So I clicked on that link about Jackson “want[ing] his players to be more like Mozart than Coltrane,” which led me to his autobiography, where I see this passage:

Microwave popcorn!? The on-air talent of Foodspin doesn’t cook that shit on the stove, like a real man?

Yeah, I think they need to at least consider it, and if they got a combination of immediate major-league help plus some sort of long-term controllable help (i.e., prospects), I’d probably be in favor. It’s tough to give up two controllable years of shut-down reliever, but those are going to be expensive years…

Harvey’s Wallbangers! Great team nickname.

Should our Orioles be looking to trade Britton?

Did anyone on the Deadspin staff think that it was odd a couple weeks ago that Dave McKenna tried to correct my reference to the Tippy Martinez game by calling it the “Len Sakata game”? And is everyone on the Deadspin staff as jealous as I am that he was there? I’d like to say that I was only 8 years old, and thus…

Leonsis purchased 100 percent of the Capitals and 44 percent of the Wizards and Verizon Center from the late Abe Pollin in 1999 and acquired the remaining stakes in 2010. Largely because of the unfavorable mortgage...

Mordecai Peter Centennial “Three-Finger” Brown is probably the greatest name the world has ever seen, and is unquestionably the best name ever for a pitcher.

Dammit. This just makes me more upset about the Nevada Legislature and Governor falling all over themselves to give Sheldon Adelson and the NFL 750 million goddamned dollars. Because that deal has fallen from the public eye a bit in the last 10 days or so, I write to point out that, in the days just after they voted…

1983 Orioles! Do you remember where you were for the Tippy Martinez game? That remains probably the best game in regular-season history, for all teams, in all sports.

I’m late to the party commenting on this article, but as a Reno resident who’s spent my ten years or so in Nevada listening to politicians and lobbyists and anti-tax ideologues constantly tell us that we can’t have a modest increase in a hotel tax to help alleviate some of the problems of our overcrowded, crumbling…

And apparently when I say “Fuck these fucking assholes” (paraphrasing), I mean, “No, REALLY, fuck these fucking assholes.” Specifically, fuck these fucking assholes, and their fucking asshole president speaking for them.

These fucking assholes. Anytime somebody proposes raising a hotel tax to support, say, public education, or some other social service, the casinos and the chamber-of-commerce types and the knee-jerk anti-all-taxes-all-the-time types shout out that doing so will CRUSH the poor underdog tourism industry in our poor…

According to the announcer, “One of the craziest double plays you can ever see in a minor league baseball game!” Raising the question: were it a major league game, or a Little League game, or an amateur wood bat league game, or anything other than a minor league game, would it not have been as crazy?

We have bison in Nevada?

Thanks for linking to this archive! I thought these columns had all disappeared long ago. A commenter commented a couple weeks ago about Deadspin needing more writing by Scocca, and I meant to reply to agree—I discovered his writing in the City Paper when I was living in Baltimore in the late ‘90s, and he quickly…

As always, I respectfully disagree with a Deadspin writer’s Ayn Rand-style market fetishism applied to a sports league.

My likely tepid take is manifold: (1) Pete Rose is an asshole, gym-class-hero type for doing things like knocking out Ray Fosse in an exhibition game. (2) Pete Rose is unquestionably and objectively the Major League Baseball “Hit King,” and the fact that he has way more MLB at-bats than Ichiro doesn’t make him NOT the…

What’s up with Deadspin’s constant market fetishism regarding amateur drafts? To me, amateur drafts are a good thing—if every amateur player was a free agent, US sports leagues would turn into European soccer leagues, and as much as I enjoy watching European soccer, the title races in those leagues are dismal, with…

This Copa America does seem to me to be a shameless, cynical money grab (didn’t they just play a regular Copa America last year?), and I don’t particularly care about the results, but I’m enjoying it anyway, and I think it’d be awesome if CONCACAF and CONMEBOL de-emphasize their traditional federation championships…