Jeff Passan Column About Goose Gossage Blows Hot, Cold

A 98 miles-per-hour high and inside lede.

On Friday, Yahoo Sports baseball writer Jeff Passan led off his column with the following paragraph:

Goose Gossage, a giant bag of gas that somehow figured out how to grow a mustache, f-bombed his way through the landscape of modern baseball Thursday. In an interview with ESPN, he managed to deride the single best moment of the 2015 season, tie the actions of one man to the shame of an entire ethnicity, advocate for concussions, praise pitches intended to injure opponents, yearn for the days that left pitchers’ arms in shambles because of overuse and disparage people far smarter than he’ll ever be.

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