Trump attacked the right of the players to protest in the first place. Showing unity with those players is an explicit rebuke to that claim, and the people kneeling are saying “we support their right to protest”. One of the huge issues with the protests’ effectiveness at this point has been widespread criticism of the…

I don’t think there is anything more predictable than a deadspin article attacking the NFL and Roger Goodell no matter what they do. This whole “they’re always evil, and everything they do is always bad” mentality is simplistic and tiresome.

Agreed. The idiots who shout “stop making football about politics!!” are conveniently ignoring that lots of other entities have been inserting politics into football for decades. Playing the national anthem is a political act. Promoting the military and actively schilling for army recruitment efforts are political…

What am I missing? I downloaded the app and don’t see the Flex Watch option anywhere. All I can do is input specific days of travel and it tells me how much it costs to fly on those days. I tried doing a trip to Cuba and couldn’t find a single combination of days that Hopper could find flights for. I’m sure I’m an…

Was this meant to be a response to the points I made? I understood what your implication was, and I pointed out why that was likely due to confirmation bias. When 55% of the players are white that means it will be shocking not to have examples of white players doing something. If your notion is that “something…

This sounds an awful lot like confirmation bias mixed with a skewed sample. I think something like 55% of players in MLB are white, so it would be surprising if you didn’t see a greater percentage of white players doing pretty much anything in the sport. Implying that it’s something INHERENTLY white, or that it’s…

This isn’t that complicated. Companies have every right not to wade into political disputes, and to attempt to minimize the damage when their brand is implicated in them. This is true EVEN WHEN I AGREE WITH THE POLITICAL MESSAGE BEING EXPRESSED. ESPN took a very mundane and reasonable step to say “listen, we don’t…

Agreed. The White House press conferences have become such a farce, but the reporters there used their time to ask for an official position on THIS issue? Sanders statement was despicable, so I’m not dismissing the response to what she said. But we really should demand more from our journalists as well. There’s a…

Exactly. How many previously anonymous people have been fired from their jobs after they say something stupid on social media and it goes viral? Those people were let go despite having no reason to know their comments would be seen by the broader public at large. Here, Hill was 100% aware that her post would be seen…

“And resigning herself to a private twitter for family, etc. doesn’t seem like the answer. She’s allowed a public voice like anyone else.”

I can’t stand listening to Gus Johnson call a game. We get it- sport is exciting. But freaking out every time somebody completes a 20 yard pass or runs for a first down is just exhausting. I can still remember screaming “SHUT UP!” at the television when listening to him call March Madness games.

I mean, as a DC native and Nats fan, I greatly enjoyed it :)

My thoughts exactly. Which makes his lackadaisical effort chasing the ball to the wall all the worse. Even with that laziness they STILL almost had Taylor at home. If he had put in a halfway decent effort Taylor either stays at third or is thrown out by a mile at home. Just a horrible, horrible play.

They didn’t even have reasonable suspicion of a shooting? I thought Bennett said in his twitter statement that he and everyone around heard gunshots. Are you saying that everyone is just making that up?

Hey guys, I found the jackass. What do I win?

Anybody else consistently have issues with embedded MLB videos on deadspin? I get the game audio in the background, but instead of the clip all I get are commercials playing on an endless loop.

So you called a bunch of people and got no information? Based off the headline I thought something actually happened. Nope- just a bunch of dead ends. I hope reporters don’t start reporting every time they have nothing to report.

“normies”

If we’re not supposed to root for people who think Melo is soft then who can we root for?

You must have a lot of issues with post-1960s basketball if you think that should have been called a carry. Either that, or you’re Patrick Ewing.