Check out Ed's twitter feed. He also made one of those charts for miles traveled per team, and of course, Portland is at the top. Most of the teams at the bottom are in the Central division.

Probably not, though I can't be sure. I know we had rats in the walls up to the 6th floor, so they were probably chewing through the walls into the trash chute areas since people weren't always accurate with their trash. Worst part was their size - everyone who saw one said they were the size of small dogs.

When is a trash chute not a good thing? When your building is rat-infested and management sends an email about rats in the trash chute. Realistically, they weren't climbing up to my 5th floor chute, but that didn't stop me from being terrified every single time I had to throw something in there. Going to the…

Getting lit up by Nowitzki and Duncan (or the Spurs machine in general) does not equal bad defense.

Except that plenty of former athletes suffer through daily pain from their healed legs. And I think there are plenty of people who get a concussion or two without long term effects. The brain is definitely more delicate than other body parts, but that makes it a difference in degree rather than kind.

I agree, but I'm not sure why. Turning into a babbling idiot because your team/sport/governing body didn't protect you sucks. But it also sucks to be chronically in pain, addicted to opiates and generally miserable with your life because you can't walk without pain.

Topic for a broader conversation - how exactly do we differentiate concussions from other injuries that have life-long effects? It seems like concussions are a big talking point because they can really screw you up long-term and it's especially dangerous to continue playing after suffering one. But where do we draw…

Death Row Records?

For the record, it would be fascinating if you WERE him.

Are you thinking long-term Bummer Rating or day-of Bummer Rating? Because by all means, getting smacked like that sucks on the day of and for a few days/weeks afterwards. But eventually you look back at it as just one of those years where your team wasn't good enough. On the other hand, those close calls always…

Can we play a Bruce/Eckstein comparison game? Drew - you seem to like Bob Mould an awful lot. A guy who had some success in the 80's and is still around but few people care about. Maybe Brad Daugherty?

Biting the guy. I'm just saying, I don't trust the bite marks. I'm not hearing totally unfounded assertions of photoshopping. It was probably just a little nibble with no marks after the fact, totally normal stuff here.

Except that you can goaltend on every single play while a purposeful handball stopping a goal is rare.

Blatant homerism alert - I just googled "human bite marks" for AT LEAST two or three minutes, and none of them look like that guy's shoulder. And considering how much that guy flopped throughout the game, I think he planted the evidence. (serious that the marks don't look like other bite marks, not seriously…

Tooth story. One lonely night in law school I made myself some pasta and used some delicious, home-made pesto my mom had given me a few weeks earlier. I had been studying all day and with a few drinks, the meal hit the fucking spot. Until the second-to-last bite when I hit something hard. Small and white, but…

Just curious if anyone knows why the Italian assistant coach (or whoever he was) got ejected. I was at a bar with no sound and just saw him yelling and such.

My understanding is that not a single person outside of Uruguay expected them to win. Maybe he didn't describe it enough here, but they were heavy HEAVY favorites.

the other problem is you can't always tell if the ball would have gone in but for the hand ball.

agreed. The logic is exactly the same as fouling in basketball, either to prevent a layup or when you're down at the end of a game. I always thought it was weird that people considered it cheating.

"Yeah baby, walk those stairs"