Isn’t Gilbert’s fortune basically built on a variant on this Simpsons exchange?

Almost, but not quite. The issue here is one part of the area may have a higher % of rain than another part of the area. Yes, the math ultimately does come out to say that, if you stay in one spot, you are at a certain likelihood to get rain based on the expected probability of rain for all of the area taking into…

Ah, you got it backwards, Barry. The soulless, inexorcisable undead that won’t go away have spent the last two weeks holding — and covering — political conventions.

I haven’t heard anything about that. Since when do single-A players “demand trades”? Got a source?

No matter what happens I just want to say thank you to all the Deadspin staff. I started reading your articles about 5 years ago. Before that I barely paid attention to sports news, because I thought they were all like ESPN or SI. You guys helped me to develop a greater love for sports by showing them in a more…

MLS will never be world class until its players are blackmailing each other.

It’s the catch-22 catch.

all the local Star Wars peeps were at the state museum imax which was showing it in some rare aspect ratio only in 12 theaters nationwide. Even the fucking governor was there shaking hands. Lopez fucked up the location and went to a shit theatre