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Yankees Further Endear Themselves To Boston By Crossing Hotel Workers' Picket Line

Marriott hotel workers are striking in Boston, San Francisco, and San Jose this week. Unite Here Local 26, the union representing the striking hotel workers in Boston, has organized its members around the slogan One Job Should Be Enough, and after months of negotiating with Marriott, last month 96 p...

by Chris Thompson|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

Jon Gray's Strange Season Looks To Have Reached A Depressing End

Back in April of 2017, Rockies pitcher Jon Gray was the team’s Opening Day starter, and seemed destined to become the franchise’s future ace. Today, it was announced that he has been left off the Rockies’ NLDS roster....

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

The Hater's Guide To The MLB Playoffs

The baseball season gets much stranger as it narrows down in October, which is not a novel observation but is one that is already proving itself out. Before we even recorded this week’s Deadcast, a Wild Card game had been decided in the dead of night on a hit by a backup catcher who was one of the ...

by David Roth|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

This Is Supremely Fucked Up, Don't Do This

Here we have a Yankees fan, excited because the baseball team he roots for is winning, throwing the majority of his beer onto another person for the apparently sole reason that the other person is a fan of the other baseball team. Really fucked up!...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

Beefy Baseball Boy Luke Voit Is The Yankees' Not-So-Secret Weapon

Luke Voit is a meaty midwestern lad who can’t or won’t button up his jersey all the way and whose grandmother still sends him $25 for every home run he hits, and there have been a lot of $25 checks from Nana in the last couple of months....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

Athletics' Feel-Good Season Smashed Up And Ruined By Vile Yankees

The Athletics had a fascinating regular season, and were a ton of fun to follow, and it would’ve been neat to watch a genuine underdog that got to this point in such a weird and surprising way go up against the powerhouse Red Sox in the ALDS. Alas, the dream died Wednesday when the Yankees smashed u...

by Chris Thompson|

|Thu Oct 04 2018

Kyle Freeland Is A New Kind Of Rockies Pitcher

By the time last night’s interminable NL wild card game was over, your memories of the contributions made by Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland, a second-year player throwing on three days rest, may have understandably faded. A quick refresher: 6.2 innings, four hits, one walk, six strikeouts, a...

by Tom Ley|

|Wed Oct 03 2018

A 2018–19 NHL Season Preview Of Every Team, From Best To Islanders

Hell yeah, hockey is back! After suffering through three months of sports that do not involve ice, and night after night of 90-degree temperatures with no A/C (though that one might just be me), the most beautiful and fun game in the world has returned to save you from five-hour ALDS games and lopsi...

by Lauren Theisen|

|Wed Oct 03 2018

The A's Are Full-On Bullpenning, So Let's Get Weird

The Athletics’ full plan for tonight’s AL wild card game was revealed not when Bob Melvin named reliever Liam Hendriks the starter—though Hendriks prefers the term “opener”—but when Mike Fiers, one of two true starters, was left off the roster for this game. That leaves only Edwin Jackson, and he’s ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Oct 03 2018

Brave Rock Men Thwart Pesky Bear Children In NL Wild Card Slog

Some might remember Tuesday’s NL Wild Card game as classic, cagey postseason baseball. Others may describe it as a painfully slow and annoyingly long slog that lost all of its charm the very moment the ninth inning ended without one team ahead of the other. The luckiest among us will remember it as ...

by Chris Thompson|

|Wed Oct 03 2018

Javier Baez And Nolan Arenado Share Warm Hug During Live Baseball Play

The Cubs and Rockies refuse to settle this goddamn National League Wild Card game, which is now in the 13th inning. The Cubs had a good chance to end it in the bottom of the 11th, after Javy Baez advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and the Rock men elected to intentionally walk Daniel Murphy with...

by Chris Thompson|

|Wed Oct 03 2018

All You Need Is Spite: A Very Emotional NHL Season Preview

Boys and girls and babes, we all learned so much during the 2017–2018 NHL season. For example, I learned that chaos rules the universe, sports predictions are horoscopes but less accurate, and hockey games are won by pure, defiant, you-said-I-couldn’t-do-it spite and very little else....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Oct 01 2018

Luka Modrić Wins FIFA's Dumb Little "The Best" Award

Individual awards in soccer are inherently silly and effectively meaningless. FIFA’s premier individual award has been rendered even sillier and less meaningful recently after soccer mag France Football regained ownership of the actually prestigious Ballon d’Or, causing FIFA to invent their own “The...

by Billy Haisley|

|Mon Sep 24 2018

We Think We Know Who Will Win The Super Bowl

It’s fine to know nothing about football. It’s also fine to know everything about football. What I know about football is: nothing....

by Clover Hope|

|Wed Sep 12 2018