Yes, if you put in the requisite analysis, Lebron and the Heat are not villains. Carmello, should he choose to go there, would not be a villain. Clearly, the villains are the billionaire owners.

I get your point.

"If somebody is controlling our minds with chemicals and medical devices, how is that different from controlling us with ideology or economic incentives?"

Define "of use"?

Aliens conquer earth. Everyone is relieved.

Exactly, times 10000.

Sabermetrics do take some of the fun away from watching the game, at least for people like myself, who are more intuitive than logical, to use Jung's distinction. Numbers, to put it simply, don't do much for me.

My outrage over these ignorant assholes is rendered neutral by my refusal to take Coke's pandering to "diversity" at all seriously.

It most definitely is, as your post demonstrates.

Totally agree. "WE called him classless, a bad sportsman, a troll. WE called him a monkey and a n****r."

Because it's easy to be outraged about racism and it gets page views.

Daniel Defense:

Jerry Jones paid Romo 55 million dollars to be the man who got them wins. Romo is a franchise quarterback.

Ten High is good because the label on the 5th bottle is conducive to making notches in pencil you ignore.

Or maybe the kid just thinks a college level course were Miley Cyrus is an acceptable topic for a paper is a waste of time.

My own experience in college and graduate school is that women, in general (obviously there are infinite exceptions on both sides), tend to take a more by-the-books, literal approach to academics, while men tend to be more outside the box.

Uh, he was born to a teenage, single mother who had trouble holding down a job. From what I've read a very difficult, unstable childhood, moving from place to place, mostly in seedy neighborhoods, and never really settling anywhere. But I guess a Hummer your senior year of high school cancels out all that. What a…

I think your on to something. I'm white and middle class and so are most of the people I know. Heat bashing, and specifically Lebron bashing, is pretty universal. I live in right on the border between CT and RI so there are a lot of Boston sports fans. When it was Heat/Celtics last year, the narrative was basically…

Jordan wasn't bringing those players to the finals because he was playing much more difficult competition, IMO.

Because Jordan never failed in the playoffs once he had a somewhat decent supporting cast (a supporting cast who Lebron fans now consistently overrate), and he never had these terrible, cringe inducing, choke performances.