Here’s a question to ponder: Why did Duquette decide to use Mark Trumbo, a guy who has so far played exactly one season in Baltimore, as an exemplar of the Orioles’ working-class values rather than, say, Adam Jones, an excellent player who has been the beating heart of the Orioles for many years now?

MLB minimum salary is north of $500k, where are these “working class” players?

You can’t really dress up as an Indian or cowboy anymore, and recently a lot of the public has turned on the police. There just aren’t a lot of good options left.

Why did Duquette decide to use Mark Trumbo, a guy who has so far played exactly one season in Baltimore, as an exemplar of the Orioles’ working-class values rather than, say, Adam Jones, an excellent player who has been the beating heart of the Orioles for many years now?

I really appreciate when he does shit like this so I don’t have to feel so dumb for hating him.

I once finished a 5 lb. bag of Trolli Brite Crawlers in less than two days. Of course, that was just once. And I was 25. And I did this thing called exercise.

When asked why Dwight wouldn’t eat hard candy, former teammate Kobe Bryant offered the following quote:

Jonah wrote for ESPN, Baseball Prospectus, etc., and also finance outlets long before Grantland’s launch; his rep was already solid and prominent.

As a UM homer I appreciate this take, and I’d like to think that if he were coaching a rival school I’d feel similarly. Because on one level, my allegiances aside, I follow sports like a reality TV show, with characters and narratives and shit, and that’s not to say it can’t get real. I really, really appreciated…

Harbaugh: Twitter is a great resource for recruiting, especially when it comes to offensive linemen. You wouldn’t believe how many people are looking for a RT on there.

Active on Twitter and careful to not stir up the trolls yet still wears ten dollar Wal-Mart khakis. Oh Jim Harbaugh, you are such an enigma.

Oh, also, I’ll say that within the next 24 hours he’ll say he was joking, but we’ll never really know if he was telling the truth, or if he was just covering up after the fallout. There is a small possibility that he’ll claim it was a joke, and then Jonah will post Bill’s angry texts to him on twitter to prove it…

Bill, you can’t take responding to viewer/reader mail and write about it on another website, it’s not yours.

I’ve been refreshing Deadspin for the last half hour waiting for you guys to post about this. Basically, there’s three ways to take this:

When the fuck is Simmons not being an insufferable jackass???

Holy shit. I can’t wait to see Simmons ROAST Jonah on his hit TV show.

I miss Grantland. I don’t miss Simmons.

Is this beef overrated, underrated, or properly marinated?

D.B. Pooper

This, plus more water bills.