Good factoid on Don Yee. To follow up, why didn’t Jimmy drop Don Yee? He had to know some kind of conflict of interest would occur. And he had to know he would lose to Brady if Yee had to choose. I don’t get it, help.

Thanks, some good thoughts and I appreciate the ideas. I do want to make sure I’m seeing this from the right perspective.

Also sorry, that last question is a bit too close-ended. I should say, to what extent do you believe that 4th category exists or not in general, and here specifically.

Fair, I’m a child of the 80's myself and don’t want to look back at a lot of the content from that time with today’s eyes. It doesn’t hold up. Listening to standup comedy from then is particularly awkward.

No, it’s not. But here’s a question: when did you become aware that blackface was wrong? Here in the US, I feel that it’s only been the last 10 years or so. Read, for example, this 2008 article on the DailyKos about blackface on SNL about the Obamas. The author won’t quite call it racist then. So there’s not this long…

I wonder who has had more “almost” columns written about him, Jeff Green or Michael Beasley.

^Some interesting thoughts, thanks.

I think it’s a bit complicated because the American minstrel shows and such are what makes blackface such a no-no. It’s more contextual and American-specific. I feel like blackface is in a different category from, say, bananas tossed at black players or hanging ropes, which are clearly demeaning no matter where you’re…

Nope. AJ paid for sources, mistreated women (the infamous rape tape posting), doubled down on his biased hiring practices when challenged by Jemele Hill, and bragged about his favoritism from the beginning. Spare me the revisionism. He was able to excuse it back when the web was younger and the blog/journo lines were…

I share some of those concerns. There’s a difference between a teen sex offender and an adult, from the research I’ve seen. You can’t casually lump in this guy with older managerial monsters like Weinstein: younger offenders are more redeemable.

He’s reaching out to both the Christian customer segment and sex customer segment at the same time (XianCallGirl), have to applaud his commitment to his job.

Yes, my bad, had my Bogdanovics mixed up heh.

This team looked awful last year, with no promise for the future. I agree with you, Chris, there was an argument that Oladipo might be better. But I’m still stunned at the Pacers’ luck. From Kings cast-offs (Collison) to lightly-hyped European add-ons (He’s not even the best Bogdanovic to debut this year!) to…

From the essay:

Yes, I stand corrected, NHL is better than MLB in that respect. Also as someone said further down, MLB and NHL have robust minor league systems, NBA doesn’t.

Heh, yes, and then when those kids use the advisors recommended to them by shoe companies/agents, they get ripped off. But it’s more convenient to float the narrative of the kid as irresponsible, rather than that the kid was exploited.

Why not use a modified version of the baseball model?

Edit: nm

It’s easy to confuse knowing more about something with understanding it (cue college students grimacing in anticipation of Finals), so I’m unexpectedly team Lebron as well.

Oh? What do you mean, he lied about sleeping with those women or something else?