Man, I think there’s been so much revisionist historical work that we’ve actually begun to UNDERESTIMATE just how fucking awful the NAZIS were. hhighly recommend everyone read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.

The 3 most important words in this piece: “completely privately funded”.

Eh, I’d say it is. UEFA and Commebol are clearly the top 2, Oceania is clearly 6th, so ranking 3rd, 4th and 5th is the question. Asia maybe has a case to make, but their typical best teams are Japan, South Korea and (now thanks to the wonkiness of FIFA) Australia. But I don’t think those nations are generally better…

“Months in the Capcom universe are canonically 45 days long”

CAPCOM LOOK AT THIS! MAKE THIS!

Ah, but your forget. Months in the Capcom universe are canonically 45 days long, while Marvel months can last up to eight weeks. When the two universes merge, which month format is applied? Do we average the two, or do some months follow one continuity with the others alternating?

That said, I am sure we’ll have…

What were the Warriors supposed to do with the cap space last summer?

I find the “tech bro” argument of the anti-Warriors crowd to be the most absurd reasoning. Sure, the Warriors are in the Bay Area so that crowd is surely all about them., but how is it tech bros who are the people that other fan bases have decided to draw a line at when it comes to the unacceptable day-to-day behavior…

The other fellows addressed the payroll issue below, but your point largely stands because Joe Lacob IS a tech bro dipshit, and his comments have hurt the team’s image. Especially considering his idea of being leaps and bounds of everybody else is to you know, acquire good players, just like everyone else. He did hire…

Basically. It was perfectly fine when LeBron’s teams were doing it but it’s not okay when we have two parity destroying super teams, only one can be allowed!

“Add in the class implication of tech bros “solving” a problem by throwing money at it and it’s hard for any non-fan to muster any feeling other than resentment.”

I don’t think any team has received more—or more unreasonable—sports hatred than the Big 3 Heat did, and certainly the Warriors don’t receive a tenth as much.

I think there is a sense among Warriors fans that this team comes in for more hatred than, say, the 2010-2014 Heat did, and that bothers some of us. But A.) I think fans are forgetting the intensity of some of the Heat/LBJ hate at the time B.) I think the Heat gained acceptance with time, which the Warriors have not…

LeBron James beating up every team in the eastern conference? “Dominance” and a testament to the Great Player of All Time!

Nice analysis, and I don’t disagree with any of it, but I’ll offer another side:

And the thing is that Lebron actually had the leverage to make those business decisions. This was a guy who was getting nationally televised as a high school player. Everything about him (his game, his physique, his maturity, etc.) said that he was incredibly likely to be an NBA stud. Not a pretty good player- an…

Things have changed a lot since then though. Nike/Jordan brand have been entrenched for a good while now and to beat them is going to take sooo much. Then you have to worry about the PR nightmare that comes with the kids, their father, who is always one slip away from saying something that can’t be walked back. What…

If Grant Hill can singlehandedly make Fila a big time shoe brand in the 90's, The Ball Boys could make a not well known in the US brand of shoe a lot of money.

There was an interesting story earlier this NBA season about the successes of LeBron’s friends (maybe Pablo Torre wrote it?). And that’s a group of guys that is very very proud, justifiably so, that they proved wrong a lot of people who thought James made a mistake by handing his business over to his childhood friends…

Well, now we’ve had GS blow a 3-1 lead, Cubs win the WS, Trump lose the popular vote, Falcons steal defeat from the jaws of victory and finally, a Sergio Garcia major win.