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The simplest idea I can think of is that from the day you’re eliminated from playoff contention onward, you refund all season ticket holders for the remainder of the season. You could start off with a cushion for teams that are just bad (say, elimination date + 30 games) and escalate it for successive seasons. If you…

Please tell me the Angels will be good enough this year not to waste a *second* generational talent.

Does Jim Mora think he’s going to find a player between 21 and 37 years old who...isn’t a millennial?

Amen, amen, amen. Stakes and world-building. EQ was magical because it was this sprawling, diverse world with places you belonged and places you *really* didn’t. If you started as an elf on Faydwer, it might take you 10 or 15 levels to get across the Ocean of Tears. You might wander up from Freeport and get ganked by…

Yeah, I don’t think most Deadspin readers need a primer on the effects of scuffing a ball. We know why it matters mechanically — I’m far more interested in why it’s a big deal within the culture of the game, as opposed to baseball, where it’s a fairly routine offense.

Going to work when it’s dark makes me feel like a high-powered overachiever. Coming home at night makes me acutely aware that seasonal depression is real.

Aren’t all holes just an empty space?

It wasn’t pretty, although there were a number of reasons for that. The style of play was brutal, labor strife was coming to a head, the ill-advised high school craze was in full swing.

humans might account for 80-something percent of accidents in normal cars.

But why would Windhorst—normally a fair and rigorous reporter—include an anecdote like this without exploring the possibility that it didn’t really happen?

Yes, I would have guessed the same. I would absolutely pay a professional 3 percent to handle that side of things. Even if the money was a wash, the headache seems worth 3 percent.

It seems like the only question that matters here is: Could an agent have gotten Richard Sherman a contract that was 1.51 percent to 3.01 percent better? If the answer is yes, he messed up. If it’s no, he’s fine.

Not to mention the relative ease of ruining a person whom you personally know to be a cocaine dealer. Like, Skipper is a few friendly conversations with the cops and a wire away from putting that dude in prison, and they probably ignore his own possession for the trouble. So yeah, this seems a lot worse than “a little…

“Both swords are for monsters.”

He had to really trust the person, or he had to really want to do cocaine, or he had to really want to do cocaine and have sex with the person, or he had to really want to do cocaine and have sex with the person while the person filmed it on their phone. I don’t think any of these are implausible scenarios.

Which gave rise to an excellent Joe Thomas tweet:

First, the top seeded team already enjoys the enormous advantage of playing the worst team, and almost always wins.

So he said it was someone “from whom he bought cocaine,” not necessarily his pro go-to dealer. It could’ve been an ill-advised impulse buy from a prostitute at a party or a friend’s prostitute or a casual acquaintance prostitute. Lots of possibilities for how John Skipper got entangled with a cocaine-adjacent…

I was gonna say, maybe you should’ve tried letting it interfere with your work.