watching the mets makes me feel a lot better about myself than watching the reds

I have the body of a professional athlete!

Pete Alonso looks like my dad after winning the July 4th splash contest. 

Even as recently as, say, 15 or 20 years ago, the typical person didn’t read the New York Times regularly, and certainly didn’t read the opinion section regularly. And yet, you probably knew, through osmosis or whatever, that it was the paper of record, written by elites, with its opinion section being the most…

Can you imagine how thin-skinned you have to be to be called a “bedbug” and have a multi-week meltdown about it? WTF. How have Brooks’s friends & family not staged an intervention at this point and shipped him off to some baseball fantasy camp or to a vineyard tour or wherever it is that rich white men going when…

Football’s emphasis on “toughness” means “conditioning” is a means of weeding out and punishing. As in bad idea.

One, good point.

You are right. I watched all five episodes this year. It’s called Hard Knocks.

That’s the MLB.com video player, but I will anyway

As for the team’s upcoming game, that has been delayed one day and will be played on Saturday instead of Friday.

cancel the fucking game. the fuck is wrong with these freaks. 

They’re teenagers, one of their friends died, and they move the game back ONE DAY?

I seem to recall a Deadspin take that it was actually good that and admirable that Lavar was starting his own brand of overpriced, crappy sneakers made by Asian sweatshop wage slaves and subjecting his son to them as opposed to taking a 7-figure deal from one of the existing makers of overpriced, but less crappy…

“I was told that was what Joe West wanted...”

Pretty sure they closed the discussion because the point is they don’t care who you have, and I don’t think posting it on an article highlighting someone dealing with their civil rights being violated is probably the place you should make it known to all of us how jacked you are about Denver’s defense.

“I had for six months in my head, since the semifinals between Toronto and Milwaukee, how to stop Antetokounmpo.”

“A single that isn’t a walk” is also known as a single.

the foul-drawing is key. I’m bonking into the defender and flailing my arms and hoping that the ref has a vendetta against the opposing team