If you want to argue that this isn’t the move, I think an interesting case would be that there’s only one ball and so many shots to go around. Barnes only attempted about 10 shots a game, so from where are KD’s shots going to come? Either he takes fewer attempts than expected - hurting his marginal value as a scorer…

But, that wouldn’t necessarily mean that he’s actually better - just that he produces more. If he had to take six times as many shots to do it, he’d basically be the same guy, but with six times the opportunities. ...A more accurate way of looking at it would be to see how much better he is than the average NBA and…

Because you can buy one for $8 at the store.

This a good time to re-post this

But, whose corners were they on?

Question: Instead of spending the money on whatever lucky crop of players happen to be free agents, can teams use that money to restructure the deals of players already on their roster? ...I’m thinking along the lines of how baseball teams buy out the last few years of a players pre-FA years and extend him. If so, it…

Then, they proceed to call soccer “Un-American,” despite soccer having a true free market economic structure, no redistribution of wealth or talent (no draft), and the Horatio Alger style American Dream meritocracy of promotion and relegation.

He also misses another crucial point. Let’s say Conley did get 6x better overnight - then he’d be “worth” a lot more than 6x what he was before. A roster is basically a closed system and the goal is to get more wins above replacement. Each marginal win that a player can contribute is worth more than the one before it,…

Yes. That’s him. I used to work with him. He counts all those BP balls and stuff. It’s highly pathetic. ...Pretty much everybody I know who has ever met him would like to body slam him.

Interesting.

He should have just gone with “My health is none of your fucking business.” Which would at least be true.

It only bothers me in the sense that when I hear anything about the show (seldom), I forget it’s All Takes Matter that is being spoken about. Even in this article, when I saw the tweets with the data for “SFY,” I was confused for a sec - like, what’s this? I was looking for “ATM.”

But, that’s not what you said.

That episode included Tori in it, and therefore doesn’t actually exist.

Shout out to Jostens!

That’s certainly a fair mitigating point. But, IMO, it’s all part of a certain kind of gun culture. There’s the “I respect firearms. I hunt, or just like shooting them off at the gun range because it’s fun, and part of what’s cool about the guns is all the accessories, and I like to have a cool firearms transportation…

needs more stars!

From getting stuck up, like they do all the damn time.

Your post makes the assumption that people want to carry firearms safely, as opposed to carrying them in the way that would allow them to most quickly shoot somebody if they felt threatened. Many pro athletes who carry firearms seem to do so because of the (very well-founded) fear of getting robbed. So, they want to…

That’s the point - you didn’t mean “white” in the literal sense - you meant it in sense of the “Jonathan Club leauge” (whatever the fuck that is). And, you juxtaposed that to where you play ball, which has a lot of guys you don’t want to fuck with, or whatever. So, if that’s the opposite of the Jonathan Club league,…