Makes sense. http://nfl-arrests.pointafter.com/d/a/New-York-J…

Okay, I’ll bite. What was this expansion 16 years ago?

It’s better than only surrounding yourselves with opinions that are the same as yours. Groupthink is more dangerous than the tension of opposing ideas.

Agreed. I wouldn’t object to an editorial or a political endorsement. But I would be very disappointed to learn they were insidiously filtering information based on a targeted political agenda.

eh.... kinda. Sometimes. Not exactly.

True that. I much prefer hanging out with the cynics who shit all over everything.

I can always count on Deadspin and the comment section to let me know who is good and bad. No group think here. Not at all.

I will respectfully disagree with your conclusion. On just about everything you wrote. Prayer and meditation are not by definition all that different. Prayer is often about changing the heart and mind of the one doing the praying - often times to “accept the way things are”. The practice (even the concept) of prayer…

Sure, if you subscribe to the fallacy that science and faith are incompatible. I would wholeheartedly agree that the current incarnation of right-wing co-opting of the Jesus brand name is intellectually stunting, but science and faith are not incompatible, any more than leather car seats and telephones. One does not…

I hate to burst your bubble, but it has been documented that prayer and meditation actually increase brain activity.

We are ALL racist, whether you want to acknowledge that or not. It’s the self-awareness (or lack thereof) of our inherent prejudices that mitigates the amount of harm we do to each other with words or actions.

Again, didn’t come up with the Braves.

“Fucked up, tricked type” delivery? How so?

Didn’t come up with Braves.

Who else?

Close enough!

Be careful out there, Chicago.

A home run pass? The sports cliche’ machine is broken.

Unless you count the one (and arguably two) QB who came into the league this year and started at a Pro Bowl level.

This is old hat for Braves fans. We are quite used to bats not making contact.