Well, SRS isn’t predictive of anything. It can’t tell you what that team will look like six weeks from now, only what it looks like through its last game. So a team that is struggling and is both too old and too young and is missing its best player may not hold the same SRS in April that it has today. Correct? If San…

Except Miami missed the playoffs last year with the fifth-best SRS in the East, and the Pacers, and Hawks made it with the 9th and 10th SRS numbers in that conference. And Utah missed the playoffs two years ago with the fifth-best SRS in the West. And the Nets made it the year before that with the eleventh-best…

No, that’s all perfectly reasonable. I do think Denver, Portland, and the Jazz are playing much better than the Spurs at this moment (DEN: 9 of 13; POR: 10 of 15; UTA: 11 straight), and they definitely have more margin for error in terms of injuries than the Spurs do. Denver and Portland are really deep. Utah, we’ll…

The hero we need.

Everything ends, man. Believe me, I know all about the Spurs’ run and Pop’s winning percentage being unrivaled over 20 years by any franchise in basketball and second only to the Showtime Lakers for any dynasty, but it’s asking a lot for that roster to finish over .500 the rest of the way.

I wouldn’t necessarily believe they’re playoff bound without him. They’re four games up in the loss column on 10th place Utah, don’t score much, and have lost nine of 15. Getting Rudy Gay back will help, but they have already played something like 18 starting lineups this year. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me at all…

This is why we shouldn’t have hockey in Mississippi.

Wait...Donald Trump is our president? How the fuck did that happen?

This may not have been the best choice for the victory song, particularly in Asia...

Do you think Keith Olbermann wrote his own scripts when he was back on ESPN a couple years ago?

I hope the reader found the response:

Abu Dhabi needs to get with it and put in some bike-only lanes.

Nice body shaming, man...

No matter what, Bill’s worst crime will always be pushing Erik Watts.

I wonder if this was part of HHH’s increased backstage role, along with holding the reins on 205 Live now and negotiating Ronda’s contract instead of Vince. If so, it was well-done. I even liked the backstage promos, which didn’t feel as mechanical as they usually are and were obviously shorter because they were…

+1 man of means

I don’t blame ‘em. It was a shit year for TV, anyway.

After reading all that, I’m still not sure if it constitutes a catch.

Not-so-fun-fact: The 1815 eruption of Tambora (on the complete opposite side of Indonesia) gave us the Year Without a Summer.

I think there’s only evidence for the one, but she was Jefferson’s late wife’s half-sister (yep, Martha Jefferson’s father was Sally’s father), so...bonus points there?