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Talking To Mark Gubicza About Pandemic Mullets, ’80s Metal, And Mike Trout
One of the weirdest complaints about life under quarantine is not being able to cut your hair. This actually came up in a Deadspin staff meeting: If there was one business you could bring back safely, what would it be?...
Manny Being Manny, Sitting Around During A Pandemic, Watching Taiwanese Baseball And Saying, 'I Can Hit These Guys'
Can Manny Ramirez really still play?...
MLB Will Surely See A Replay Of Cheating After Changing Nothing
There’s getting what you want, even when it’s pretty sordid, and then there’s shoveling what you don’t want out the window before anyone can notice....
Steve Dalkowski, Inspiration for Nuke LaLoosh of ‘Bull Durham,’ Dead At 80 Due to COVID-19
Steve Dalkowski, a towering figure in minor-league lore whose legendary arm strength was matched only by his lack of command, died earlier this week, his family announced. He was 80....
Red Sox Owner's Paper Says Cheating Really Didn't Help ... Uh, OK
The Red Sox got away with cheating their way to a World Series victory in 2018, as Major League Baseball announced this week that Boston’s only sanctions for illegal sign-stealing methods would be a two-year suspension for a video replay system operator and the loss of a second-round draft pick....
MLB Sends Clear Message: Go Ahead, Cheat Your Ass Off
Major League Baseball finally concluded its investigation into the 2018 Boston Red Sox sign-stealing their way to a world championship, and Rob Manfred brought down the hammer on one of baseball’s marquee franchises....
MLB Would Be Making Texas-sized Screw Up With Latest Plan To Return
A little more than a month into life in the vortex of coronavirus, we all have some new routines. For some of us, it’s putting on a mask to go to the store. For others, it’s an extra dog walk, just to get a few more minutes of fresh air in the day....
MLB 'Dream Bracket' Would Be Better If Teams Were Set Up By Country, State. Here's How It Could Work
How About A World Baseball Classic-Style Sim?...
Reliving My Baseball-Nerd Youth Through MLB’s 'Dream Bracket'
MLB’s ‘Dream Bracket,’ a tournament of every franchise’s best players, brings me back to the days of running computer baseball leagues on SSI, “Earl Weaver Baseball” and “Tony La Russa Baseball.” ...
Way Back When, Bob Feller Was A Badass And Threw A No-No On Opening Day
Eighty years ago today, Bob Feller accomplished a feat that has never been duplicated. He threw a no-hitter on opening day....
Jackie Robinson Has Never Been More Important Than He Is Right Now
A year before he made his Negro League debut, on July 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson refused to sit in the back of a bus, prompting his discharge from the Army. It was 11 years before Rosa Parks stood up against injustice in Alabama. Robinson was ahead of his time and exuded courage that, in Martin Luther...
Hank Steinbrenner, 63, Was Truly The Boss' Son
There is an alternate universe where Hank Steinbrenner — who died on Tuesday at the age of 63 after battling liver problems — and not his brother Hal, assumed control of the Yankees as their father George’s health declined in the years before The Boss’ death in 2010....
Parallel Lives: Opening Topps Packs From 1990 and 2020 Side by Side
While searching the aisles at Rite Aid recently for more rubbing alcohol and toilet paper, I came to one of the displays at the end of the aisle that gets stocked with Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, and baseball cards. To my joy, the 2020 Topps packs had arrived, so instead of the out-of-stock items...
MLB Following South Korea Back to the Diamond Won't Make President Trump Look Like Less of an Ass
There’s going to be professional baseball soon, which is great news for sports fans everywhere....
RIP Al Kaline. You Were The Greatest Player Time Forgot
When news broke that Al Kaline died Monday at 85, reaction among the Deadspin staff was split between two wildly different reactions....
With No Games To Watch, SportsNet LA Punks Dodger Fans By Finally Reaching Deal With DirecTV & AT&T U-verse
Six years after it launched as Time Warner Cable Sportsnet, and four years since it changed its name to Spectrum SportsNet LA, the channel that broadcasts Dodgers games is finally available to DirecTV and AT&T U-verse customers, just in time for fans to be able to… not watch the Dodgers....
The Retro Video Game Quarantine Rolls On. Next Up to Bat? NES R.B.I. Baseball
The Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club so far has featured Ice Hockey and 10-Yard Fight, both resulting in losses to a computer with varying degrees of enjoyment along the way. Will your humble, terrible-at-video-games correspondent have any better luck with RBI Baseball?...
There Is No God If The Red Sox Get Rewarded For Dumping Mookie Betts
Thanks to an agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association on coronavirus-related adjustments, Mookie Betts will be a free agent next winter, regardless of whether there is a 2020 baseball season....
MLB's Union and Its Owners Are Teaming Up To Screw Amateur Players
There are more hurdles than just scheduling for both Major League Baseball and its labor union to overcome when trying to figure out how to handle a shortened or possibly canceled season. One of the major obstacles was figuring out service time, so that players would have an accurate idea as to how ...
Desus Nice, Meet Josh Lewin
On this week’s episode of “Bodega Boys,” Desus Nice and The Kid Mero deftly summed up the big problem with trying to get your sports-fix by watching the “classic” games that TV networks are showing during the coronavirus pandemic....