Human in a modern society #1: Shall we go to the coliseum and lustily cheer on the gladiators in the Octodome as they murder one another in hand to hand combat?

Hating Joel Embiid seems like a “you” problem, my friend.

Will be rooting for him and hope he’s as good a guy as he appears to be, lately the superstar UFC fighter and complete asshole Venn diagram has just been a circle.

So where did all these viewers come from? Are they the people who stopped watching wrestling in 2001 when WCW, whose flagship show also aired on TNT, folded up and sold its assets to WWE? Are they the more recently lapsed fans that bailed on WWE programming over the last five years, when the promotion’s audience fell…

Jim Ross phoning it in from anywhere in the galaxy >>>>>>>>>> some combination of Cole/Phillips, Graves, Saxton, and Renee talking about whatever crap storyline the WWE is pushing into their earphones rather than the match in front of their faces.

The loud, autoplaying advertisement really enhanced the experience of enjoying this content.

Just Pin Them Back in Their Own Territory, Baby

From now on, when a writer segues instantly from Hawkeye Pierce lamenting the death toll mode to FOOTBAW MODE it should be called a Magary.

Long time Fangraphs subscriber here. Probably a little naive to dive into the Deadspin comments to say a nice thing but Sawchik is a good writer and a non-asshole. His books are very good, too.

Uh, have you BEEN to Kosovo?

Phillie fans are brutal! - Charlie Kelly

They’ve got maybe three-quarters of a first half of a season before they start losing four fifths of their games. Big Poppa Pump said it best.

Weird that the tall, handsome, athletic jock from Virginia who made hundreds of millions of dollars and married a supermodel turned out to be a jerk.

I’m just saying “The dude absolutely shrinks when he has to play somebody physically” isn’t entirely true - as evidence, in a playoff sweep against a three seed with a physical center he showed up - he averaged 33.8/11.8/1.3/1.8/2.8 shooting 57.6% and was plus 13.3/48 minutes. Nurkic averaged 14.3/9.0 that season in…

He destroyed Nurkic in the 2018 playoffs and that dude is one of the three or four most physical players in the league.

I love that this “old man yells at cloud” piece is right above whatever Drew is old man yelling at cloud about in this week’s funbag... let’s see... is it aioli again? No, it’s athletes saying “Let’s go.” Riveting stuff.

Just imagine if Deadspin stuck to sports, we’d have more of this.

I think Rollins and McIntyre are the epitome of the “WWE Style” - two big guys flying around the ring. This match is as good as one can expect to see on a random Monday Night RAW (couldn’t find the full clip but this will do).

I can understand not loving his promo work, but he can really go - his matches with Rollins in early 2019 were fantastic.

I won’t argue against anyone who wants to say there are better options than Strowman and McIntyre because there are so many great, underutilized wrestlers on the roster, but Strowman (promos/intangibles) and McIntyre (wrestling/everything) are far superior to the 2010 version of Sheamus.