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  • I Punched My Boss in the Face

    At first the feeling was euphoric. After years of taking crap from a bunch of losers because they were my bosses, I thought I had no other choice. This time I felt like I had finally stood up for myself in a meaningful way. But even before my knuckles healed up I began to think otherwise. Full story

    2013 Jan 5 Jarrod Shanahan Stuff
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  • Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game

    In a nation that looks to professional sports for everything that it is missing—heroism, greatness, collective triumph—the spate of labor disputes that continue to rock pro leagues offers some sobering lessons. Full story

    2012 Oct 20 Jarrod Shanahan Sports
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  • The Mercy Rule

    Picking at Scabs

    The scab refs look, in short, like scabs—unqualified people hired to do a job they don't really know how to do at the behest of a management group which doesn't especially value that job, or at least less so than they value the chump change saved by not paying those who actually… Full story

    2012 Sep 25 David Roth Sports
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  • Wide World of Balls

    Scabbarhea

    Replacement referees continue lousing everything up, a baseball dude recuses himself from the batting title, no NHL, and Detlef Schrempf likes country music. Full story

    2012 Sep 24 Lou Doggs Sports
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