It’s only beef if it comes from cows. 

Tim Marchman always struck me as the quintessential Deadspin writer: well-informed enough to have strong opinions about everything, but no so well-informed that those opinions are ever but incidentally right.

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.

The character that she kills doesn’t even exist in the books, how could that be?

Nuh-uh! Everybody that thinks it was bad is a toxic red-pilling MGTOW misogynistic manchild fanboy bro! Just like Ghostbusters! No one could possibly object to any female centric story without being sexist!

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?

Yeah, despite what the dictionary says you can’t really use medium in that way. 

It’s actually more of an autopilot than the actual autopilot on a commercial plane. Autopilot in a plane doesn’t avoid obstacles or automatically counteract turbulence or anything that an autonomous driving system is supposed to do, it mostly just maintains speed and bearing according to programmed flight plan. Pretty…