You don’t get practice swings during play, and the ball was still live. The pitcher released the ball, and it was still moving in fair territory when the batter swung. That is a rulebook strike, and the umpire has to call that no matter how silly it looks.

Think about this, had that ball not been thrown, would the batter still have taken a swing? If that particular pitch had been 95 mph and over his head, would the batter still have taken a swing? I’d argue no, in both cases. Strike three, good call by the ump.

......As opposed to those ever-so-frequent decoy swings without any intent to hit the ball? What?

As a person of color and a fan of rap this attack on Post kind of pisses me off. He’s really respected in the rap game and has worked with a lot of the biggest names in the industry. Rap culture has changed probably more than any other musical category and that’s why it’s completely acceptable for a white artist to…

I actually created an account just to respond to this article. Fine, it’s funny to laugh that Allen Iverson hasn’t heard the song before. But to generalize Post Malone’s music and his fanbase as white dirtbag teens is kind of insane. Post made one of the more groundbreaking albums of 2016, it’s called Stoney, go look…

Counterpoint: White Iverson is a great song with some great basketball metaphors and Post Malone is a refreshing artist these days.

Get’em SJW!

Deadspin: “Baseball beefs are so weak!!!!!!”

depends on why you feel that way—if you feel that way because you think vaginas are gross and you don’t want to put your mouth near one for that reason, you might not be as straight as you think you are. the alternatives are gay or asexual.

... although he was kind enough to sign the ball for Brustman

Though it’s possible that’s what he was getting at, and I’d agree that would be shitty, I don’t think it’s inherently misogynistic to say the author of this piece exhibited a general lack of knowledge about baseball, given that ...

My wife recently got mad at me because I called her “ridiculous” when she asked me if she could come to Vegas to our friend’s bachelor party, since he was “(her) friend before (I) ever met him”.

As I’ve posted elsewhere here, anything above the letters is definitely not ok. If you want to counter with: “but how do you know the pitcher won’t miss and unintentionally hit a guy upstairs when he meant to intentionally hit him low?” I would answer that in a situation like this Teheran is throwing a fastball with…

A person paid to report on sports just published a fucking article that describes a completely mundane and everyday baseball occurrence, one seen numerous times on every baseball broadcast in the last 40 years, as a malicious signal to bean a batter. It is, in fact, the stupidest goddamn article in the history of…

CORRECTION: Due to an editing error a general lack of baseball knowledge, this post originally characterized Flower’s inside-fastball sign as a visual order to hit Bautista.

Headline should read “Author Who is Not Familiar with Baseball Misconstrues Normal Pitch Call”

No, I got it. It was just a dumb point.

A fastball to the thigh of a major league baseball player is so innocuous that even Jose Fuckin Bautista simply removed his padding and took his base. If HE doesn’t react to it how bad can it be?

Girl Writer: HE POINTED AT HIM!

Congratulations on the stupidest fucking article in the history of deadspin. A real accomplishment. Have you ever seen a baseball game before? If you had, you would literally see this exact signal dozens of times on inside pitches where batters were not plunked. He’s not pointing at him in any way.