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Our Field Trip To "Quite Frankly"
We finished up with the site early yesterday not because we're lazy, but because we consider Deadspin a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. (Oh, uh, except for weekends.) We wrapped up our Monday posts in record time, because we had to hustle downtown, because we had the hottest ticket in town: ...
Joe Torre, Masochist
One of our favorite games as a kid — and still, actually — was "Rock And A Hard Place." You remember the game: It involved making someone choose between two equally undesirable options. Would you rather kiss a donkey on the butt or look at a naked picture of your mom? You know, that sort of thing....
Don't Forget About The White Sox
In the wake of last night's lunacy, it's key to keep in mind the great story that is the Chicago White Sox who, after all, have already downloaded their genital pill ticket to this dance. (We were going for a Spam joke there, but we're not sure it worked.) No matter what happens in the NLCS, the W...
Begging For Red Sox-Yankees Absolution
No matter who ends up winning the Cardinals-Astros series, it's still a disappointment to FOX executives, who, as always, were not-so-secretly rooting for the Red Sox or Yankees to make the World Series. (Because there are no baseball fans outside of those two cities, you see.)...
Much Respeck For TNT
We have to give the mad propers to TNT, which is promoting its upcoming NBA television schedule by giving their promos to the great Ali G. The hysterical faux hip-hopper interviews Lakers "star" Kobe Bryant and Esquire's Chuck Klosterman subject Steve Nash in commercials that YAYSports! helpfully ...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bill Plaschke
We have seen Bill Plaschke's desk. Well, to be more precise, we haven''t actually seen the surface of the desk — just the refuse piled on top. We doubt that anyone working at the Los Angeles Times since the early 1990s has seen what's underneath. To best describe it, think Dennis Nedry's work stat...
The Morning After
This is exactly what we did last night, when David Eckstein had two strikes on him in the ninth inning against Brad Lidge: We shut off the television. Watching your team make the last out to end a season — particularly one that's on the road after an immensely frustrating series, particularly when...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while testing your bear-proof suit ... • NLCS, Game 5: Admit it, you turned the game off long Pujols homered. Unless you're an Astros fan. In which case ... sorry. Ouch. • MNF: Colts go 6-0 after 45-28 win over Rams, which we mention because nobody really watches Monday Nigh Football...
Will Cards Return Home To See Busch Off?
Well, tonight's the night when we'll discover if Busch Stadium, the home of the Cardinals since our father was 16 years old (and the place we spent pretty much every other summer Sunday afternoon until we were that age), will be torn down without Cardinals fans truly being able to say goodbye. Aft...
More Fun With Webshots And Groupies
The On The DL girls have posted some more Webshots photos of baseball players and their "friends", and though the celebrity quotient is decreased a bit — we get the pictured Alex Rios confused with about half the middle infielders in baseball, though we're curious what happened right after this pi...
NFL Roundup: Some Pretty Skunk Weed
• Ricky Williams had six more yards yesterday than he's had droning "60 Minutes" profiles about him in the last year. So you know. Fortunately, that eight years is still about 50 less than the interviews Esquire writer Chris Jones has given about smoking pot with Williams. Maybe Ricky will catch u...
Playoff Roundup: Sad Birds
Thoughts on a weekend of baseball that can only be described as "grueling:" • Now, we're Cardinals fans, we've made that clear, so grain of salt, all that. But the way that game ended yesterday was just flat-out mean. Whatever your thoughts on the umpires — we tend to cut them slack, because they ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while boozing it up with floozies on Lake Minnetonka ... • Once every 46 years, whether you're ready for them or not — White Sox in World Series after taming Angels. • Astros, up 3-1 on Cardinals, poised for first-ever World Series, but it's still not as exciting as that time the Bad...
Just To Be Safe ...
Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox, American League champions. They deserve all the credit one can muster....
Blogdom's Best: Houston Astros
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Angels Fans Frothing At The Mouth For Eddings
(Caution: Not actual poll. Attempts to vote will prove ultimately frustrating.)...
Todd Zeile, 21st Century Man
Now, we're not saying anything about those lingering rumors about former Mets manager Bobby Valentine helping him deal with some "issues" involving a popular veteran journeyman player who Bill Simmons might call being a "bi-curious guy," or his recent career as a producer of terrible teen movies o...
Sanders Gets To The Ball, Then Explodes
Thoughts, Perceptions and Gripes from a series-tying 4-1 Astros victory over the Cardinals in the NLCS last night:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dusting the top of the Chrysler Building (damn court-ordered community service) ... • NLCS, Game 2: Oswalt, Astros even series with Cards at 1-all — but you knew that, because it was the only game on last night. • NHL: Rangers end losing streak, led by Swedish rookie (there's a...