Fan interference or no, Martinez wasn’t catching that.

That ruins the “cool move” narrative, which is the only way Deadspin bloggers post about combat sports in the first place. 

And as a result, it means changes to the timing can be the decisive factor in who wins. Ken Jennings’ streak ended after they changed the person doing the buzzer timings, and his precisely honed buzzer skills were suddenly off.

Even in a conventional war I’m not sure tanks are going to be all that effective. They don’t have enough anti-aircraft or anti-missile capability, and while a blitz from a tank column is bad news if you’ve only got infantry, smart batteries and drones can make short work of them. Javelins are expensive but a fraction…

There’s no such thing as TOP GUN. There’s TOPGUN, the former classified designation of what is today named the Strike Fighter Tactics Instruction program, and there’s Top Gun, a Navy recruiting film produced by Paramount Pictures and starring Tom Cruise.

Sure. And Johnny Lee Miller has appeared on screen as Sherlock Holmes for about 10 times as many hours as Basil Rathbone, but Johnny Lee Miller is not the definitive Sherlock Holmes, either.

Rock has been dead for 20 years. Get over it.

D’Asian has a presence in many countries, so if you can convince their servers that you are in e.g. France or something, you can stream tons of stuff from the US as well local sports.

Horse meat performs better in blind taste tests and is more nutritionally balanced than beef. The only difference is which animals we deem acceptable to eat.

Barry is most likely to say “good as hell” but least likely to wax about insulation and weight distribution as futures. Roth is the only one who would do that.

Ben Simmons: better at nut shots than ball shots.

Yeah, that’s exactly it. It’s like something taking place in London in the 60s and having a bunch of mods listening to the Rolling Stones. The people who recognize how weird and discordant it is aren’t the target audience, it’s kids who don’t identify anything other than being from a particular decade.

Retiring numbers is a dumb tradition anyway. I get Jackie Robinson because of the huge impact he had, but overall it seems to me the best way to honor great players of the past is to have the great players of the present carry their roster numbers again.

How hard would a ball have to be hit to send a dinger all the way into space for real?

It’s extremely difficult to provide comprehensive protection from this kind of trolling. Even if you match “nigger” and “nigga” and all the capital/lowercase variations thereof, there are still tons of ways to trick them: “niggger”, “NIGG€R”, “Nıgger” (using Turkish dotless i), etc. How would you even identify…

1. New York means less to players because New York Teams aren’t very good these days, with the exception of the MLS Red Bulls and maybe the Yankees, and celebrity there has shifted somewhat away from athletes. The draw to New York wasn’t just that it was the biggest city, but also because meant the biggest stage, the…

How long can a club not pay a player before that player’s contract is deemed severed due to non-performance? If players aren’t getting paid, at some point they ought to be entitled to leave and sign new contracts elsewhere - representing not just a free transfer for the players, but loss of those contracts would also…

With the Fyre debacle and now this, can we say finally say festivals have peaked and are on the downswing? If the influencers and rich trend followers all get obsessed with some new thing, maybe festivals can go back to being about music again. 

Everyone won’t be an influencer, because I never will be.

Sucking.