This is a great point! The reaction to the initial wave of CTE outrage was basically “They’re pros! They make great money! They knew what they signed up for!” My reaction to that shit was “Oh, only professional football players get CTE?” mixed with “How could anybody know what they signed up for when the league was…

Showing up late and scrolling down allowed me to escape the fate of publicly making the inferior Chris Thompson by Chris Thompson joke!

I can’t imagine it hasn’t crossed his mind that Jordan Reed will almost certainly retire this season, likely mid-season.

“But this is hardly “controversial” seeing as G/O Media has beef with Barstool.”

That’s a thing YOU typed. But I’m in the tank for Barstool. Good times. 

Well, your comments are CLEARLY important to them.

You’re pedantic AND you can’t read.

Point taken. Gawker is now G/O Media. Thanks for reminding me. I’ll be sure to put a post-it on my monitor so I don’t fuck that up any more. Be sure to round up everyone else who makes this mistake, mmmmkaaayyyyy?

My whole point was that if Barstool is NOT controversial to someone,…

And the heat. Not a climate science denier, but not mad about rising temps either!

I think that is an overstatement. Jersey burning is a smartphone/social media-driven thing. And a product of the fact that significant numbers of middle-income folks have been priced out of attendance, so they don’t get to go to the stadium and scream and boo at their free agent departure folks. I agree with you that…

That nailed it. The whole thing misses the obvious linguistic advantage of “we” being the shortest way of communicating the same shit that everyone is fine with fans talking about anyway... If somebody already knows which team you’re talking about, and they know it’s your favorite team, “we” is much more reasonable tha…

This is a confusing take. Imagine reorganizing it this way:

“Barstool is fucking horrible and they need to be brought down for being misogynistic, racist, and homophobic douche canoes from Boston/New Jersey who are just all around horrible people.” But one thing they’re not is controversial. And anyone who says so is…

Don’t yuck the yum, brah!

“Try harder,” says the guy typing about a guy who is at the pinnacle of his profession. I can’t help but feel like you’d make a really great retread failed football coach who preaches about not caring what the opponents are going to do because “as long as we go out there and out-execute ‘em, we can’t lose!!!!”

You don’t go out of your way for a #3 pitcher if you’re fine sucking and/or have better options. So which one is it? Do they have better options? Oh.

The rest of that shit is excuses matched up as reasons.

Why shade LeBron here? We’ve literally seen him recount random possessions in games during postgame pressers, including where everyone was on the floor, who passed to whom, how the play went, how the defense reacted. That’s not LeBron claiming to remember every play in the history of basketball. Maddux didn’t keep a…

You sorta agree with a really, really stupid point. Like... painfully stupid. If anything, a cerebral assassin HOFer should need a personal catcher less than a really good pitcher who should need one less than a marginal MLBer, since that person is a HOFer... But either way, not understanding why something is true…

The first question is actually more easily answered by pointing out that it only matters if you can guarantee that Javy Lopez or Jorge Posada is going to hit a three run homer every time you start. Of course, the question wouldn’t be worth asking if you could guarantee a catcher hitting a three ball every fifth game...

Just curious: How successful do you think the average person you pass on the street would be at throwing a baseball through their own front window, with velocity, from more than about 35 feet away?

Was it Abram that was giggling in the first episode while Gruden was like “No, really... Knock that shit off! That was your teammate...”? I seem to remember he had some “Trying too hard” on him out of the gate...

Just throwing this out there:

Another reason to drop the whole “Liverpool = The Pool Boys” thing sooner rather than later is that a casual reader might see “The Dardanians” and think “sure, sure... y’all are making that shit up too...” After all, it’s not just about not ever being able to make fetch a thing... It’s…

I don’t like to blame everything on the Internet, but...

There’s this thing people sometimes do when they’re sitting in a room with one another where they operate with the assumption that people ARE NOT bad actors. For example, in this case, if you and me and “Deadspin” were sitting in a room, you might hear…