Hey I'm 20-something with a half-understood undergraduate-level familiarity with academic race theory, too. Who do I have to blow to get twitter followers and an interview with a print media outlet? And if you know who it is, can you please give me his phone number?

I thought it was a joke about beer and throwing up.

Men's Rights Activists should be at least a 4-seed.

Houston gets nuked in Independence Day in a vain attempt at stopping the aliens.

Not nearly as bad as any person defending Cleveland who was unfortunate enough to have ever been there.

I'm very disappointed to learn that "Imagine Dragons" isn't an otherkin band that has made it big.

Alright, awesome. Don't think that the veracity of the woman's blind speculation over her alleged would-be kidnapper/sex-trafficker/whatever will be determined by semantics, but it's nice to have input.

Well they got her to submit quite a bit of paperwork. I'd bet that included in that is stuff like her social security number, dl#, work history, and plenty of other shit that can be used for identity theft.

Cool. What's your point?

Lucie Blackman wasn't the victim of human trafficking. She was the victim of a single crazed serial-rapist and murderer who preyed on foreign women in Japan. Blackman was working freely at the time of her death, and she had come to Japan legally and freely. The only similarity between that and trafficking is that both…

Also, you know, the article doesn't actually give any evidence that she was even going to be kidnapped. It seems far likelier to me that she was going to have her identity stolen or used by a shitty production company as free labor. Those things suck, but they're not exactly being thrown into a sinking fishing trawler…

Jillian Mourning, founder of the non-profit and VH1 Do Something Award-nominated organization, All We Want is Love, took some time between speaking at colleges and galas about human trafficking to advise me that it is really common for men to pose as talent/modeling agents in order to traffic women. So many of the…

Well good thing you're not in Canada otherwise that whole "$cientology" thing might be deemed hate speech.

>He was clearly above average for his career, but you wanted me to look at his WAR, and it doesn't support the argument that he was a truly "great" player.

It's not especially surprising that, after his age 35 season, Craig Biggio was never able to come close to his past greatness. Very, very few players are able to stay in the "above-average WAR" realm once they're in their mid-30s. There's a reason why there are things baseball people call "old player skills" — hitting…

Yeah that erased the entirety of the 1990s where he established himself as one of the greatest second-basemen of all time.

"Opening it up to more people makes it more likely we will get the WRONG result."

More likely than burst blood vessels: People would just stop paying attention to the HoF. The Hall's "legitimacy" doesn't come from God or nature or the legal power to determine who is and is not officially "great." It comes from some rough agreement with fans' sensibilities. It enshrines the people who they think…

Deadspin and its readers took the vote more seriously than many of the regular voters. the only crime Deadspin committed was when they published that total mail-in piece from Rob Neyer on Biggio and Bagwell (get a chance to make the case for possibly the greatest right side of the infield ever and you jam out a few…

Fangraphs got admitted to the BBWAA a few years back. They have to toe the line now.