On the other hand, they chose to play football at this school, with that coach, in that culture.

A half-dozen links taking potshots at Bezos for his management of the Post in an article ultimately demonstrating the revealed preference of every Post sportswriter is . . . to stick with his management?

I can think of a few reasons poorly-paid staff of a VC-backed sports blog that flamed out would have less-than-positive feelings about well-paid staff of a different VC-backed sports blog.

Losing the NLDS in 5 games twice in a row under Baker was definitely underachieving, but is also worlds ahead of the pathetic effort this season has been. Martinez is completely out of his depth. 

I’ll never really understand why culture and chemistry are as important in baseball, a very individualistic sport, as they are, but how the fuck do you add multiple relievers who tank your culture and chemistry in the course of three years?

That’s a good call, although they at least have the nominal excuse of being the New England Patriots rather than the Boston Patriots.

Seriously—is there another stadium in the entire NFL that can even remotely compete with how inaccessible Levi’s is from downtown of its ostensible city?

The same thing is happening in the political sphere and our trusted media companies are losing scoops to unverified Twitter handles.

So breach of contract is cool as long as you know better than your counterparty?

/CTRL+F “Scalise.”

We very nearly had a Charlie Hebdo level attack on a group of GOP congressmen only a year and change ago, and look how useful that’s been in tamping down violent #resistance rhetoric. 

In the absence of the NCAA rules, however, wouldn’t we assume Nike would have included a prohibition on resale as part of the sponsorship agreement? It does them no promotional good to give away a bunch of free swag to athletes who then turn it around for a quick buck rather than actually, y’know, promote the product.

I’m generally in favor of giving NCAA athletes greater freedom of contract to actually earn a share of the economic value they generate, but in this particular example, it’s not clear to me how such freedom would have changed the outcome (beyond limiting these mind-boggling penalties).

Nah--hunt them down and host a cookout as a warning to the others. 

You do realize those assholes use that land for cattle grazing, right?

As a descriptive matter, no reputable dictionary in history has included systemic oppression as an element of “racism.”

See, I’m cool with a definition of racism that says “Prejudice + Power = Racism”.

On the other hand, the Caps were looking like a dysfunctional mess about to fire their coach halfway through the season.

Who could have possibly predicted that thrusting a rookie manager into the midst of a bunch of hyper-competitive veterans egos would end poorly?

But when it comes to jogging around on a field for 6 seconds at a time, typically, it’s a non-starter.