Approx. 5:20-5:32

Sounds like instead of trying to make a whole new league, these people should have just tried to fund a 4 team expansion into the AFL and snag a TV deal for that league. 

The NFL has no incentive to develop a minor league as long as the NCAA is willing to host a minor league for free and as long as kids are required to be multiple years beyond high school before they can be signed.

MiLB works because they have a quality group of players that can go play right out of high school. The G L…

Republicans generally treated Cuban immigrants very fairly from the ‘60s through the ‘80s, so much so that even today Cubans are the only minority group that Republicans aren’t totally underwater with. Minorities aren’t stupid, they remember which parties were willing to stick their necks out for them. If Republicans…

Their M.O. is to flip everything popular into being “actually Republican if you really think about it” and everything unpopular into “progressive ideals”. They’ve been trying for years to say “If JFK were alive today he’d be a Republican” because he’s remembered fondly; same with MLK (and it’s working with their…

State senate is a step down from mayor of a mid-size city. Why should he backtrack his career?

If Liz Warren had stayed in Oklahoma she’d never have achieved federal office. If Bernie had moved to Tennessee instead of Vermont after his activist days he’d never have been a rep or a senator. If Joe Biden had been born in…

When on the field Jameis is not appreciably worse than Dak or Mariota. Someone more invested than me could probably make a solid argument that he’s better than those guys.

He can’t be a senator. Joe Donnelly got stomped in Indiana in a blue wave election year on the platform of “I love guns and hate sanctuary cities”, and the main criticism of him at the ballot box was “he’s too liberal”.

I find it hard to blast him over his SCOTUS plan. It’s just not feasible to ever happen. It would require a constitutional amendment, and if we can’t even get the Equal Rights Amendment passed, what’s the hope for overhauling the Supreme Court? At least he’s willing to start a dialogue about our horribly broken…

How society treats Mike Tyson never ceases to amaze me. He spent 3 years in prison for rape, and all he had to do to get back into everyone’s good graces was beat up an aged Evander Holyfield, get fat, buy a tiger and all of a sudden everyone is like “Hoooo boy, there goes Funny Meme Man! What a great guy!!”

There’s so much volatility in the NBA over the course of 4-6 years that if I’m the Lakers I’m not sweating those pick swaps at all. By the time the first pick swap initiates, Lebron will be 39 years old and who knows who the next budding stars will be in the NBA or where they’ll be playing. 

The only way those pick…

What The Ringer is doing isn’t native advertising. Native advertising is when you have an ad that is specifically designed to look like a regular old article in a publication. You see it all the time in magazine. Like if you’re reading TIME and you flip to the next page and it looks like any other article they have in…

I’m confident that eventually some Coach’s Kid who grew up playing way too much Madden is going to be given a GM job somewhere and do just this.

The Bears scored 15 points at home in their wild card game (and checking the weather it was really good for Chicago in January, 40 F and a light breeze). I’m not entirely confident that they would have been able to put up 6 points on the road against a better defense in LA.

I didn’t say I was “anti-batflip”. Just that it’s not a celebration. You were the one who said they were “Lebron trash talking some poor sap at the Y”, and I said if they were talking trash, that’s pretty out of bounds.

I said in another area around this thread that the goal to go up 9 with the weird kick thing was…

The best part of the tournament is watching some 5 star Kentucky or UNC recruit do the “hold my balls” celebration after dunking on a 6'5" walk-on center from Vermont to extend the lead to 30. If you don’t love that, you don’t love college basketball.

The one where Rapinoe did the weird scissor kick thing was a little too much, but I’m not sure what the complaints are about the rest of them? That they hugged too long? Alex Morgan did do the “counting” thing with her fingers after her 5th goal, but I mean, I can’t complain too much about that since she just set a…

I hadn’t heard any reports of the US team trash talking the Thai team (a bat flip isn’t a celebration, it’s a taunt). That’s a pretty different level. If they did do that, I agree, that’s not okay. 

You better trot out this take again when Sweden beats Thailand 11-0 and celebrates after every goal.

Coaches shoulder way too much of the blame when really teams should be more willing to fire GMs who can’t draft and consistently get the raw end of trades. Now every coach who can’t turn Beno Udrih into Curry or can’t make the conference finals with a squad led by a bunch of middle-tier vets gets canned after 2…