The odds of a 2.9" baseball going through a 4-5" gap directly behind home plate are actually pretty high. Doesn’t seem astronomical - seems negligent.

I don't care what the odds are, that is incredibly negligent to leave any gap in netting that close to the plate

The conclusion here—that on balance, the benefits of disc brakes aren’t worth the risks—may very well be correct. However, one thing that’s missing from almost all the opinions I’ve read on the subject is that the performance of rim brakes on carbon wheel brake tracks is woefully inconsistent. In the last few years,…

I creeped through your history. You called a Subaru Legacy wagon “perfect”. Your judgement on styling is questionable at best.

The difficulty comes in determining whether only revenue sports would get paid (in which case they produce a substantial amount of profit and could be paid handsomely) or all athletes (in which case most departments lose money).

That seriously looked intentional

Nope, unintended defenestration.

That is your reserve and your backpack that makes you look like a pregnant rhinoceros beetle. As soon as you unass the plane, there are two pulldown tabs that connect the backpack to you. If you pull those, your 100 pound pack then drops down on a 20 foot tether. This line now gives you another few ways of getting…

Sure you’re a doctor. Bless your heart!

Ha! Dude wanted a Trout souvenir, but only came away with a red herring.

The Mom’s right hand—what a whammer!

It’s been Affirmed? — RIP Barbaro.

GTFO idiot

Starting now I am banning anybody that mentions traveling.

I’m all for these kinds of “resto-mods.” The collectors have basically wrecked the market for old muscle cars (ever seen the auction prices for a Hemi ‘Cuda?) so to me I like the idea of taking lower-trim cars and building them up with modern tech. I saw a guy on some forum who restored a ‘70 Challenger SE, but…

You should comment less.

This isn’t Darwinism. This is teenaged boys and their teenaged brains at work. Most of us escape our teen years having done something stupid that could have killed us. It’s a sad story and the fact that these boys were brothers compounds that tragedy.

I should keep this to myself. but two bottles of cheap plonk down. heregoes;

So like lemme preface this by saying I really only come to Deadspin to make stupid jokes and sometimes make fun of the Gawker crowd and also to be like “Hey guys remember when this was just a vanity project for Will ‘The Man From Mattoon’ Leitch? Did he ever get to be grand marshal of the Bagel Days Parade?” But when…

If wood were invented in the 21st century, it would be a miracle material.