Wade didn’t commit any acts of “self-sacrificing loyalty.” He left money on the table in exchange for rings.

But then why would an employee of Gawker media understand ethical journalism beyond “Gotta get ‘dem clicks!”

On the scale of shady things, being a ballpark asshole ranks pretty low. But I’ll be sure to send in a tip next time I see somebody sneak into a better seat or dump their beer on the person in front of them when they leap up to scream at an umpire.

This guy is the worst, please stop talking about him.

It’s fitting that he’s lying in bed with all of those balls seeing how every night he rubs his dick on them until completion.

Sure but in the US, I bring bring my 7 year old to the bar and I'm an asshole alcoholic.

I just don’t get it. Especially not after we just saw a championship won by the team that won the lottery three times in four years and led by....the guy they drafted #1 overall.

This is a dumb thing that Deadspin has tried to make into a running gag, and it’s just not working because they’ve taken the exactly incorrect stance. It would be like trying to do a pro-Cardinals or pro-Cincinnati chili gag.

I don’t know. A lot of this reads like what got written in places like LA and Toronto about Moneyball after DePodesta and Ricciardi got fired. The strategy is a bad one because it failed and so on.

You are making the same error the article made, and the one that the commenter was highlighting. It’s fairly clear Schefter was taking that notion into account. Avoiding politics entirely is impossible, as any reasonable adult recognizes (and Schefter would seem to clearly recognize). Taking conscious stands and…

This is literally the worst thing I have ever read. Please stop writing things.

I find your (and Barry’s) idea of what is “political” ridiculous. Just because you can speak on a topic from a political viewpoint doesn’t make it that. Barry does this for several sports things and concludes that “everything is politics”. You can apply the same logic to a million other things, and find that…

Which is the ENTIRE point. Your politics and social views will influence what you do without you trying. There is a huge difference between that and actively trying to put your politics out there. Schefter is against the latter when it comes to people that report on sports. The former is unavoidable—one literally…

He’s in the job of making money on sports, not being a political commentator for MSNBC. Of course he’s right about sticking to sports, he wants to keep making lots of money for reporting sports and if he alienates half of his base because of his views on abortion or gun control then he loses a chunk of that money…

Wait, Deadspin writers purposely misconstruing a take to promote conversation? I think you might have it all wrong.

Actually that’s not what he’s saying. What he’s saying is that sports is separate from politics, and that’s why sports reporters should never disclose their political viewpoint. He’a saying sports figures should not discuss politics because sports is escapism. It’s fine if Schefter does not want to discuss his own…

Yeah, but he’s not saying sports are apolitical, he’s saying that it’s possible to cover them without taking a stance on the underlying politics. Which is basically true, a lot of people walk that line very well and have for a long time. I guess you could argue that not taking a stance is its own stance, but that’s…

Going off this, this piece missed a bit of what I think Schefter was saying. It’s okay—even desirable—to be political if you’re a sports opinion person. Bo Jones or Jemele Hill are being paid to share their opinion on sports, rather than do any reporting. As Barry rightfully points out, sports are necessarily…

This is a pedantic take, at best. OF COURSE politics is relatable to just about everything in some way. Even though the tweets you mention have some connection to larger political issues, I would never call them “political” tweets—not even close. I take Schefter’s view as being against actively engaging in political…

I’d like to read Schefter’s position as “Don’t be Curt Schilling.” Obviously you can’t keep sports and politics separate. Obviously everybody has their own bias that comes out even when it isn’t intentional.But by covering sports events, one shouldn’t disclose, nor feel the need to disclose, their political leanings…