The In Memoriam reel only includes Academy members. So the real issue is not that these two were posthumously snubbed but that they were apparently never invited to join the Academy in life.

The Wire also because it is an excellent examination of the decline of industrial America at the turn of the century, specifically in mid-sized cities. I always say it's the most important work of art that has been created in the new century so far.

So we're entering into a flame war with jihadis?

Oh man, I know what you mean. I felt like I was kissed with senior citizen syndrome when that happened; I'm only in my mid 20's. LAME isn't it.

So what is it when your brain consistantly picks the wrong definition for a word used in context? Meainng, say, an article about a bat hanger. Fence and all. Normal people would think baseball. My brain inserts little fuzzy animals, and wonders why one would try to hang a mammal. If there is a word with 2 definitions,…

IT'S FINE IF IT'S ORGANIC OR AS LOCALLY SOURCED AS POSSIBLE

The worst thing about stuff like that, in my experience, is you know you can't tell them to just stop no matter how much you want to.

My wife died last year at age 35. (Bear with me, totally not trolling for sympathy.)

I imagine it goes something like this:

A filthy, illicit organization.

Heres a comparison. Alex Rodriguez took substances to enhance his game, and our viewing pleasure. Miguel Cabrera beat his wife and Drank and Drove. Who should be the villian?

I'll toss my hat in the ring to not really answer this one but provide a reason for why it appears that way. What Deadspin hates, above all, is sanctimonious high-horse sportswriting (and Darren Rovell, which amounts to the same thing). There is no greater example of said sanctimonious high-horse sportswriting than…

How about we start with you explaining why it IS a big deal. Baseball is just a fucking game. Steroids are (mostly) harmless scary, scary drugs. Dingers are fun to watch. Certainly better than watching everyone in baseball except Cabrera hit .260 with 18 HR.

Steroids saved baseball, be grateful for your juiced up overlords.

I think there's a difference between feeling attraction and acting upon it. I'm not sure about the numbers myself, but that might explain part of it.

I feel like this could be summed up by saying "If you're a guy, don't talk to a girl you don't know on twitter"

And yet, that's what Papa Steinbrenner put on the Yankee mission statement...World Series or bust. All I ever heard was "If we don't win it all, then the season was a failure". So, while George owned the team, six great seasons and a whole lot more failures.

Right — I'm obviously trolling a little bit here, but the amusing part of retiring numbers of good-not-great dudes like Pettitte, Williams, and Posada is furthering how absurd Yankees' fans treatment of A-Rod is. He has more Yankee WAR than the latter two and almost exactly as much as Pettitte, and he's about as…

Oh I see...

At least he can always look back fondly on his work in Rocky Horror Picture Show and Spin City.