super Bowl losses to freaking Eli and a…

The broadcaster also specifically called the catcher AJ, although I see how one might automatically assume that Chip Caray verbally fucked up again.