Heming and hawing over a star for you

“I think Sabathia is trying to communicate that whatever words caught Garcia’s attention were intended for home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi”

Good for her. No, really. Plenty of white parents who adopt children of color never change their views, even when directly faced with the racism their child experiences. I don’t expect people to know what we know through personal experience. When someone finally has that epiphany and revelation, I am thankful for…

I’ve been fine with the goofs so far but I would caution the team that in the event of a goal against the Netherlands they should be careful with any finger in the dike celebrations

I think Fairstein’s portrayal is not only accurate, but probably as flattering as she could possibly expect.

This article’s summary of this research is so bad that it borders on willful falsehood. Here’s the actual result from the study:

If it’s more important for you to have an emotional “moment” than to have a fair outcome, go watch a fucking movie.  

don’t know why anyone is surprised. right wing media, repubs started bashing hillary clinton immediately after obama won the reelection. she was the likely frontrunner so they started early.

I’m a huge hit at Passover, though.

The guy goes “I demand you blow up this team midseason and wreck the future of the franchise by not being able to get close to fair value for me, because I demand to go right now during the season instead of after it” and the people responsible for the toxic environment are the executives who quite correctly told him…

to be technical, you’ve got a part standing for the whole, so it’s a synechdookie

Wow, Taiwan got ROC’d.

This is beneath Deadspin. Tablet doesn’t “have it out” for Salazar by reporting her lies any more than the New York Times “has it out” for Trump by publishing the anonymous op-ed. Tablet’s a good, nonpartisan publication, that did some very important reporting by uncovering that, among other things, Salazar openly…

I’m sure these kids have seen enough divers the last few days.

they need to hide some Germans on their team

Yeah, and he did all this after he had his leg amputated on the sideline from that horrific impact he endured a minute before. I tell ya, these soccer players are heroic.

She wouldn’t be the first Christie to fuck with someone’s lane.