Those couple of dunk contests were during my college years, so they all come in a bit hazy. Was that the same one where he blew out the candle in a cupcake on the rim?

Erubiel Durazo is SO pissed you used a picture of Jack Cust instead.

Downing and Charlie Adam cost more than Coutinho and Henderson.

Counterpoint: Andy Carroll is exceedingly mediocre, but with the right arrangement of luck will fall into a couple of performances where you wonder if he’s actually good. He had a huge match against City shortly after coming to Liverpool, generating great optimism, then reminded everyone for the next six years that he…

I’m still unclear on the extent that Vince knew/signed off on Jericho doing this, but I don’t see WWE doing a talent swap or anything like that. I also think at this point, the New Japan office wants to see what kinds of inroads they can make in the US market in their spring visit before partnering up as the little…

From my understanding, that would be out-of-bounds on Sato and ball to Houston. I missed the game though, what did they call?

“Probably best defensive player at his position over a ten-year stretch” is not nearly enough to warrant Hall of Fame induction as a below-average hitter. Scott Rolen and Andruw Jones were arguably Vizquel’s equals in the field, and inarguably miles better at the plate - both of those guys deserve to go in first but…

And the best-fielding shortstop people a few years older ever saw was Mark Belanger. The best-fielding CFs anyone too young for Mays ever saw were either Garry Maddox or Andruw Jones. That’s not a good criterion.

Vizquel’s OPS+ was 82 - that makes him closer to Belanger than he was to average. If we’re playing this game, Vizquel’s bat makes Jimmy Rollins,to pick a semi-contemporary good-fielding shortstop who will fall well short of Cooperstown, look like A-Rod.

I guess Mark Belanger and Garry Maddox should have stuck around for an extra few shitty years at the end of their careers.

Nick - good choice, still not the best from Live At Fillmore East:

Jesus fucking Christ I’m so tired of this bullshit. Just because someone wants to fight back in whatever little way they can, against an institution they think is bad, does not mean you need to come out and insist that they treat all things that you think are a little bit bad with the same measures.

It has nothing to do with being a tragic figure or not. He’s doing a video series about getting traded and adjusting to a new team and city - if you think that’s a little self-aggrandizing, maybe, but certainly no more so than anything else on that medium. And since he won’t hit the floor and start moving forward with…

Kuzma was a 30 percent three-point and 63 percent FT shooter across his college career, and never really profiled as a guy who’d be a consistent deep threat, that 40 percent he’s currently sitting at is gonna come down. Klay just seems an odd comparison for a stretch 4; I decided a couple of games ago that a…

I don’t think I’ve spent New Year’s with my parents since I was like 13 and allowed to hang out with friends late at night. I’m not bragging, or a weird precocious New York city kid or anything, I just didn’t realize that anyone considered NYE as family get-together time.

My favorite is how Luke spends basically all of Empire in a swamp trying to learn Jedi shit, shows up to Cloud City too late, and pretty much loses his fight with Vader. Here, after about two days of ignoring this shitty, bitter old dude, Rey has enough Force in her to get to Crait in time AND move a wall full of…

Feel free to tell me if I’m wrong, but were there really any NBA analysts or legitimate ‘basketbloggers’ who projected OKC to finish above Houston?

If Houston didn’t cut an illegal deal and lose half a decade’s worth of draft picks over this, then he’s not the real Joe Smith.

Was Randolph ever amusingly goofy like Beas or Lance, though? He never played for my team, so I didn’t watch him nightly, but I always got the impression that Anthony Randolph was just potential-laden yet terrible.