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Nation Demands Pro-Jonathan Papelbon Takes; Fox Sports Provides ThemThe trouble with a story like yesterday’s Bryce Harper-Jonathan Papelbon fight in the Nationals dugout is that it does not contain much—any—ambiguity. It is unambiguously wonderful, that oh-God-this-is-so-fucking-stupid kind of wonderful, and also Jonathan Papelbon unambiguously is a belligerent too...

These Guys Sucked In The Playoffs. Should That Matter To HOF Voters?Having acquired a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can...

Rob Neyer Just Keeps Digging That HoleLast week, San Francisco radio host Damon Bruce took some time out of his busy day of doing whatever it is he usually does to explain that sports are men's business, that women can't understand sports any more than men can understand the pain of childbirth, and that women, and men who pretend to car...

The Major Leagues Were Never Really As Black As You've Been Told

Today Tyler Kepner’s New York Times story about the dearth of African-American players in the Major Leagues quietly distinguished itself from other articles in that vein, in that it didn’t cite a popular and wrong figure about the peak of black representation in baseball....

Oh gosh, Rob Neyer....

Red Sox Tell Bill James To Stop Defending Joe Paterno

Bill James, ever the contrarian (he even took a go at disputing climate change a few years back, though later softened his stance), has been taking the unpopular stance on Joe Paterno this week. First it was him saying in an online chat that the Freeh Report made it clear that Paterno did enough to ...

Eleven Years Ago, ESPN Gave Rob Neyer A Strange Suspension

Rob Neyer wrote at SB Nation today about a murky imbroglio involving the Elias Sports Bureau, and subsequent discipline, in 2000. "Rob, I have to suspend you for two weeks. Why? Because you criticized ESPN." [SB Nation]...

Rob Neyer Is Leaving ESPN.com, Which Didn't Deserve Him Anyway

Rob Neyer just wrote his last column for ESPN.com, where he had been tucked behind a pay wall*, hidden by whatever fresh pail of water Buster Olney was carrying for the Yankees that day....