It’s all fun and games until you oversleep because of instead of hearing Hawk wake you up, you hear silence while he goes to check on Todd Frazier

“I want to go to a game, but not a home game. Instead I’ll pay hundreds of dollars for a flight, get a hotel, blow all my money and then go to a football game when we’re completely hungover. Then fly back on a Monday.”

What percentage of people masturbate for the last time realizing they are doing so?

What percentage of people masturbate for the last time realizing they are doing so?

The NBA is so goddamned boring and this has been a problem for years. Unlike the MLB, NHL, or NFL you can pretty much pick the eventual winners before the season even begins. We all knew before the season began that it would be the Warriors and Cavaliers in the Finals unless San Antonio got the upset. The Cavs rule…

I would point out that the better team doesn’t always win.

In order to raise the Cup, you need to get a few breaks along the way.

Neutral: To level set, I think the disruptive paradigm shift in deliverables has really synergized senior management to rightsize their deployment of resources more holistically to mobility dynamic lifestyle adaptive millennial purple monkey dishwasher.

1st Gear:

Say what you will about the NBA playoffs but at least they’re going to result in a finals matchup that will feature great teams.

Heartwarming, because ‘Graduation’ is something most folks here in the south can only dream about....or, I mean ‘mock people for’.

Ironically most predators in Nashville lose interest after graduation.

If Calkins is trying to frame Bennett as a dick, that’s poor argument.

Maybe you should learn what a journalist is. If bloggers and twitter users are journalists now then I guess I’m a journalist for writing a comment. This is seriously everyone gets a trophy mentality, except for people that aren’t of a prestigious job title.

The friction goes all the way back to the beginning, when Mike thought his name should be first.

I’ve posted this here before, but it bears repeating. The ever-brilliant Grant Brisbee at SB Nation did a comparison of games thirty years apart to see why today’s game is so much longer. I highly recommend the entire thing, because he’s a great writer and funny as hell, but here’s the summary:

So in your conception of the NBA (no max contracts, greater player mobility, no team salary cap) how many actual “great” teams can you create? 8, 9, 10? With a gun to their heads you could maybe get a third of the owners to engage in a arms race for talent. That means 20 fanbases are subjected to 82 games of the…

The NBA has the worst structure of a pro sports league imaginable. In addition to the very good points in the article, consider:

Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game and a no hitter. He threw more than 200 IP in 14 straight years, missing the 15th by 5 outs. Doing it two or three years in a row gets you noticed. He started Game 2 of the 2005 WS and finished Game 3. He shut down the running game like few else in the league. He accumulated 51.9 fWAR.

The NBA playoffs, in theory if not always in practice, is the best postseason system in all of sports.