Total sour grapes here, but this series highlights what is, in my opinion, the only flaw in the current playoffs system: a mediocre team with one lights-out starter can advance to the divisional series over a more well-rounded team. The Giants were 2-0 in playoff games started by Madison Bumgarner; they were 0-3 in…

Javier Baez is the slickest player in the league. Sheffield’s bat with an outstanding glove in the middle infield. He can pretty much play every position aside from catcher or pitcher and even then he seems like he’d be game to try without hesitation. Unreal skill set (best tagger in the game!!!) and yet he was the…

The bright side to this is that Sanders (and others of his ilk, hopefully) can and will see that they need to be far more mobilized and organized earlier on for future endeavors; Hillary was FAR better at playing the game than Bernie, and there are lessons to learn from that. My fondest wish is to have a progressive…

Needs to be said over and over. Start running for/voting for third party candidates for those state reps, city councilpeople, state treasurer, etc. all of those “non-glamorous” offices. A third party candidate running for local office should be as common as Dems and Republicans. Get people use to the idea of seeing…

Fellow Democrats: if you want more liberal-leaning people at the top of the ticket, you need to vote more liberal people in down the ticket. That means showing up for primaries, that means actually knowing people’s policy positions, that means writing to your representatives about issues, that means grass-roots…

Why draw attention to this guy doing this, though? Don’t you think that has the potential to draw negative interest to this and get him in trouble?

Very much this. Seems like almost every article I read, I get to the end and they just kind of let the point trail off without completing the thought. Grantland was much better about turning that point into the whole story in a longform read.

Without Barnwell, Lowe, and Keri, their sports coverage just isn’t as good as Grantland’s was.

Agreed. In their attempt to be first, most of their stories come out lukewarm.

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It feels like The Ringer is tanking hard. If we’re looking at Facebook analytics, its stories rarely have any more likes or shares than your average community newspaper story. It has one-third of the likes on Facebook compared to Grantland and has seemingly doubled-down on the clickbait Taylor Swift gossip shit that…

Every article I read from there seems about 60% finished/thought out, and about 80% of the articles I see on the site don’t even seem newsworthy.

“What I don’t get is why The Ringer would help him do so.” Maybe the same reason why you do stuff, clicks and shit.

Ringer, I served with Grantland. I knew Grantland. Grantland was a friend of mine. Ringer, you’re no Grantland.

Yes, but the key term here is “think”. We are omnivores by nature but we’ve evolved.

How could you think it’s okay to kill animals for meat or commodification who do things like rescue and/or adopt animals from other species?

Anthony Davis now owns @TStricherz and seven generations of his descendants. Nice job, AD.

Those are good tweets. Every tweet should be as good as those.

It absolutely is, and gawker sites have been ignoring that fact from the beginning. This was a pretty great pick but he wasn’t “exciting” for gawker, whatever the fuck that means.

Doesn’t the guy have an impressive and important civil rights background, above everything else? Isn’t that kind of a helpful thing in this political climate and in the years to come?