You mean the one employed by Fox Sports vs. the one employed by the Padres?

Yes! And we need to forgive James Harden for never playing defense....and for setting the NBA record for most turnovers in a season.

Honestly, I struggle to understand this defense of him, and I realize I’ll likely be in the minority here. First of all:

Unbiased doesn’t preclude wrongness. He did everything he could to avoid contact after chasing a rebound and generating a scoring chance. Spazzed out? You mean how he spun left to avoid as much of the contact as he could, and then rolled because of the contact with Crawford on his right leg? Toews didn’t push him hard…

I have to agree. In the heat of the moment stupid, thoughtless stuff flies out of people's mouths. It would be a different story if it was directed at someone who actually was gay but that does not appear to be the case.

I know it is a different time, but I think what is said on the ice, should stay on the ice. Should he have chosen a different word? Sure, but honestly it doesn’t matter at all. Too many sensitivity meters are running at 99%. A hockey rink is not your cubicle.

Someone got stabbed in some other city so Philly fans aren’t terrible. Got it.

Sorry “muslims are like Nazis” & “transgendered people are pedophiles” are more than stupid facebook memes.

A trader? Of what...baseball cards?

1. He could be fired for bigotry, insensitivity, hurting ESPN’s brand, actively going against ESPN’s own interests (e.g. again, insulting trans people while working for a network that has awarded a trans woman for courage), etc.

Exactly. ESPN can easily replace him as a baseball analyst (though they’d be hard-pressed to find someone as bigoted).

Really? Because I’m a Royals fan, and thus have no love for the Cardinals, yet this is the biggest driver of deadspin’s shtick wearing on me.

Everything you just mentioned is literally old-school peasant food. Keep complaining about “bourgeois food” while you buy boneless, skinless chicken breast at the grocery store EL OH EL.

The playoffs are about surviving attrition, you’d rather be dishing than receiving. As good as the Blues are, the top end talent on the Hawks is absurd and their chemistry is unreal, and the best way to disrupt that is by bruising ribs and creating doubt. Hits like the one Fabbri threw on Roszival are valuable,…

Yes, and there were many times last night where immediately after a big hit by the Blues the Hawks would go on an odd-man rush. It didn’t translate into goals last night, but you have to figure it will.

So checking is now considering gooning?

Ah yes, that’s Kobe, always sacrificing individual success for the good of the team.

The thing is, it’s sort of shitty trolling, isn’t it? I hate Kobe, too, and wish he fucked off long ago, but he had a legitimately great, entertaining career about which there’s plenty to shit on. ‘He wasn’t even the best in any year!’ and ‘He’s not even a top-5 Laker!’ are like the easiest, dumbest,…

Ah, cool, now post a photo of Robert Horry smiling with the larger number of championship trophies he’s won.

Seriously, you guys need to stop this. Like this is epic level trolling.