I’m actually ashamed to have loved reading Simmons’s stuff so many years ago. It’s just terrible. He’s not a particularly good writer, and he’s not that smart. In my early twenties, I was just such a mark for any/all pop culture references. Maybe that part hasn’t changed tooo much, but just enough to never want to…

I’ve been refreshing Deadspin for the last half hour waiting for you guys to post about this. Basically, there’s three ways to take this:

I can tell you with extreme confidence that he was not joking.

I still miss Grantland. It was a good thing.



One day a font will be invented with smoke coming from it, to indicate the hotness of the takeness.

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No, like I seriously have no idea which one is the star.

I literally have no idea who the “star” is in this gif.

Josh and Luke are the Aldi private label versions of Peyton and Eli.

This whole ‘controversy’ is nonsense, and I just knew LeBatard was going to bring it today on his radio show, as he 1) routinely takes the pro-player/anti-management/anti-fan stance and 2) doesn’t mind traversing the racial minefield that is accusing a black superstar athlete of being lazy. His take in a nutshell: …

I kind of get why baseball will never consider cutting a weeks worth of games from its schedule; baseball gets a lot of equity out of it’s history and being able to compare records apples-to-apples (which is why the steroid thing hit them the hardest). But the NBA could absolutely drop 6-8 games from it’s regular…

I hate to pull the whole “NHL players are so much tougher” schtick...aw who am I kidding, I love to pull it.

The resemblance is uncanny...

I love the twisted logic on these people. If you’re embarrassed that someone is showing people how you’re acting in public, maybe you should be embarrassed about how you’re acting in public.

You raise your child in any era the same way: by explaining to them the virtue of basic humanity, focusing on becoming learned, productive members of society as a whole, and by teaching them the deep complexities of the world and the country they live in.

How do I raise a son in the age of Trump?

I’m currently on the 28th floor of an office building downtown , just doing my regular job. All I can hear are drums, symbols clash, and bad singing reverberating from these buildings and it’s only going to get worse.

Being an Austinite, I really like that MetroRail expands their hours so the trains run before 4pm on a Saturday. Yes, you heard right..can’t catch a train into the city on weekend before 4pm. We need help. Soon.

“Dude, Who’s Monetizing My Fans’ Content?” or as I like to call it, An Intimate Evening With Darren Rovell and His Big Throbbing Cock

If i hear “disrupt” one more fucking time I’m throatpunching everyone. You’re not that important you self-absorbed tech bro fucks.

Excuse me, I have a two-part question and a comment...

The @fuckjerry panel is just every other panel curated into one convenient panel.