i have watched this once. during this viewing a fucking video about fucking wally backman that i have already made the choice not to watch the 200 times it’s been served to me has also been autoplaying, making the experience of this blog about as good as getting kicked repeatedly in the shins.

(If anyone brings up the parallax angle, I swear to god I will end this blog right now.)

I’m convinced the new owners of deadspin bought a massive insurance plan and are intentionally sabotaging the site to cash out. Good article Chris, too bad a half dozen ads and autoplay videos crash it every paragraph. 

We got there an hour and a half early and kept thinking that the gate will open and a crowd of 50,000 would pour in.

apples and mandarins

In Communist China, Scoops Break You. 

My dudes, you have killed Splinter, you laid off a bunch of cool journalists, I have even stuck with you through your auto-play video ads that kill my YouTube video playing in the background, but if you don’t stop these ads that auto-forward my ipad to some “install flash player now!” website with no back button so I…

He’s literally famous (infamous?) for being a Nats fan, and accruing massive debt from buying Nats season tickets.

He’s a Nats fan. In fact, he went deeply into debt paying for Nats season tickets, but that debt was paid off by someone in the months leading up to his nomination to the Supreme Court for reasons that were not looked into very much and evidently don’t matter anymore. 

Leave a ham like this out for too long uncured and, you guessed it. Rottenham.

Maybe, but I’m pretty sure they throw home if they think they have any chance of stopping the runner there. Keeping it a tie game is way more valuable than preventing the runner from advancing to third. I can believe it was intentional, but I’m not sure it was a good decision.

I was walking down Huntington Ave in Boston, a few blocks from where the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays. A car pulled over and the driver asked, “How do you get to Symphony Hall?” Did I take the biggest, juiciest, lowest-hanging fruit ever and shout, “Practice!”? No. I said, “Oh, it’s around the corner and on the…

It’s like my grandmother used to always say: “If you want to win a bike race, don’t roll your rear tyre.”

Could have been worse- usually when a Colombian ends up 80 kilos short, his whole family gets murdered.

Planes fly due to the Bernoulli effect. And because I know this, I was able to nail the goddamn New Yorker and their legendary fact-checkers such that they had to print this correction!

“We knew people had died there, but it was the ‘80s” is the best synopsis of that decade I can think of.

I remember waiting for my mom at the bottom of a slide at Action Park, and when she hit the pool, her tits flew out.  So, my scars were only emotional.

Boras suggests the half-measure of getting baseball’s umpires to “oversee regular toweling of bases during wet weather”

The two “moments” you’ve just raised there don’t have anything to do with charisma or eliteness, so er... ? Is it just that you didn’t like that she did that? Fine, neither did most of us, but we’ve moved on and the issue seems to have rightly died. Even orange asshole has acknowledged that.

You know who else wasn’t ‘electable’ according to the media?