Barry, I honestly enjoy your stuff the most of any writer at Deadspin but I feel relatively confident you haven’t watched these games, and wrote this based on looking at a few highlights and the stat line.

Yeah, but I guess I’m at least a little tempted to think that at least some of that is just because something screwy was going on this year in terms of goals for. Tampa wasn’t one of the 150 best teams in the post-lockout era in terms of goals against but were the #1 team in the post-lockout era in goals for. That’s…

I really don’t think it’s that big of a mystery. Tampa’s record this year was at least partially inflated by things that aren’t generally sustainable(record in one goal/OT/SO games) and were the sort of team uniquely vulnerable to this(dependent on very effective special teams/not a ton of depth).

I remember the up-and-coming (and scary) New York Islanders stumbling and falling in the ‘78 and ‘79 playoffs, even with their roster littered with Hall of Famers like Bryan Trottier, Clarke Gillies, Denis Potvin and young goal-scoring phenom Mike Bossy. As a young Canadiens fan, I let out a sigh of relief when they…

Basketball’s regular season is pointless because everyone already knows who the good teams are gonna be when it counts.

Hockey is just the best goddamn sport.

Why are they still trying to put Cale into everything?

Golf is the republican party of sports. You got rich assholes playing and wannabe rich assholes cheering them on.

Fighting is part of the game.

As a fan of another abysmal team, I refuse to feel sorry for these Orioles fans.  You knew goddamn well what you were going to go watch when you bought the ticket.  Is there a single person in that stadium that went to the game with honest high expectations?  Anyone who has seen their starting lineup and has even the…

Can we get the nickname LASER RAMÓN going?

Avenatti’s biggest mistake, in terms of enriching himself through a grift, was trying to align with liberals rather than conservatives.

Let’s hear more about how a single elimination tournament at one of the highest levels of basketball is the same as raising 7 year olds tho

I’m not sure when we arrived to this era of “who can apologize the fastest” but this hyper vigilant analysis of the Tom Izzo moment is so confusing and completely unnecessary. It was a heated explosive moment. I’m sure Izzo knows he lost control, but saying that he lost control to the press undermines the relationship…

Going to have to take Izzo’s side on this one. You don’t like that he yelled and point out that this is not office-appropriate behavor? Izzo doesn’t work in an office. His job is to get the best out of his players. This player took it and responded exactly how Izzo hoped he would. Nothing to see here.

Meh. I know being a snobby A-hole about every meal ever eaten at a restaurant makes you look legit. But honestly, as far as buffet food goes, I don’t think Pizza Ranch is all that bad.

Look at the freaking hose on this guy (still) and the third baseman’s reaction https://twitter.com/mariners/status/1107654108930965504?s=21

So, since Lori Loughlin is involved, is it fair to say that this scandal is everywhere you look?

The one on the left is harder to find out about. Here’s a pic of her accepting an award for Best Direction of a play from the LA Stage awards in 2009. Her IMBD lists no other credits aside from Fargo. Also, I’m really fucking the dog hard at work this afternoon.

Go Bears!