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What If All Baseball Players Were Fat?
Upon several viewings of Bartolo Colon's hilarious plate appearances, the Deadspin staff discussed what baseball would be like if every player looked like the husky Mets hurler. Or, really, just fat. So here's some recent MLB highlights where we made all the baseball players fat. Video's above, GIFs...
The Long History Of Pitchers Getting Caught Red-Handed
Yesterday Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was suspended for 10 games for his use of pine tar during Wednesday's game against the Red Sox. The New York Times has put together a nice collection of photographs of pitchers getting caught in the act. Above, knuckleballer Joe Niekro was found with a nail f...
How Difficult Is It To Qualify For The Boston Marathon?
We've spent the better part of this week focusing on elites, but now we turn back to the heart of the Boston Marathon: the qualifiers....
Bib Forgers Are Dumb Twentysomethings Raising Money For Charity
Bastards with hearts of gold are still bastards, and the perpetrators of Bibgate 2014, if not innocent, are at least trying to justify themselves out of a bad situation....
Hey, It's 15 Years (And A Day) Since Fernando Tatis Hit Two Grand Slams In An Inning
On April 23, 1999, Fernando Tatis set an MLB record that's as unlikely as it is pointless, hitting two grand slams in a single inning. It is, I feel confident saying, unlikely to ever be broken....
If This Is Wil Nieves's Tinder Profile, He Has A Funny Pickup Method
Via Zoo With Roy, someone spotted a Tinder user on Tuesday night using the photo of Phillies backup catcher Wil Nieves—and his daughter....
Do You Know These Runners? Because They're Probably Bastards.
Everyone wanted to be in the Boston Marathon this year, and the race actually expanded its field by more than a third, to 36,000, to accommodate everybody. But it still sold out, and then there's that pesky detail of having to pay. So four runners decided they'd find alternative means of entry, clai...
Can You Predict If Your Kid Will Throw Left-Handed?
I'm at that age where my buddies from college are starting to sign their kids up for Little League. They'll differ in degree and in approach to helicopter coaching and buying up extravagant, miniaturized baseball equipment, but there's one thing they'll all agree on: They hope their kid's a lefty. ...
Original LeBron Hater Sick Of All The Bandwagon Haters
This right here is a brilliant piece of satire. Comedian Matt Lieb adopts the character of someone who has been hating LeBron James way before you were hating LeBron James, and in the process captures everything that is annoying about scolding fans who never shut up about bandwagoners. There's also...
Pine Tar Should Be Fully Legal, And Baseball Is Still Fucking Insane
As you might know, Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda got booted from a game last night for rocking a swatch of pine tar on the back of his neck, in full view of everyone. The weird thing is that it wasn't the fact that Pineda used pine tar that got everyone pissy, but the fact that he did it so blatan...
Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown By A Balloon And A Runner
Ed. Note: Due to the breakout success of i09's story on a balloon in a minivan, Nick Denton has asked each Gawker subdomain to blow its readership's mind with a balloon-related post. This is Fittish's version....
Which MLB Teams Does Your Town Root For? NYT Interactive Has Answers
Last month, when we showed you the most accurate map of MLB fandom, it was the most accurate in that it was based on the most accurate data. In the time since, the New York Times has gotten its hands on that data and made this interactive, which is awesome. ...
Meb's Yankees-Red Sox First Pitch Not Total Disaster
It can be tough for distance runners to use their emaciated upper bodies for most things other than ballast, but Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi's first pitch at the Yankees-Red Sox game last night wasn't a total disaster. A little outside, sure, but just watch how the bottom drops out. ...
How Skechers Beat Nike In The Boston Marathon
When Meb Keflezighi won the Boston Marathon, he broke the tape wearing Skechers. Skechers, the maker of shoes that tone Joe Montana's ass. The hell?...
Eight Reasons Never To Go On Spring Break With Children
Just let go. That was the slogan of the hotel we were staying at for Spring Break, and it was a solid slogan. After all, this was a family resort, and at family resorts, parents often need to be reminded to ease up, take the sticks out of their asses, and TRY to enjoy themselves, if only to then f...
Ten Sports We Want To See In A Mall
Tonight the Drake Relays will stage the fifth annual Mall Vault, which features the nation's best pole vaulters pole vaulting in a mall. Here are ten other sporting events that we want to see contested in a mall:...
Phil Coke Serves Up A Home Run And A Fantastic Quote
The Tigers bullpen has not been good. So after Phil Coke came on in the ninth with a five-run lead and gave up a home run to Adam Dunn to cut the lead to two, there was little to do but laugh about the fateful pitch that tailed back over the plate....
Why Soccer Tactics Matter: A Player Explains
Everyone in soccer is constantly talking about tactics. In recent years, we've gushed over the development of conservative 11-men-behind-the-ball approaches, the growth of tiki-taka and passenaccio, the rise of the mythical 4-2-3-1, and the spread of gegenpressing and counterattacking. I love this s...
The Athlete Advocate
Ivan Solotaroff writes about Ramogi Huga over at SB Nation Longform:...