The point is that will a salary cap, if you pay Elliot more, you are going to have to pay someone else less (who is probably working just as hard). If you want to be an effective team, there’s no room for sentimentality there.

though none will be found beneath this moron’s byline

This entire discourse has reeked of “everybody involved desperately needs to Log Off For Like Two Days” and truly, that’s what we should do. 

Milton Friedman is the switch. The idea corporations are only responsible for shareholders equity means increasing share price is the only thing that matters. 

I used to handle budgets for my department at my old gig, and for years as long as we continued to hit 20% profit or better, the powers that be left us alone. Then overnight, we were told 35% or better, which was/is completely impossible in that field. My department was laid off in batches over the course of three…

“the classic deadspin contrarian opinion...literally every journalist, and website for nerds calls it classic”

Ray Ratto’s kid’s real name is, naturally, Raychyl.

There will be writing because there will be reading. Because if we don’t have that, the asteroid may as well come and turn this society into the smoking charcoal briquette it deserves to be.

I don’t really know when this switch was flipped, but it is no longer important or good for a business/company to just make a profit. Somehow, someway, they have to make more than that, as there is always a way to make more, people and consequences be damned.

I’ll always have my Beckett subscription to rely on.  Got a bullish feeling on my Jose Canseco Rated Rookie getting its value back.

If this was really a Joker movie for our time, it would have been about a psychopathic grifter who convinced a bunch of VC firms to fund a venture that was actually designed to kill people.

Ray, as always, bringing the goods. I hope you get another full-time gig soon, although I really look forward to your stuff here.

That promotional photo, which I’ve seen frikkin’ everywhere, tells me all I need to know about this film. If I were to watch it, I wouldn’t see the Joker, I’d see Joaquin Phoenix AAAAAAAHHHHCCCCTTTTIIIINNNNGGG.

I sank with the ship when Sporting News went under, sucks to see it happen to SI too.

That interception got better with every replay. The skill to keep it aloft, the turn of his body to finish the catch, the look on his face as he’s turning to make that catch, his teammate throwing their hands up in celebration of what he just witnessed. Then he ran around slapping hands of the people by the end zone,…

The UK feed is awesome! Someone told me about it last year and it’s the only way I’ll watch the games on Prime now.

Amazon Prime lets you choose British commentary from Derek Rae and Tommy Smyth if you prefer. Also Hannah Storm/Andrea Kremer is another option. At the risk of being extremely obvious, both are vast upgrades over Joe Buck.

Jesus, that was an incredible play and Joe Buck made it sound as exciting as eating corn flakes in a bowl of lukewarm milk.

That’s one of the craziest interceptions I’ve seen at a game, and I’ve had season tickets since ‘98.

I believe the game following the interception  would properly be classified as denouement. You get taken over by ONE shitty VC form and suddenly your sports blog full of dick jokes is too good for classical story elements and their proper naming conventions.