Well that’s part and parcel with embracing mistakes, right?

(pssst, that was a reference to LaRoch retiring when the Sox wouldn’t allow his kid in the clubhouse)

... Because he’s one of the best pitchers in baseball?

It's a bold move to throw a new cutter into his arsenal this late in the season.

Pretty childish act if you ask me. Makes me wonder how he was allowed in the clubhouse for as long as it's been.

Hate to be the stickler for biblical verbing Tom, but “smote” is the past tense, not the infinitive/present tense.

Another take: Rickon is a fucking idiot, who threw away the chance for Ned Stark’s only legitimate, non-magic son to rule because he didn’t know how to run serpentine.

He’s actually torn here between his hatred of urban bikers and his hatred of Obama.

Oh, so now’s you’re shouting police brutality because the person on the receiving end is *gasp* white?

This is a reasonable and correct take and has no place in Kinja.

I’m fine with Bernie staying in the race to accumulate votes and show Democrats that there is broad, national support for a progressive agenda. I am not alright with him staying in the race in a desperate bid to win.

Kid: Holy shit, that ball boy might have just saved my life!

A) that’s a very long bat weight and B) that’s a rather wide bat weight. Widest part of the standard college bat is less than 3 inches. The diameter of a baseball is 2.9 inches. So, the weight is on the widest part of the bat yet stays on? And the ball passes right through with about 10% extra space on all sides? I’m…

Peak take season is the baseball hot stove meetings. Or, as I like to call it: The Easy Take Oven.

Which odds are more astronomical: the ball finding that gap in the netting, or it finding an occupied seat at a Rays game?

I look forward to this being, inevitably, ruined by a presidential campaign.

The song is different, but the moves are the same.

The Wisconsin version is just a bunch of white guys doing the Carlton.

Pondering the “what if” situations in sports is the lowest form of sports conversation. What if your mother and father never met? What if Lebron played football instead of basketball?

So this is what the Deadspin staff talk about all day...