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Join Us In Pretending Not To Know What Chris Mortensen's Rat Tweets Are AboutYesterday, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen tweeted out a series of rat emojis. ...

You’re Not Mapping Rats, You’re Mapping GentrificationWhere there are people, there are rats. Or, more accurately: Where there are well-off white people, there are complaints about rats. It’s just that two of the country’s biggest newspapers can’t seem to tell the difference....

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Very Determined Rat At Wrigley FieldWrigley Rat made his late-season case for NL MVP in Wednesday night’s game. Photographer Will Byington was filming as the tenacious, indefatigable little rodent tried repeatedly to make the leap from the fencing above the ivy to berm in center field....

Disease-Carrying Vermin Still A Little Too On-The-Nose As Coincidental Mets-Adjacent Phenomenon 

The Red Sox, healthy, secure, surging toward the best season in franchise history, played with the toy skeleton of a rat in their dugout Friday night, mounting it on the dugout wall and putting seeds in its little mouth. Ha ha! The Mets, helpless, sick, crawling along in ignominy toward the conclusi...

Italian Heritage Group Manages To Get Offended By Minor League "Pizza Rats" Promotion

The Class-A Staten Island Yankees have one of the cleverest and most well-regarded promotions this season, as they occasionally rebrand themselves as the Staten Island Pizza Rats. It celebrates the 2015 viral video of a subway rat who likes pizza, and acknowledges a 2016 fan vote to change the team’...

Oh God, My Car's Been Invaded By Rats

Team Jalopnik rolls into the studio to talk about cleaning your cars....

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is These Four Girls Vs. A Rat

I promise you that you will see no greater display of strategy or teamwork, and no stronger joy of victory, than these girls getting a rat out of their upstairs bathroom:...

Hockey Fans Cannot Stop Themselves From Throwing Thousands of Plastic Rats on the Ice

It’s an incontrovertible rule of nature that if you give a hockey fan something, they will throw it, as far and violently as possible: beer bottles, pretzel chunks, their own teeth, engagement rings, Lindbergh baby, doesn’t matter. Anyway, somebody gave an arena full of hockey fans some rats....