One of my favorite parts of big boxing matches is how everyone becomes a huge boxing expert out of nowhere.

What you say is perfectly accurate and correct, therefore since you posted this perfectly level-headed and accurate take to Deadspin, prepare yourself to be called a closet racist, sexist, misogynistic asshole who completely missed the point about how Serena Williams was a victim here and she’s the greatest of all…

I just don’t get it.. why is it so difficult to just treat EVERYONE the way they want to be treated. Why is so difficult to understand to treat everyone with basic respect and decency regardless of colour/race/gender? I mean I don’t understand why a class needs to be taught.

Who the hell do you think you are, speaking thoughtfully and with so much nuance?

But seriously, thanks for your work as an umpire and ref, and this take is the right take.

College football referee and baseball umpire here. So much of the commentary about this event has ascribed motivation to this official’s action, most of which is probably unwarranted. Ramos’s sole motivation was to enforce the rules, and enforce them as consistently as he could. He almost certainly didn’t want to…

Way off on Montano. Look at the three decade history of MMA, across any promotion domestic or abroad, and name one champion who was allowed to keep their title after either missing weight or failing to make the scale.

Woodley is doing the only thing he can in an industry that has fewer employee rights than the NFL. He’s controlling his own narrative but doing it in a way that forces fans and the UFC to give in eventually. 

He doesn’t really spy on the city. The city is already being spied on by their shitty Bloomberg Mayor Norman Osborn and he just taps into it to actually help people. He also catches homeless people’s lost pigeons. 

I do curfew checks where I work and the police come with us as both a security measurement and a community outreach. One of the mother’s of the kids we did these checks on said she didn’t want the police to come to the house because she didn’t want anyone to get shot. The city I work in (somewhat large and violent) has…

I know this is a weird and unpopular concept for the people of this site, but most cops are just commoners who want to help their community. Definitely take a minute to breathe and compose yourself before responding.

Spider-Man, and all superheroes by extension, are cops. They just don't go fulfilling the will of the State.

So glad to know I don’t exist. I can stop paying all these bills.

I heard one of the commentators opine during said shit show that maybe Serena was throwing a tantrum because it might help her to get psychologically back into the game - so I agree with your observation. Also - and rarely mentioned - was that Serena was also breaking the other player’s rhythm and concentration by…

I’m not sure that’s how quotation marks work. 

a suspect code violation for coaching

No, as you summed it up:

I guess results may vary. I can look back on my comment history of comments that gathered 3-digit number of stars but would never be ungreyed so I just stop trying and became more or less a silent reader.

“Wherever you happen to fall on Serena’s behavior Saturday night, I’m sure you agree with me that this is the umpire’s fault.”

A third option is that Williams was intentionally ratcheting up the situation in a fruitless attempt to heighten her own level of play and intensity, and to intimidate her young opponent, because those things have worked in the past. They didn’t work yesterday.

“...and said that neither the officer nor anyone else who may have witnessed the shooting had been interviewed yet.