As a Pats fan, my initial reaction was to freak out that it wasn’t a PI call. However, upon seeing the reply immediately after, it’s pretty obvious that, even if you don’t take into account the initial contact by Gronk, he and Kam were equally physical. Begrudgingly, I have to agree it was a good no-call.

It only takes a couple years to learn how to do it, but a lifetime to master. My grandmother was amazing at it. Speaking of, how’s yours doing? Does she still have to check in with her parole officer?

You should go vote. Unless you forgot to register, in which case it’s probably too late

He was going for the ball.

Also, the play was obviously NOT dead. The refs didn’t blow a whistle until well after the kicker and Sherman had collided. The play isn’t dead until the whistle is blown. The audio is clear as day.

Yes, the refs fucked it up.

A rocket-bunny style widebody kit and 3M 1080 vinyl wrap was installed, without any of the hard edges and rivets that render VWVortex fanboys tumescent.

“I said show them a scrum! A SCRUM!”

What is this numbers and facts bullshit?

Well, not only that but the Mariners are, per 538, the statistically unluckiest team. We have lots of pain here. More than the Cubs, science says so.

This one time, there was a huge possum sitting on my backyard fence, and I side-armed a tennis ball right at it and knocked it off. Pretty sure I had that same goofy grin on my face. That was my World Series.

I enjoyed the throwaway reference to the last time 2 runs scored on a wild pitch, back in the 1911 World Series. Below is the box score description of it:

You know who didn’t fucking do this? White Sox fans, after 88 years. We had some dead family members too but didn’t caterwaul about it endlessly.

My fellow Seahawks fan, we never get treated well here in the Deadspin comments section. So don’t let the shit-eating responses and massive upvotes of the insults get to you.

I am a Seahawks fan. The first title we won, it was tons of fun, high fixing strangers all week, yelling “Go Hawks” at random intervals, the whole championship deal.

Coming that close when everything’s stacked against you: small payroll, not huge superstars, is far more excruciating than simply going out every year and being in last place by July. It sucks a lot more to get close and be heartbroken.

Totally forgot about that World Series. (Damm you drugs)

Fuck the Yankees.

Some perspective on how historic this is:

Not surprised he would do that. He’s always been a “me me” kind of guy.

the Indians never quite threatened, but they constantly threatened to threaten

...the Cleveland Indians, who will be running out a light fixture and Andrew Miller against the Cubs’ Jake Arrieta and Aroldis Chapman.