If you think it is a "recent thing" that showboating like Puig is frowned upon in baseball, ask anyone who ever faced Bob Gibson what they're next at bat would have been like if they'd pulled the same antics on him.

I'm sure the Dallas PD scooped up Kennedy's grey matter quite nicely after the parade was over, too.

Like a Bahston cop would give a crap about a dahhhkie anyway! HIGHFIVEBRO!

Publicity stunts are fine if you want to be a celebrity lawyer, I suppose. Do you think this was an effective publicity stunt?

Real settlement offers aren't released to the public.

You're a pretty shitty person.

After the weekend's games, it's pretty clear that Deadspin/Marchman should leave the serious baseball analysis to the Jonah Keris of the world and stick to what Deadspin does best: Reposting TMZ's Athletes Gone Wild stories.

What you should really be writing about is the fact that Zach Greinke looks exactly like a McPoyle. Isn't that what we all come to Deadspin for?

Deleting my response is a nice move.

I can't discern his point at all. Is he mocking the cliche of gritty/scrappy/hustley players, or praising it? Like Lisa Simpson once asked the slacker dude at Hullabalooza, "Are you Being Ironic?" His answer: "I don't even know anymore."

It's an odd stance to take, unless you're paid by the page view and Cardinals-trolling has proven to be a viable business model to churn your counts.

If every team had a $200 million payroll, they'd be a lot more likely to be able to cover up awful contracts like Kemp, Ethier, League, Beckett, etc. And yet this author praises grit and scouting. Fascinating.

I guess $216 mil buys a lot of magical gritflakes in Marchman's world.

I'm saying that if you, and Deadspin, routinely (and rightly) make fun of sportswriters who get hung up on the Gritty Scrappy McHustle cliches, why the fuck would you jump on that idiotic bandwagon to brag on how gritty Ellis(x2), Punto, Schumaker, and Uribe are?

Hey, if you can ignore the $216 mil payroll and call the Dodgers a well run, well scouted, gritty team, then the sky's the limit in bad analysis.

Stop making sense. Deadspin be trollin'. Their authors are paid by page views, and they know Cardinals fans are easily irate. Clicks mean shiny nickels.

Oh, Matt Carpenter wasn't supposed to be this good according to this putz, so he doesn't count. Nor does Jon Jay, or Freese. And signing up Molina and Wainwright to long term, productive contracts is a bad thing for a team to do, somehow.

This is the most nonsensical and insufferable of the Cardinals trolling you've run out there this week, Deadspin. I do, however, appreciate your ignorance of the Cardinals roster not named Holliday, Molina, and Beltran, and the way in which it was assembled via the draft. I appreciate the Malcolm Gladwell level of…

And you still don't seem to understand that EVERYONE is a fan of their team by default (unless you're an awful person who grew up in Minneapolis but just loves the Yankees or Cowboys because "they're winners."). If you're a fan of your team because of where you're born, are you a fan "by default?" Believe it or not,…

You're a peach.