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rude of the email of the week to make me cry tbh.

I didn’t know this. Thanks man. 

I feel like venture capitalists would consider theft a sport, right?

Football is a game with many problems, but it must be the best sport out there for showcasing the stupid great skill and athletic ability of these guys have in an extremely visceral “there is no fucking way I could do that” sort of way. Like, I intellectually know that doing anything useful against a 100 mph fastball… Read more

WHY ARE “RECENT VIDEOS FROM DEADSPIN” AUTO-PLAYING. MAKE IT STOP. I AM SO FUCKING DONE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST QUIT RUINING DEADSPIN.

This is actually a pretty common thing among very tall NBA players, and one that has been written about in WaPo and elsewhere. Durant doesn’t want to be a seven footer, and neither did Kevin Garnett and several others. Broadly, seems like the story is that they’re people who felt insecure about being taller than… Read more

Fans might take the game more seriously if it weren’t being called Snyder-Man: Homecoming

If only all NFL owners had the moral fortitude to just not sign a headhunting sociopath, but let’s be real here. Not like he did something dangerous or distracting like, I dunno, refusing to stand for the national anthem.

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

I think OP is conflating the Alpine Slide with the slide of the type seen at many fairs, which is ridden on a sack.

The goal of taking on a vegetarian or vegan diet, or even just eating less meat, is to support animal welfare and to choose foods whose production contributes less to global warming. Read more

to be fair that video shows exactly why the unassisted triple play gets so little love despite being super rare. They are cool, quirky things that are awesome to be able to see exactly because they are so rare. But usually have nothing to do with actual impressive baseball talent. Two runners have to be on, and… Read more

I feel similarly about watching Johan Santana in the mid 00's. His starts were class-skip-worthy offenses, and the feeling of the lineup and the whole team was just different when he was up there. I wanted so badly for him to overcome the shoulder injuries that started plaguing him even back in 2002/3. There were… Read more

and the sound of you jerkin’ it. Read more

Nah, it’s the kermit drinking tea meme.
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It doesn’t if you limit it to “Team A has these players, and Team B has these players, and they’re playing today”. Read more

Maybe spend less time block quoting random text and more time learning some reading comprehension. Read more

I think it’s more that the front office hasn’t built up enough goodwill with its own players to get them to see this as anything other than a forced promo stunt for the benefit of the marketing department at the expense of their own interests.

I imagine you can get them sooner than that if you want.  He’ll probably do an interview or two in the runup to the draft.  No need to wait five and a half months.