Sounds like Hank Aaron had a bellyful of being the "dignified Negro" and just wants to clear the air on where he draws the line on being "dignified"

I would argue that the NBA is to basketball what the WWE is to wrestling. Most of what I consider to be essential to the game of basketball, like defense, ball movement, and fundamentals is either against the rules or not emphasized. The women's game is a better game to watch. That is, unless all you want to see is…

Players have batted 355 or higher 303 times. The equivalent of hitting 40 HR in a season.

Yeah, I got shit for this at the time, too. The point wasn't to denigrate Aaron or his .355. The point was only that he never put up the kind of big single-season number—like Ted Williams's .406 or Willie May's 52 HRs—that gives a career a sort of inflection point.

No one should ever clap for Selig.

Right? I don't disagree with the article at all, and I groaned when Aaron was introduced last night at the ceremony as "a man of quiet dignity" and "baseball's true home run king," (and drunk rednecks behind me yelled, "TRUE ONE! TRUE ONE!"), because it's just exploitative. But those stats are, like, good.

I think the arrival of players like Stewart, Delle Donne, Diggins, Griner, et al. have brought a positive breathe of fresh air to women's basketball. Whether or not that change will trickle up and down, remains to be seen.

"He never hit more than 47 home runs in a year, never hit better than .355"

One more for the "dignity" pile. Tom Verducci, 4/8/14: "Aaron and [Al] Downing made for an especially sweet picture of friendship and dignity. "

Glad to see coverage of women's basketball, Stewart is a great player that I don't think too many regular sports fans know about.

"... and even though it's only this big, the power trip I get from this job makes me feel like I'm Dirk Diggler."

An alternate theory is that women's basketball, like all sports, is in the midst of a natural ebb and flow between phases of specialized, positional paragons and versatile, role-breaking hybrids. Whenever the equilibrium shifts too far in one direction (*ahem* Shaq), it swings back in the other (Durant, LeBron, etc.)

Typical Deadspin bombast and flamboyancy. Why can't you guys be more discrete about it, like Rick Reilly?

Ooh, ooh! Don't forget relentlessly bombing a people for a decade and all imperialist aggression! We should never forget there are consequences for actions.

Oops. Guess I shouldn't have surfed Wikiquote until I found something vaguely meaningful-sounding. My bad, guys.

Couldn't they have found a quote from a 'Merican? Marine Todd has a lot of good one-liners...

Just nobody tell Fox News that the commemorative quote on the 9/11 memorial is about two gay terrorists ... or, if you do, give me time to heat up some popcorn first.

I approve of the quote. Most viewers will understand it to be a kind memorial to the victims, and there's a darker - but important - message for those who are more informed. We should never forget the devastating consequences of mixing fundamentalist religion with desperation.