Gross.

Did Deadspin get sold to MASN? What’s with all the Beltway fanbroing lately?

In the off-season, he’ll sign a free agent deal with Toronto, hire Brian McNamee as an advisor, and become the greatest pitcher in history.

wut

You are aware the other catcher in that video - the one calling the pitch - is notorious redass Brian McCann? The guy literally wrote half the unwritten rules in the game.

Evanston =/= Chicago.

Holy shit, this idea is awful.

“The Bears were stupid because other GMs would not have done what they did.”

IOW: “If they wanted him all along, why didn’t they make that transparent to the world so that other teams could spoil their plans? Does not compute.”

No, no, no. It is not “relevant” that the actor paid to play a role is an adherent of any particular religion.

The mistake is in believing you need to persuade them (Coulter or Spencer). You need to persuade other people that your ideas are superior to Coulter or Spencer. Shouldn’t be that hard. So why so afraid?

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

These fuckers realize they just relocated a team to Vegas, right?

Y’all are missing the Foerest for the trees.

This, 100%.

Yes and no. The contingency agreement was entered into before they had a separate fund to pay attorneys. By negotiating that fund, the attorneys inherently were re-assigning some of their clients’ potential recovery to themselves. Doing that and keeping the original contingency agreements in place could be regarded…

That’s actually a fairly normal range of hourly fee for many kinds of cases, and that doesn’t account for risk. A lot of very good lawyers would bill in the mid $800's for a client who was paying them for every hour they work regardless of the outcome of the case. When you structure it as a contingency, the lawyer…

What an insightful and subtle analogy.

They’re winners. They get to still follow the team on TV, avoid getting beaten up or shivved at the stadium, and further avoid a huge tax bill.

In today’s media world, is the threat of your NFL team leaving for another city really a threat? As it is, I want 50,000 other dipshits to go to my team’s home games, so that this dipshit can watch it in High Def from the comfort of my couch. If they took off and left me completely outside of a blackout zone so much…