I don’t get it either, but I assume he’s waiting until he can pull off what he views as the blockbuster that will take this team to the finals. With the shit Ainge pulls, watch him trade for Curry and sign LeBron as a FA.

Playoffs LOL.

He doesn’t anger me so much as confuse me. I just can’t imagine enjoying doing what he does, the way he does it, and I can’t really imagine a healthy, functioning adult of any sort enjoying it.

I’m totally with you. If some guy next to me catches a ball, I’m going to be happy for him, not pout that my kid didn’t get a freebie he won’t even appreciate. In fact, me expecting you to give my kid the ball would be MORE like Hample than you keeping a ball you caught.

I also have my issues w/ a fair number of the writers/editors. I think I keep coming back because this is the only sports site I know of that covers things from an angle where they get, for example, that NCAA sports are all about old white men getting rich off of young black men, and that, while we all might still…

Nah, I’ve been reading forever, which includes hate-reading the lame puns and jokes. I don’t mind them that much (except when it’s a story about someone dying in a fiery wreck or something, and people just CAN’T WAIT to show how clever they are), but I think they’re overvalued/not very funny. Sometimes I have a…

If that’s the goal, I don’t think it’s working. The ungreyed people who comment the most typically make lame puns. Which, great, whatever. But to find people commenting on the actual substance of an article, I often have to look in the greys.

And if you point out the typos, you often go from gray to banned!

It’s not just that he’s a jerk. It’s that he’s wildly compulsive. Can you imagine even WANTING to amass 9,000 baseballs, let alone spending all sorts of time and money actually doing it? It’s bonkers.

And now my kids are fighting over the ball you gave them. THANKS A LOT, JERKFACE. :)

I mean, that’s a nice thing to do. But I’m the father of a six-year-old and a three-year-old, and if a group of adult fans next to us caught a ball, I would have zero expectation that they give it to my kids.

I mean, that’s a nice thing to do. But I’m the father of a six-year-old and a three-year-old, and if a group of adult fans next to us caught a ball, I would have zero expectation that they give it to my kids.

Me too!

There’s nothing wrong w/ keeping a caught foul that you didn’t push anyone to get. But Hample’s shit is several levels beyond that.

It’s really, really stupid. They initially had the grays to keep out people who were flaming Jezebel comments w/ porn, but if that was the only intent, they should have immediately un-greyed anyone who made successive non-troll comments. Instead, it’s devolved into this weird two-tier commenting class system.

I’m fascinated by this guy. I’m convinced he has some sort of very specific, undiagnosed social disorder.

That wasn’t a foul ball? Do I know even less about baseball than I thought I did?

If he has two seasons in his entire career where he plays 65+ games, I’ll kiss you on the mouth.

God, the Sixers haven’t even made it to “not completely terrible” status yet, and already their fans are bragging like Hinke put together a fucking juggernaut.

Oh my God, proofread your fucking shit.