Scrolled down looking for this, and was about to write it myself. The combination of doing everything he read about/heard impresses women at once is what’s so off-putting about it all. You can hear the checkboxes being checked on his inner checklist.
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“His infatuation with football, in fact, had begun to wane five years earlier when Snyder had knocked on his hotel room door in Miami, sun not yet peeking through the blinds, and collapsed into the running back’s arms, muttering through sobs that the teammate Portis most revered, Sean Taylor, had succumbed to…
Yep, worth the click. That’s a good mutant.
That’s a great question. Samer’s main point is...that Barstool didn’t delete it fast enough? That Barstool messed up because they forgot to make their sexism more tolerable with keyfabe asides as they usually do? Meh. Deadspin could do better by digging into Barstool’s past sexist blunders, but then Barstool could…
I’ve wondered that myself. But I would argue there are three good historical excuses:
My argument is merely that the Celtics were still a strong contender, not that they were for sure better than the Heat by 2012. In the 2012 Finals, the Heat blew out the Thunder, and I’m sure the Celtics thought they could have done the same if they had gotten to the Finals.
The score is right there, in clear view, right down the middle.
I’m a Cavs fan and dislike Boston. But they had lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to Miami the year before Ray left. The series went 7 games. I don’t understand how this doesn’t make Boston a title contender. And he took a big discount to go to Miami as well.
William was at Gizmodo for a few months, it’s not even remotely comparable.
I’m honestly surprised there aren’t more responses like yours. Tom’s leaving out a lot of context and details. Boston was still a championship contender, it was only 5 years, Miami was a true Boston rival, etc.
I went to the Carter Presidential Library, and was impressed by the sheer number of laws and treaties that he tried. Sure, not all of them were great, but he at least tried to be novel and deserves some credit for that.
Ha! ok ok, the Boeheim argument got me.
I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate and suggest that Dwight is a good reason for the One-and-Done rule. A year with a decent college coach might have allowed him to be a bit more emotionally mature before entering the league. Yes, he was physically mature for the league, but not necessarily emotionally mature.
Possibly pedantic question: Most of the coverage of Mixon and Brantley has combined their crimes with players who have committed domestic violence against wife/lover. Is that fair? Assault on a stranger isn’t the same as domestic violence, after all.
Agreed. Yahoo was hardly a gold mine before she stepped in. I don’t see the same complaints about IBM, Microsoft, etc. being stagnant for the last decade or so, ahem, recent rallies aside.
They miss having more variety in their big man rotation. I know, if you watch the 2016 Finals, you wonder why Mozgov mattered. But he was important, psychologically and practically.
I mean, half of gossip column articles are “Look at these two celebrities having dinner together! It means something!”
For what it’s worth, this situation has somewhat happened at least twice in history: