I blame David Stern and his Marketing Plan, which committed the league to featuring individual players instead of teams which, ultimately, has had a predictable effect on the product as a whole. LA vs Philly? Nope. It’s Kobe vs AI. Bulls vs Anybody? No, it’s MJ vs —- well, whoever the “star” was on the other team.…

What? Scott didn’t think that Mudiay “was a guy who made great decisions.”?

Me, too! But, I think it needs an apostrophe.

Dude in the black overcoat is (current) NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers. I suspect he is wearing the glove to protect his very valuable Throwing Hand from who knows what —- possibly, he’s wary of shaking hands with the Deadspin staff (not unreasonable). Either that, or he moonlights as a…

Here’s one: Write an article such as this.

The fuck is wrong with Tom Verducci??? Cespedes has “the quickest hips since Elvis!”? “Stephen King called in and said ‘This game is weird!’”?

Tomorrow morning, Steve Doocy will be discussing the power outage. He will note that “some people are wondering if this could be the work of Obama/HRC’s campaign Dirty Tricksters/BLM”.

That anger is totally misdirected. If Hardy wants to get mad at anybody, it shouldn’t be the special teams coach. He should be mad at whoever it was in the organization that decided, “Y’know, there’s really no reason why we should re-sign Dwayne Harris. We can replace him with Cole Beasley!”

Haha, yeah! Those things are gawd-awful.

I’m reticent to even bring this up, but —— I think there’s a team in Colorado that might be looking for a new QB pretty soon.

Yeah, Kaep’s been terrible, but it’s not all on him. As someone already pointed out below, they can no longer run the play-action they used to thrive on because that O-line is straight Booty. Also, with 9 of the 11 starters on last years D gone, SF is constantly in a position where they have to play from behind,…

4,976 of them are from the NCAA Division 1 Compliance Office.

Utley should have been called out (as well as the batter) because of Interference, according to the rules. The umpire who did not make that call should be reprimanded (at least), for incompetence.

When they start making fedoras featuring the Mets logo, those things will be all over Brooklyn.

Joe Torre disagrees with you.

Tell that to Joe Torre.

No. Make your argument with Joe Torre.

This is just MLB covering their ass. Utley appeals, he’s still eligible to play until it’s resolved. Unlike Tejada. Mets know better than to drill him now, that gets their pitcher tossed on the spot. Unlike Utley. That fucking chump needs to retire after this season, otherwise, he catches one straight in his…

Precisely. Also, this is not the first time Utley had pulled this crap. Not buying his Innocent Act, either.