So are we to assume he has a half finished mural in his house?

I get this point, but I’m just not sure it’s has to be true. I think the broadcasters have a role to play. They can still show the slow mo replay, but I think if they just said “close call, looks like the ref missed that one” people can live with that. Now, every missed call people debate about if we need to change…

The careers of the players and coaches involved is entirely the result of our enjoyment and subsequent decision to watch, so I’m not sure that opinion is invalid. Obviously I support the game being called accurately, because the entertainment goes up when you feel both teams have a fair chance to win, but when replay…

There should be no replay in any sport ever. We watch sports strictly for our own amusement, and it is absolutely not life or death, therefore what is “fair” is completely irrelevant (sports will always have an element of luck and be inherently unfair regardless of how much replay there is anyway). The only criteria…

As always my take remains, its a sport, played for entertainment, and the moral fabric of society is not at risk if they dont “get it right”.

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.

McMahon is an abomination, but its hard to justify a huge pricey stadium for the CFT (Canadian Football Tournament)

As I Calgary Flames fan can I make a legitimate claim to be a fan of the most irrelevant franchise of the big 4 sports (acknowledging the NHL sits much closer to MLS than it does to MLB or NBA in popularity)? Who else is even a contender for this title? The Florida Panthers, Arizona Coyotes, and like the Memphis…

This is entirely beside the point but I don’t think anyone dug for this. Leitch posted his article yesterday and linked back to a questionable old Deadspin article as a way of pointing out how he has grown since then. When I clicked on it, the top comment was Barry’s now widely circulated “fat” joke, I think because…

The Eliminator from American Gladiators is an egregious miss here

It’s amazing how many people cant grasp this concept of Rotten Tomatoes. It also perfectly explains how 95% of critics would say the Last Jedi is at the very least a decent flick, while 50% of Star Wars fan boys think it is the worlds most egregious piece of film making

I’ve had tickets to my crappy team (Calgary Flames) for an eternity and have been to probably 300 games. I’ve stayed till the end 299 times. This is the one time I left early

I just assumed this is what everyone did. You would have a tough time convincing me there is anyone on earth who read every elf song

I was once at an event where we literally waited an hour and a half in line to get a drink. When i finally got there I asked ‘whats the most you can serve me’. To which she replied ‘two triples’. So I went on my way with two triple whisky’s in hand. Fine. The bad part was now my muddled brain decided that every time I…

I was in Vietnam a couple years ago. My girlfriend and I had just arrived in Hanoi on our first day in the country. Cruising Instagram in the hotel room as we get ready for the day we notice from Bourdain’s feed that he’s staying at our hotel.

The whole Greek mythology story around the afterlife. Getting buried with a coin under your tongue so you can pay the boat driver to take you to the underworld where you are evaluated and hopefully get to Elysium is a real mind fuck in Grade 3

I’m a fan of PFT/PMT, but the funniest thing about these letters is how clear it makes it that a ton of these Stoolies are oblivious to the satire that is PFT. It kills me that there are people who listen to that pocast every day, completely miss the obvious sarcasm, but still think its great.

This is obviously the right answer, but I guess that makes Vladdy’s greatest skill being able to stand perfectly still without so much as twitching a muscle in his face

I feel like this doesn’t explain why there was a different number of people in the background which is the only mystery I care about

Hockey is an even more extreme example than MLB. On a local level NHL terms draw at a pretty comparable level to the NBA I believe, but at the National level there is no comparison.