Thanks! She’s a sweet little kid, so far, even if she does pose like she’s about to drop the sickest diss track of 2016.

I have an 8 month old baby. What’s the age when kids start going to those things? Should I start stretching now?

That’s a lovely hot tub enclosure. +1 for starting DeadsPintrest

Sorry if I can’t stand that some defensive end gets more touchdowns than a hard-working fullback.

It’s a pretty good troll move, no doubt. But I think the game’s too complex for the refs - clearly - so anything to make their jobs easier while renewing the importance of the fullback is fine with me.

Thanks for your input, Captain Strawman.

Big difference between having linemen play the line and zero creativity. Having less linemen-eligible plays means more importance for the fullback and multiple TE sets.

<sort of real sports take>Or, how about doing away with linemen catching the ball? No more tackle-eligible plays; no more offensive lineman declaring themselves eligible, period. I think it’d be easier on the refs to not have to keep track if an extra tackle lined up as a tight end or not (especially since they’ve…

Very true, but it’s really hard to convince Buchanon, Dickenson, Wise Counties, etc.., all with 8+ % unemployment and household income averaging 30k or so out in Appalachia to sponsor legislation to improve transit in Arlington County, with over 100k household income, almost unhealthy unemployment, over 3 times the…

WMATA has a weird set up in which the three entities it serves - Virginia, DC and Maryland - typically give variable amounts of money to the service. One of the complaints during the prelude to this current suckage was that managers couldn’t plan for maintenance breaks, say, taking a portion of the Red Line out of…

The incident on Monday was similar to an incident last January that killed one rider and trapped dozens of riders in a smoke-filled tunnel. Apparently the checks that had been done under the previous GM overlooked at least six faulty wires that could cause yet another fire. WMATA’s been legendary in delaying…

I’m an O’s fan, but the year that he was drafted, there was a lot of debate as to how the Orioles would use their pick. There were a ton of folks who wanted Smoak; instead, we got Brian Matusz.

I think both of our teams would like a do-over on that one.

+1, and for just a pledge of $50 to your local PBS station, you can receive this ASL totebag

It is that indeed.

I like Deadspin - hence the sports-related pun username - and I like cars, tech and worked in the media for years. I’m too lazy to get a specific Kinja name, and it’s better than my old Jezebel name.

Please, stop laughing. I just opened up part of my soul there. It was a dark time.

He’s half right!

Well, you just praised him on the line above, so, there’s that.

+1 for the Shmoo reference

Yeah, this guy’s going to be on all the “2016's Dumbest Criminals” lists.

I worked in downtown for a few different agencies during the years that Metro went from “OK” to “getting lousy” to “we just killed a bunch of people.” Being right next to the Smithsonian stop, I’d hear tourists exclaim to their kids or school or church groups “This is the best subway system in America!” One afternoon…

I have yet to see any credible evidence that there’s anything more terror-related than WMATA itself.

To be fair, DC sucked a lot more when the Metro system was designed than it does now.

I like the part where you judge a man for things he wrote over a decade ago when he was much younger and didn’t have a fully evolved world view yet. That’s really open-minded and evolved of you. I’m sure you shot out of the womb eating cruelty-free Cheerios’ and only bought the minority versions of Barbie dolls.