This led me down a quick YouTube wormhole of NFL QB cadences, who sounds like what, how are different QBs’ cadences unique, etc. Kind of like baseball batting stances. But in the end, I can only say: John Elway... holy shit.

I’m not sure. But they do have a top-of-the-table crest.

KG would’ve won the Game of Thrones by season 2.

We’ve got to stop turning Infinite Jest into shorthand for “Thing people pretend they read so they can sound smart.” It’s a great, great book, and isn’t a difficult read! Ulysses! Gravity’s Rainbow! The Sound and the Fury! Those are legitimately tough, painful slogs. Infinite Jest is a joy, all ten thousand whatever…

“They don’t have many other choices. Game 3 is Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. If you are a Chicago-area supplier of candles, grimoires, and/or live fowl, sell sell sell.”

I just have to say, in all earnestness, this might be the best passage I’ve ever read in my 9 years of reading this site.

I can’t deny that these “play-in” games are exciting. They’re super exciting. But it’s a gross, phony excitement. Total fabrication. Baseball just isn’t built for 1 game to be so crucial. Any team can beat any other team in one game. A minor league team could win one game against any team in the majors. It’s…

I got excited for a moment because I thought Sean Rodriguez was punching Marlins Guy.

Serious question: What’s the explanation of how it seems so easy and common in black Christian culture for men to become ministers and start their own churches? I feel like in ‘traditional’ Catholic/protestant/European/whatever religious culture, it demands a good amount of schooling, study, working your way up some…

...the Aristocrats!

You joke, but yes.

Goodell won’t blinky at signing inky on his pinky slip.

“I shoulda gone to art school.”

That play was some Inception-level WTF baseball. So Grichuk can’t throw with effort, and he tosses it to the RF. Fine. But then he gets in the RF’s way, who just casually tosses it to the cutoff man, a throw that the Grichuk probably could’ve made anyway without excess effort. At that point, Rizzo, who has an easy…

Clearly this isn’t “on the record,” but I remember reading previously it’s a play on “Dead ESPN > DeadSPN > Deadspin.” Add to that the fact that “Deadspin” sounds like it might be some sort of baseball or tennis term, and it worked. But again... that’s just my recollection of a previous explanation!

Are you sure it wasn’t 11 years ago? Because I have a specific memory of reading this site for the first time in the summer of 2004, but the timeline clearly doesn’t add up and I’m scared.

Geez, it’s like he’s never seen a 19 year old hit a ball that far before.

The Dolphins are the last team I’d be able to list if I was doing one of those “Name every NFL team in 1 minute” quizzes.

I’m seein’ double! Four Rizzos!