says she was contracted to paint a mural of Brown in his home after he’d agreed to purchase another painting by her at a charity auction.

I realize Kelsey’s new, and Megan’s at Jezebel, but you should have had someone show you Deadspin house style for lists. Because this really should have been ranked 1-14, with #13 “Getting hit by a copy of Infinite Jest”.

You ever drink a mojito with a paper cut on your lower lip ? I didn’t think so STFU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A wiser man than I summed him up best- Gladwell writes books for people who don’t read books.

Simmons: Right.

In Gladwell’s defense, the Penn State coaching staff and administration probably spent more than 10,000 hours raping children and ignoring it, so he’d have to reject the entire premise of one of his own books if he didn’t recognize their expertise in the field.

Brett Gardner has had the same season for like a decade. 

Fortunately for Yankees fans, the Cowboys are off to a good start and the Lakers are looking stacked. You’ll have plenty to root for after October.

And for that to happen it means a bunch of replacement/lesser players have been playing out of their minds for them which kinda makes it hard to proclaim the team is “cursed”.

“Oh no, everyone we plug in is playing well, we’re so cursed” 

In no way is a player who had a career 92 OPS+ a star.

Yeah, but they’re only tied for the best record in baseball, whereas a non-cursed team would have sole possession of the best record.

I used to joke in the late 90s and early 00s they had a machine they could plug mediocre players into and an hour later they’d pop out and play like all stars.

You guys are manufacturing this “Yankees are cursed” narrative so that if they win the World Series you can pull the “nobody believed that the team with the best record in baseball could do it!” angle, right

Counterpoint: DJ LeMahieu is a 30 year old player who until this year had done nothing much of consequence in the major leagues. 92 OPS+.

I feel real bad for them. It’s a similar feeling to that time in 2018 when Coke narrowly missed on revenue, which declined 6% to $7.06 billion, while analysts were expecting $7.07 billion. Just real intense stabs of sympathy is what I’m feeling.

I think I can speak for Baseball fans everywhere when I laugh and point at the Yankees’ misfortunes. Here’s to them getting their butts kicked in the ALDS by the Twins or A’s.

a 50% chance of scoring 6 points is literally better statistically than a 95% chance of scoring 3 points.

Kyle Crick, the hero we didn’t know we needed.

If you’re going to make a joke about this it has to be funnier. I don’t make the rules

The problem is that whenever there’s a civil suit (it is to award damages in the form of money) where a woman like Taylor suing a very rich man, the insinuation is that she lied to do so. It doesn’t matter if the outcome is that money is handed over - it’s that her story doesn’t even matter, that she is just another…