God in the morning, this article alone is the saddest testimony to what a ruin the Kinja transition has made of the old AV Club Commentariat. This woulda had HUNDREDS of comments under Disqus. Now, there’s nothing, just a lone tumbleweed in the corner, moldering slowly into dust.

This wedding does not sound very good.

He had other pitches to hit. This is so stupid. Yes, he threw at him on the first pitch (possibly another) and most probably meant to throw a ball on the last, but Siri had several other good pitches to hit. Try not to suck when the pitcher actually gives you one to hit.

The sheer randomness of their inception, though, means it would be totally fine if we one day decided to change them, too.

You know, I was just about to defend Machado for going for it instead of scooping it in foul territory before it can roll fair (which 3Bs do a surprising amount), then I rewatched the video. He was absolutely loafing back there, then reacted to the ball being on it’s way fair. He didn’t read the spin at all, he just…

What is the big deal? The bag is fair territory and the ball was rolling towards it. If he hadn’t done exactly what he did, it would have been a lazy mistake.

Obviously you didn’t watch how many of the players LOVE playing for their country and the fans that come out for the games are amazing. Marlin park set an attendance record today, for not a MLB game. It is too bad what happened, but dudes hurt themselves washing cars, and moving boxes also.

In 2015 spring training, the Jays lost two players for most of the season - Michael Saunders fucked up his knee stepping on a sprinkler head and Marcus Stroman tore his ACL practicing how to field bunts. Shit happens.

It’s a freak accident. And as you said, it could’ve happened in regular old spring training. Players participate because they find joy and pride, and I think international baseball is cool.

He also seems to have answered them all correctly. “No, I am not king of Sports. Yes, Putin is the disturbingly unrivaled leader of the second most powerful country of earth.” I feel like the interviewer was expecting to see an unforced error and so went with boilerplate.

But what if the photo is newsworthy?

Punch was not Orvil Dryfoos’ son. He was his brother-in-law.

HamNo thinks he’s so funny. He isn’t.

Wow you’re like a level 50 internet tough guy now!

this is a really long, odd post.

Oh, fuck off.

Why in the fuck would you donate it back to Denton? Yay, let’s give a multi-millionaire and a Russian sovereign/hedge fund back the money that they squandered, no strings attached.

I just tried. It was a rat-shit gumbo of annoying voices and denial.

Whoever the new owner is they better make Drew start putting “Deadcast” in the title of these posts. Tricks me every time.