It’s not about the individual cities, though—it’s about the collective action problem that if every city decided to stop getting taken for a sucker, the entire ecosystem changes to one in which the economic fundamentals drive these decisions rather than payoffs. If Oklahoma City and everybody else just agreed not to…

Flower turning back into a pumpkin might have something to do with it.

The stupidest part, to me, is that you’re already raising a President’s Trophy banner—which means, by definition, you were the regular season “conference champion.” This is literally just repeating themselves. 

Basically, when you’re 16, you have to decide whether to shoot for the NHL or get an education.

Obvious joke is obvious (and wrong--Ghost spent three years at Union college before going pro)

The “kick in the nuts” isn’t really about getting traded to Columbus specifically, so much as it’s about getting traded at all right after signing a two year extension. Dude’s had complete control over where he plays up to that point, and to get the rug so thoroughly pulled out from under you has got to leave a bad…

For this season, maybe, but Panarin’s next contract is going to be way too rich for Chicago’s cap, while Saad is locked in at that $6M figure for awhile.

Or, if you don’t know any of your coworkers well enough to even remember what teams they root for, just talk shit whenever someone brings up baseball in your fantasy football group chat.

An under-discussed aspect of Panarin’s situation is that unlike most players, who have little to no control over where to start their career, Panarin went undrafted and thus got to choose to start his career in Chicago. Getting traded to Columbus right after signing an extension must have been a real kick in the nuts. 

This game is going to take what, 12 hours to finish?

Wins are every bit as useless as ERA, because neither one is directly under the pitcher’s control. 

The idea that Deadspin specifically, and the former Gawker empire generally, isn’t still premised on casual cruelty is ludicrous on its face. The targets may have changed, but the mean spirit and bad faith remain the same.

Right now, at the very least, he’s operating in complete good faith, albeit in a manner that teams are likely to perceive as malcontented. Faking/exaggerating injuries in order to game the system would make him look either (A) fragile, if teams buy it, or (B) dishonest, if team don’t. Either of those perceptions is…

Terrible idea, all around. Even if he manages to make it to free agency, the transparent stunt of relying on the typical wear-and-tear to sit out games would—rightly or wrongly—nuke his value once he gets there.  

All those weirdo conservative elites decided, as adults with presumably existing baseball allegiances, chose to get obsessed about the Nats because they’re old white people who yearn for a time when a baseball team was the defining cultural institution of a major American city.

How many people on Trump’s short list do you think will have attempted rape allegations made against them, though?

Is he being blackballed at this point, though? Now that he’s got that Nike deal, wouldn’t it make more sense for him to focus his freed-up time strictly on activism?

It’s the flip side of the same coin by which the DNC is determined to make this guy not happen.

the fact that this poor woman and her family had to leave their home because they are receiving death threats, and of fucking course I can’t blame her for not playing their rigged, shitty game.

Hey, if I managed to somehow win a trophy from a sport I don’t even play, I’d probably party pretty hard too.