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I say this as a life long Mets fan, whose day to day mood is unfortunately partially dictated by the team: This is not at all surprising. This sort of dysfunction has been steady through several GMs, managers, and rosters. The mood of the team for years has been a place where good players go for their careers to die.

Based on their newsletter, they’re eventually going to do game boxes for X-Wing and TIE Fighter (not the later “vs”, but each of the original separate games).

The thing I enjoy about Stewart in this entire situation is that I have no doubt he’s genuine. His jokes about McConnell looking like a turtle may seem like going for the easy joke, but you can tell he has seething contempt for him. The only other time I saw him visibly despise someone in this way was when he roasted

The last time there was a Deadspin item on the shift, I typed the phrase “bunt double”.

You could draw some similarities to football. Buddy Ryan develops the 46 defense. Offenses move to more short passing, less play action. And so on. And it only took 5-10 years! At the rate baseball strategy evolves, I anticipate teams effectively game planning against the shift in...30 years or so.

I feel pretty confident that, over a long enough timeline, baseball players would get better at using all fields and render the shift a losing proposition. On the other hand, it seems increasingly likely that the inevitable collapse of human civilization will thwart any evolutions of that kind. Ah well.

It's in the Special Edition

Admittedly it’s been a while since I saw A New Hope but I guess I missed the bit where Alec Guinness is partying with babes in bikinis and listening to fancy music? 

Also, this might explain the deletion of the tweets:

This is the most infuriating thing. The man isn’t stupid, he’s had his hands in creating some impressive stuff. But then he turns around and does the dumbest crap like this.

Please just remember - these are essentially extremely fine sandpaper equivalents, their entire ‘erasing’ feature is simply the result of wearing down the surface being cleaned. So it may be unwise to use these heavily on items such as keyboards where the keycaps have the letters ‘imprinted’ on them via decal or

debasing themselves in the foolish hope that a critical mass of crap will pass as worthwhile content

Indeed. Every year in early July, the tide gets juuuuust low enough in Flushing Bay and true fans can sense it’s coming. They gather, cloaked in solemn silence when the moon is gibbous, to look out past LaGuardia’s lights. There, they can spy the wreckage of the ‘93 Mets. I’ve been told if you see it at the right

Were you not aware that Brad Paisley’s a really good guitar player?

Watching Suicide Squad reminded me how much damn charisma Will Smith has. He almost saved that train wreck just by being in it. This show gave us that first glimpse of what a natural he is. Also, Carlton. 

There’s a thing called the car radio test. Once you’re done mixing a song you listen to it on the cheapest, shittiest speakers imaginable because that’s how most people will hear it. If it still sounds good, you’re gold.

Was just speaking to my friends about this supposed outrage, and man, how far have we fallen to take offense in having a black character going back in time to prevent slavery. It's not only outrageous, it's sad . . .

It feels like another pile of fake outrage that feeds upon itself for energy. An instance where completely missing the point begets anger.

The Mets aren’t bad the same way the Jets are bad. They play the long game.