The thing is, bad tweets aside, if you look at 538's main page for this election, it’s broken down in about 19 different ways. Some show Clinton clearly winning, some show Trump upsetting her and some show it as a dead heat.

I was just thinking the same thing. If the media actually covered Trump and Clinton factually, we wouldn’t have a dead heat. The media loves the sensationalism, and goes out of its way to create it.

the reason Silver is getting increasingly pissy about this has a lot to do with his chief rival, Sam Wang, who has pointed out that, statistically, this race is the single most stable race in recorded history, hovering nationally around Hillary +4% outside of the two-week period after both conventions.

Nate has clearly gotten sensitive about his model. I think the questions are fair, when you consider how Silver did in the primaries (including the fact that he whiffed on a couple of Democratic primaries in addition to the Trump thing), and the fact that he moved his operations to ESPN, which would cause a cynic to…

So just to be clear, faking a tag = bad cause someone can get injured. Throwing at someones head = grittiness and toughness.

Arnold Palmer died in Pittsburgh, Pa. today, according to Golfweek. He was +15.

Ah shit, I think I forgot to register to volt.

Literally shut the fuck up about this bullshit.

Vin Scully called a game that Connie Mack managed.

When the media pushes the same tired narrative over and over, it becomes believable. Donald Trump and his surrogates lie on TV every day, and it wasn’t until recently that there has been any pushback on behalf of the “journalists.”

It’s not bad enough that Lions fans have to be subjected to such a terrible product on the field.

I guess my point/question really is that since gawker writers are unionized and had an existing contract with gawker, that same contract and terms would carry over in the acquisition correct? Univision could not modify that contract, so if they have no written assurances of indemnity, that would have to have carried…

Definitely feel free to correct me if I'm wrong cuz I don't really know about this stuff but from what I gathered part of the reason they wouldn't put it in writing it because that would have to be part of contract negotiations which have to go through the union

This is fucking flagrant disrespect by the NCAA toward our National Anthem. The NCAA hasn’t just canceled these events in North Carolina, they’ve canceled the playing of the National Anthem at these events in North Carolina as well. I’m not a member of the military but that is insanely hurtful to the many members of…

All human-dog interactions were strictly off the record.

What the hell are you talking about? Gawker frequently posts transcripts of chats and internal interviews. They use to have a subblog literally dedicated to the sausage-making of running the company, this is par for the course.

So serious question: What did the labrador do the whole time while the interview was going on? Did you pet it? Did it allow you to pet it? Did it roll over to ask you to rub its belly? Did you bring treats as a good houseguest? Did it lick you?

This interview made that abundantly clear. It’s not clear whether Trotter fully understood that prior to the interview. It is clear that many of his colleagues, who submitted the questions he was asking in this interview, did not understand it. Many of Trotter’s follow-up questions to those submitted by his colleagues…

If you throw in the Lions then Eastern Michigan isn’t even the best team at losing in eastern Michigan.

These are two good baseball men. I like the way they baseball.