If the Raptors lose this series, they have to do something, but I have no idea what that something could be. Toronto doesn’t draw great free agents, and they’re too good a regular season team to get a high draft pick. Ujiri really doesn’t have a lot of options. I’m not sure what they can do to improve, outside of…

Barack: “Michelle, we have a few months left. What else can we do to both inspire black youth and infuriate racist white folks?”

The worst year of basketball in my adult life, and it’s not even close.

I said the same thing when he horribly misplayed that ball in game 3 of the NLCS. Even as a Mets fan, I felt bad for him. It’s one thing to be a terrible fielder, but it’s another thing to literally not know how to field the position. The former is bad, the latter is dangerous. Schwarber has no idea how to play the…

/adjusts bigger nerd glasses

Villanova is playing in the National Title game tonight and it was announced that Iverson is going into the Hall of Fame. It’s also opening day, which is the only day all season the Phillies won’t be in last place.

I grew up in NYC as a kid obsessed with comics. The first time I was in the Village, I genuinely looked around thinking “where would the Sanctum Sanctorum be?” I knew it wasn’t real, but it was fun to wonder where it would be if it was, you know?

Not only are the Cardinals in last place, but they’re winless in the month of April. Trash.

What you call pampering some might call “a boss trying to make his black employees comfortable in the whitest major city in America.”

There was a time when I might have said Milos Forman was my favorite director (I was borderline obsessed with Amadeus), and yet somehow I never even considered this. My only concern is that Forman hasn’t made a good movie in almost 20 years, so he may be out of his prime, so to speak. But that’s a damn good choice.

With Yao Ming going into the NBA Hall of Fame this year, this seems like a good time to say that Emma’s article on Yao from about five years ago is still the best basketball post Deadspin has ever run. That article was the reason I started reading Deadspin.

Since all of us (okay, most of us) agree that Zack Snyder is bad and he should feel bad, who would be a good Superman director?

Blake Griffin crawling on his hands and knees with Ilana on his back and saying “I’m so close” made me laugh so hard I almost choked.

This is by far the best debate around any sports movie. I think she dropped it on purpose, but there are great arguments for both sides.

Bringing Up Baby is so, so damn good.

I find that usually the people who say “be loud! You’re part of the problem!” are the people who can afford to be loud because they’re in situations where being loud isn’t as dangerous. It’s similar to Susan Sarandon suggesting that Trump might be a better option as president. It’s easy for her to say that because…

Emma Carmichael wrote a piece on Yao Ming a few years back that remains one of my favorite articles Deadspin has posted.

The Royals would be such a likable team if they weren’t such whiny bitches. They’re a young, fast team and I love their style of play, but man... shut the fuck up. You won the World Series and you get to celebrate on opening day in front of the team you beat, which almost never happens. That’s your “revenge” for a…

Oops. It definitely was his slider. My bad.

In his first season back from Tommy John surgery, Harvey posted a 2.71 ERA, with 188 strike outs and a 1.019 WHIP. And he did all that without his splitter, which is probably his second best pitch. His splitter is back now, and reportedly it’s looked great this Spring.