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You’ve forgotten about Miami’s own Vanilla Ice...

The half dozen or so British friends I have all do ;)

I disagree with your statement. Your entire gripe is with the grammatical choice made by the author, and the choice reflects a British, rather than American, way of talking about the sport. Because the sport was developed in Britain and then exported to America, it makes sense to use British English when discussing…

If a British person were talking about an American sport, wouldn’t you expect them to use the appropriate terminology?

Counterpoint: stop writing articles about Donald Trump.

I think you’re confusing the issue. Buying clothing with a (possible) rapist’s name on it is problematic no matter what color jersey. But that’s not what’s being discussed here.

There are plenty of obvious instances of teams relying on some combination of laziness and misogyny to market sports paraphernalia to women—and what Tampa is doing is, like, the archetypal example of this.

Sure, I get that. But some women like the way a pink jersey looks, and would want to wear it. I see it all the time, for example, with pink Red Sox jerseys. Many of the women I know who own such jerseys follow the team as or more avidly as many of the male fans. They just also happen to like the Red Sox logo on a pink…

I agree with all of this. And yet, that doesn’t mean you can’t market the game in a different way to some women than you could to men. Selling pink jerseys isn’t necessarily condescending in and of itself; it only becomes condescending if you do it like the Bucs.

What was even the point of all this?

You’re so brave.

Oh I completely understand what you’re saying. But what I was saying was, it sounds like she could just as easily have given the child up for adoption anonymously. Anonymously dropping the kid off at a police station in a basket or something would have preserved her image and given the kid a chance at life.

You think she worried that her image would be ruined because she gave her child up for adoption?

I have been extraordinarily lucky and have had the pleasure of witnessing, in person, both this game AND Clayton Kershaw’s 15-K no-hitter last year. Hard to say which was more impressive, but they’re both clearly HOFers.

Best pharm system in baseball.

I find it amusing that the MTV Video Music Awards, of all things, was the catalyst for this. This is a show hosted by a marginally relevant network, ostensibly devoted to a dying medium, that hands out “awards” based largely on what advertisers have focus-grouped to be the whims of people aged 12-23. I can understand…

+1 bratwurst, loaded with kraut

Fellow Madisonian. Preach.

The Wisconsin State Senate—the same legislative body imposing draconian cuts to the state’s University System out of ‘necessity’—had no problem coming up with a quarter of a billion dollars for this boondoggle. As a Wisconsinite, this kind of thing makes me livid. But even if you didn’t grow up here, you should still…