Exceptional talent and a career end-to-end class act. Mark Davis doesn’t fucking deserve him, and it’s a telling thing that he chose to spend the final home moment of his first ballot HoF career yelling out the name of his adopted home so the fans can call back one more time.

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU?

I look forward to hearing tales of your compassionate response the next time a huge, bloody, extremely intoxicated guy shows up and demands to be let into your business at 2 AM.

Preach, brother, preach.

How many public figures from the world of sports do you know who can prompt this kind of discussion? If Curt fucking Schilling can attract attention and debate with his inane Twitter bullshit, why not Kareem?

Goddamn, why don’t people talk about Kareem Abdul Jabbar the scholar more? The man is astonishingly well-read and conversant in a ridiculous number of things, and has a number of academic publications. Why haven’t we drafted this guy as one of our leaders in public discourse, I do not know.

SHUT UP BEFORE BETTMAN HEARS YOU.

No, she circled the wagons. And also lost four consecutive Super Bowls. Am I doing this right?

...sigh.

Nah. Give it to a kid. It’s a thing you’ll hang on to for awhile, until you forget you have it and then accidentally toss it when you move. For the right kid, that’ll be the coolest thing he owns for years, and he’ll always remember the time he got a foul ball. That’s how you make a fan for life.

Nope. The New Jersey Devils were the Colorado Rockies in the early 80s.

Thank you for providing a reason for me to tell the story of the most insane fucking thing I have ever had to do working security for NHL games.

He is. Although this virulent support for layoffs is new.

This. Very much this.

Somebody doesn’t remember the NES.

This is true. I am, uh, very familiar with Pegula Brand codes of conduct and security policies. I realize it’s theoretically possible, but 99% of the time people aren’t getting thrown out for cheering too loudly, they’re getting thrown out because they’re drunk as fuck.

Right, because weakass NFL stadium security is always throwing people out for cheering. Come on.

Jesus, this is awful. We had this happen to a junior on our varsity team when I was playing JV and it just ruined all of us. He didn’t die, but he went into a coma that he never came out of. It’s been more than fifteen years and I can still remember it vividly, whether I want to our not. Thoughts are with the kids on…

I could literally watch that all day. So damn good. Really nice kid, too!

Basically true, but this guy is less politically aspirational, if only because Andy Cuomo is less of a pushover than third term George Pataki, and he’ll stay where he is until he gets a clear shot at the Democratic nod for President or Chuck Schumer retires.