Kanell is kind of the worst, and it’s like Kanell knows that and is proud of it which only makes it even worse.

I used to have the same problem right up until he partnered with Danny Kannell on the radio.

I’m a big fan of that ESPN radio/TV show Gen-X Cracker Jagoff Who Played Professional Sports For a Time and Gen-X Cracker Jagoff Who Had a Different Career Path.

“Please hand in your mustache and your Jerry Jones Stenography Kit.”

See? That right there...

Good rebuttal.

Maybe don’t encourage someone to actively make themselves less healthy and more likely to die young.

You have the argumentative style of an unsuccessful high school debater. You like to quibble—because you’re lazy and quibbling is easy. But you don’t quibble to clarify or elucidate, you only do it because it makes you feel clever. Except you also demonstrate neither mastery of the specific facts at hand (as evidenced…

You should probably never write this much again.

I love how this pivots to shitting on Boston. There’s nothing those of us in flyover country love more than Pretentious East Coast In-Fighting.

Bananas are only...wait, how *could* you afford it? And why? I don’t eat that much of anything in a day.

That’s because you don’t grasp baseball. The pitcher intentionally walked the guy before him. Ask a friend who knows what that means, then think about why the hitter was overjoyed to hit a homerun.

Meh. They intentionally walked the guy in front of him to put a runner in scoring position. That’s equally disrespectful. And, I’m wading into the muddy waters of unwritten rules, but:
If you’ve just been disrespected, I feel like you’re justified in rubbing your success in the other teams face.

Deadspin goes farther than I would in automatically castigating baseball’s (yes, at times dumb) unwritten rules. Being a cocky shit isn’t the same thing as having fun (I’d never rip raw emotion), and there are elements of the culture that to me are kind of baby/bathwater situations.

Translation: The Twins have a tee time on the same course as the Indians, just one week later.