Fucking brilliant, judging from these reactions I would say the Deadspin ballot project was pretty successful

I don't see how federal law matters when it comes to hall of fame voting. The question is do you deny deserving players based on steroid use even though they broke no established rules of the game?

We don't get the similarity because the situations aren't as similar or clear as you seem to think. On the one hand plagiarism is a clearly defined violation of academic integrity and barred universally throughout academics. On the other hand steroids were not clearly illegal in baseball until the mid 2000s. There was…

He was not speaking ebonics, he was speaking empty football platitudes while exhausted from playing the biggest game of his life and doing it with an Alabama accent. I'm not sure what was so incomprehensible about anything he said, it was quite clear to me.
And what exactly is embarrassing about ebonics? Are you scared…

The headline is an endorsement of the idea that Charlie Strong isn't a "hip hop coach." It's obviously racialized bullshit which is why it got called out. And no I don't think they make fun of Boston because it's liberal, they make fun of Boston and Texas because it's easy click bait.

It's not really refuting a dumb statement by Lou Holtz as much as sloppily referencing the statement. And sure Kalef used an inflammatory headline but it's not quite the same as thing, the Dallas Morning News headline reads as an endorsement. And given that Gawker has published a headline reading "Fuck Boston" I'm…

It's a dumb headline because it's unnecessarily racialized and condescending. This is the type of thing that would never be written in reference to a white coach

It's a dumb headline because it's unnecessarily racialized and condescending. This is the type of thing that would never be written in reference to a white coach

It's a dumb headline because it never would have been written in reference to a white coach. Not a "hip hop coach" is the type of reassurance that only needs to be discussed while talking about black people. An unnecessarily racialized and condescending headline is pretty dumb in my book

Lol at the guy with no reading comprehension calling me a retard.

Whose this "we"? Not all black people are religious, there are plenty of us out here who don't give a fuck about religion so please speak for yourself

The problem with your stance is that it ignores the fact that players are currently sacrificing their health for a few extra games. Taking painkillers to play through injuries is not good for the long term health of players. Taking steroids is also damaging to health long term, players currently do both because their…

I'm saying we should stop pretending that athletes don't use performance enhancers all of the time, we should also quit the dumb moral panic that surrounds steroid use. Personally I don't care if athletes use steroids or not, I think it's risky and the long term health consequences make it a bad idea for most players.…

I'm not arguing degrees of performance enhancement. I'm just saying it's crazy to act like painkillers that allow players to play through severe pain are not unnatural performance enhancers. Obviously steroids and pain pills do different things but I don't really see how that matters.

Whether they're legal or not is beside the point. Painkillers still enhance performance unnaturally by allowing players to play through injuries that would otherwise put them out of action. Players take steroids and painkillers for the same reasons, mainly to maximize their abilities and their paychecks. I think the…

Steroids don't give you strength out of nowhere, they can help you put on muscle mass when combined with a strict nutrition and workout regime. The point is that it's all medical technology that improves human performance but people only get angry over some of them

I don't want to make any of them illegal, I'm actually pretty indifferent to performance enhancers. I'm just saying that you can't pretend that powerful painkillers that allow you to play when you otherwise wouldn't be able to aren't performance enhancers, because they are.

Would he have been able to play without the Torodol? If not then yes the painkiller enhanced his performance. I thought that was kind of the point, we tolerate lots of performance enhancers but scary scary steroids fit into a different category somehow.

You can be a realistic as you want with a super hero movie but it doesn't change the fact that its a super hero movie. To me the "realism" comes from taking the movies and the characters seriously. Honestly that's the thing I don't understand, Nolan and Snyder get big budgets to make super hero movies and they take…

I get what you're saying, I just don't agree. I think it's much more of an editing issue since the events in Gotham aren't necessarily happening at the same time as the prison events. I don't remember anything even implying that Bruce broke out of the prison a day before the bomb went off. Either way I don't really…