He’s incredibly stupid, incredibly sexist, incredibly racist, and astonishingly un-self-aware. It’s quite the superfecta of toxicity.

I’m not arguing that tenure isn’t important; I’m saying that I believe them when they said they controlled for tenure, and that the conclusions of the study remain once tenure is controlled for.

Based on nothing whatsoever other than your assumption that the union is lying in reporting findings that accord with similar findings across the remainder of the industry, other industries, and the entire employment market, I guess. And your belief that you can tell, from the necessarily anonymized aggregated…

I do, I agree with the stated conclusions, absent proof to the contrary— they match the findings broadly across journalism, to the extent that data is available, and across most industries, and just employment in America broadly, according to every study I’ve seen; so the conclusions seem both reasonable, and…

I’m curious where and how you’re determining the etymology of “cotton picking,” and why you’re so certain it’s not racist in origin. Because basically every etymology I can find says that although it initially originated in the 1700s, it gained widespread popularity in the jim crow south, and fairly specifically as an…

Possibly you’re misunderstanding that bit about the masthead. Just... possibly. There’s no : between “long felt to be true” and “The paper’s nine-editor...” It’s meant to be: this study confirms what staff has long felt... and some explanation and further confirmation for this may be found in the composition of the…

Also as Deadspin has not been reluctant to point out, Melo is fucked because regardless of whatever else is wrong with his game, it doesn’t fit the style almost any team plays anymore.

Yeah, but people were well aware of the potential of that team with Harden, although none of us could predict what he individually would become.

Let us just recall that this team *had* three super-elite players, and (while I’m a Warriors fan myself) Westbrook had absolutely nothing to do with the other two leaving. It’s not like he chose to be the sole effective focus of that team; the other two left him. It’s a little unfair and short-term memory to be all:…

as do i

Where do I sign?

He’s no more or less likely to be doping than any of the other top stars, all of whom have had sustained runs of excellence preceded by, interrupted by, and followed by bouts of inconsistency, poor play, and poor results.

It works better for the analogy this way, because Rapaport got rich and famous riding on the black community— he reached the shore he was aiming for.

Of this list: Bull Durham is one; Major League, Moneyball, Bang the Drum, and the Natural are 2 through 5 in whatever order you prefer. The remainder, rank as you wish, but Field of Dreams should be last, if you insist on ranking it at all.

The confusion regarding NPR that I care about, the confusion that I was discussing, is about is the journalistic part, so the conflation is purposeful

Unlike you, I am sure that the distinction between mainstream and alternative, or independent journalism still exists, despite the rapidly morphing forms these kinds of journalism take. For instance, I wouldn’t call something like, say, KPFA mainstream; it presents information that can’t be found in corporate outlets,…

The defense on both his goals was shit. But, he’s awesome.

Yeah, bunting maybe, if you’re able to bunt, which isn’t all that easy for some players, as we’ve seen, and if you’re able to control the direction of the bunt, which isn’t necessarily easy either, and bunt it hard enough to keep it away from the catcher and pitcher, which etc. But I was responding specifically to…

But they’ve taken away your threat as a power hitter in that case regardless, and you still have to be able to hit a grounder to third, and Gallo isn’t exactly Tony Gwynn. They’ve neutralized your strength, and made you do something unnatural and low-percentage— I think you’d have to be able to counter it pretty…

I mean, in some sort of conceptual or theoretical sense you’re right, but in terms of content, there’s very little variation between NPR’s or PBS’s basic news reporting and any other news reporting; the difference is primarily tone. And they accept private money for advertising, they merely label it sponsorship. The…