I completely disagree, the last thing baseball needs is a scandal involving performance enhancing hugs.

“You sayin’ there’s a room available?”  - J. Tomsula

Cam Newton is playing injured and probably has been playing injured for the last 3 or so years. He continued to play, because the Panther’s only other option at that point was...*check notes*...A literal robot who was programmed to throw turnovers and make racial slurs. He didn’t play because he was selfish, he played…

the 90-yarder is the best because Williams had the safety lined up per usual 20 yards back and Odell still ran by him like the safety was Gregg and Odell was a head coaching job

This read like a article in an anthropological journal about some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. 

“That’s like re-segregating the country, why would we want that? Besides of course the reasons Tucker Carlson and I lay out every night.”

Brown called Mayock a “cracker” and unleashed a barrage of “cuss words” during the altercation

After years and years of the wonderful, blessed “Get a brain, morans” meme, we actually have a Brian Moran?!??

The ITU cited a rule that penalizes athletes who cook up a “contrived tie situation,”

Why, just the other day I screamed “Hey 6 monthsy!” at a lesbian while I was waiting in line at the post office...

good.

Gaytekeeping?

Also, it’s pretty idiotic to defend the piece and blame the readers for not getting it without noting the place of publication. Peck writes this for The Advocate, it might generate an interesting intra-gay debate. He writes it for the white neoliberal crowd who still reads The New Republic and it gets traction because…

All of this.

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

who took 33 years to come out because he fretted how it might affect his career

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

If you listen closely, you can hear “The Sound Of Silence” playing.