In the last Fast & Furious movie, there is a nice bit where the guy Vin Diesel beats in contractually required car race at the beginning helps Vin Diesel later in the movie. It’s a good metaphor for character relations as the movie series developed. At a certain point, Vin Diesel and his crew stopped racing for pink…

As Michael Caine said, “You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.”

Except of turning to a psychotic, implausibly lucky clown, they turned to a media company with no business model that…

Yes, you spotted the subtle irony of my post. Congratulation on your doctorate in English.

For those who’ve seen American Vandal on Netflix, this would make a hell of a subject for season 2.

Great, an entire feature on one of my least favorite things in pop culture fandom: the skeptic trying to justify their indifference to a genre/artist/work of art. You don’t like anime or Frank Zappa? No problem, most people live rich and fulfilling lives without giving a shit about either.

I mean, this is not the…

The Cubs have been doing this for a while.

(Believe me, you rather hear me whining about this than how much winning the NL Central MEANS to this team!)

I agree with all of this. I will also add that it’s important to understand Chait’s emotional temperament. He essentially sees everything through the prism of Michigan-OSU rivalry. If you’ve read Chait long enough, you will know he’s a Michigan grad, that he doesn’t think college football players should be paid, and…

Bill James enjoys being a counter-intuitive gadfly who prefers to ignore experts in the field to form his own opinions.

I have fond memories of playing Diplomacy once a semester (or year) during college. A group of us would gather together on a Saturday morning and spend the whole day playing it. The matter of time and effort and necessary to play this, simple-in-comparison, game makes it nearly impossible for me to comprehend trying…

That’s an insult to the brain dead, who would be incapable of sending Harvey out again to get his arm to fall off.

This is far more impressive (and certainty more terrifying) than winning 23 games in a row.

When you’re down 8, sometimes you have to take weird, dumb, bad risks on the basepaths so you’ll be down 7 in the best case scenario. It’s what John McGraw would have done.

I feel like it’s a personal failure that there are people who don’t know about the Nippon Ham Fighters. Deadspin should do a story about the team every day.

Indians are currently the best team in baseball, but it’s absurd to compare them to the 1998 Yankees. What the Indians have done over a month the Yankees did over a season. And if winning lots of games in a row is what decides if a team is great or not that would mean the 1935 Cubs are the greatest team of all time.…

You forgot to mention Tom Herman is a former OC for Meyer. So former relationships do not save your from Meyer’s wrath.

Well, he’s more on the business side... wait, he never ran a business. Uhh... well, for legal questions... wait, he doesn’t have a law degree. Umm... well, you see...

This is good analysis, but the bottom line is the suit was filed in the Fifth Circuit, the Fifth Circuit has a hard-on for arbitration, Elliott is going to lose, and his lawyers are leading him on just so they can more of those billable hours.

My God.

Unlikely, as boxers who are not Floyd Mayweather will have more reasons to try to punch him, meaning he’s going down more often.

It’s hard to be a “spectacle” if you get knocked the fuck down in the first round in every fight.

There’s something about modern culture where you can’t just dislike someone on an emotional level, you have to have a great reason to hate them. So even though people are entitled to dislike Taylor Swift (I mean, she’s a rich pop star, those are people easy to dislike), we still need to invent some crazyass conspiracy…