I always thought that the ending (or maybe the whole building-the-airplane plot of the movie) was the Wood/Hanks character’s way of dealing with the fact that the stepfather finally did kill his brother. Read more

Whether Cliff’s remembered version of events is accurate or not is never made clear. Later events affirm that he is indeed a formidable fighter, but his recollection of Lee as a loudmouthed, self-aggrandizing phony seems at odds with Lee’s two subsequent appearances in the movie, outside of Cliff’s memory, as an… Read more

The baseball articles were about the game. Not about the players, not about any sort of pop culture. About the game.

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But salary *floors* are a good thing for labor. They force ownership to spend. The MLB fiasco is exactly because there is no salary floor. Teams have conclusively proven that losing doesn’t drastically affect the profitability of a team, and in fact generally helps it because talent quality increases cost… Read more

O’Shaughnessy’s piece was the worst thing of hers I’ve seen, and I read most of her writing. Thinking that a hard cap would lead to more parity between large- and small-market teams is nuts; if everybody can offer the same amount, players will go where they want to live. I also strongly disagree with the idea that… Read more

One of the most annoying things about Sanders coverage was the running line that he didn’t know what he was doing, he just had fantastic reactions or some such nonsense. Read more

My first live sports memory is the 1988 Holiday Bowl. I was seven. I didn’t know who Barry Sanders was, and, in fact, waited halfway through the second quarter before I asked my dad “who is the orange man?” He went for 5 TDs and 222 yards on 29 attempts. It’s like his fifth best game that year. He really was this cool… Read more

If he had ended up on teh cowboys and Emmitt was on the lions Barry would have had 25k yards rushing and emmitt would have been a night manager at a bowling alley after 3 years in the league. Read more

J-Dubs, dude-bro, it’s almost like the NBA is a business in which players exchange their talent and effort for monetary compensation and thus will secure legally binding agreements to ensure they get the best compensation possible for their very small window of viable service. Read more

addendum: in many sectors (such as mine: software engineering), it’s actually fairly common practice to use multiple offers against one another with the end result being that N companies don’t get to hire a person, while one company does. Read more

These very same reporters actually work and have always worked in an industry in which you can totally tell someone you’re taking a job, then decide not to take the job before you’ve signed anything, and while it may bum that someone out, they have zero legal recourse to somehow force you to take the job. That’s… Read more

I know precisely jack shit about all the various caps and supermaxes and what-have-yous, but Russ seems like a good fit for my Pistons. They have a couple guys with big contracts expiring a couple/few years from now that are tough to move. If they got Russ, they could keep butts in seats for a few years and then… Read more

If I was a team with cap, or a need to sell seats, I’d jump on OKC’s vulnerability right now. Read more

The en dash with a space on either side (“Foodspin - perhaps the most useful of Deadspin sub-blogs - was abandoned by lazy and thoughtless people”) has been acceptable as an alternative to the em dash for a while. Read more

“Man the 4th of July is really amazing. Sure it’s a bit of hokey, flag humping nationalism, but you really appreciate all the amazing things we enjoy as a country. (Reads Burneko’s dash post) Freedom of press was a mistake.”  Read more

As a medical writer, this article is complete garbage. I like—dare I say LOVE—using different kinds of dashes in all my science-related learning material (in fact, 80%–90% of all pieces I write use at least one hyphen, en dash, and em dash). They just need to be used properly.  Read more

There should be a short dash and a long dash Read more

Dashes ranked. Read more

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