The Celtics. But how much of that can be attributed to Kyrie? They seem to be doing pretty well without him, and did pretty well without him last year as well.
And just so we’re clear, are you really arguing that Kyrie is better than LeBron? That he has more impact on winning? If not, what is your point? If so, please…

There were a few years there that they had Kyrie without LeBron. Do you need reminding how those went?

My wife starting singing about the “eensie-weensie spider” instead of the “itsy-bitsy spider” to my one year old and I about had an aneurysm. We consulted google and, to my shock, she did not actually make up that butchered version, though mine is the clear majority view (in the US, at least). I counted this as a mark…

Once you’ve sliced and scored it, instead of popping the skin side in and cutting off the chunks incdividually, you can just slide it along the rim of an empty, thin-rimmed, wide-mouthed glass to free your hunks. Works like a charm. You can also do it without the scoring and just get a nice hunk of mango, which you…

Patagonia makes really nice stuff and is one of the more socially-responsible companies in the world. Not sure why wearing their stuff makes me a douchebag. Not really like North Face, which (smartly, for its part) shifted from catering primarily to people who needed technical outdoor gear to those (many more…

I think we’re interpreting the story differently. My interpretation was that they told her they couldn’t pay for the actual shoot (like hourly or piecework), but that she would get royalties if the images did well (which, given their reach, they obviously did). I could see how the article could be read for that…

“They told me that they wouldn’t be able to pay me for the first shoot,” Gaines said, though she did stand to make royalties and earn a second shoot if “the image does well.”

Taking advantage of a non-professional without legal counsel by telling them one thing and having them sign a contract that says another is pretty clearly a scam. Do you not think there is a problem with that? The consequences of this scam are pretty minor, but if her story is true it’s nonetheless obviously a scam.

Hmmm. Did not realize that the climax scene of Back to the Future was an homage.

But the “league” is just the teams collectively. Adam Silver works for the owners and can be fired if a majority of them don’t like what he does. So the distinction isn’t really there.

Given your handle, I’d be interested to hear your favorite three song run from a Neil album. I’d probably go with Revolution Blues, For the Turnstiles, Vampire Blues off On the Beach, but there are a ton of respectable choices there.

So many valid choices, but the one that comes immediately to mind is the last three tracks of side one of Neil Young’s On the Beach. Revolution Blues, For The Turnstiles, and Vampire Blues all just kill and fit so nicely together. Now I’ve gotta go listen to On the Beach.

I was most certainly not with you, but I didn’t hate you until you threatened to undo Television. Go away.

Isaiah Thomas, I’m guessing?

What about going to a record store and talking to the clerk? Browsing for cool albums and listening to them in the store(most stores have the capability for you to do this now) is one of my favorite pastimes. Maybe I’m just old and nostalgic, though. (To be clear, I discover a lot of new music on the internet as well.…

Generally agree with your take on Simmons, but you don’t give LeBron’s basketball IQ the recognition it deserves. What puts him in the running for GOAT is his understanding of how to use his overwhelming size and athleticism to manipulate defenses into getting open shots for himself or his teammates. His vision is…

Isaiah Thomas almost certainly is the smallest player in the NBA, possibly by several inches, depending on whether you believe J.J. Barea’s dubious official height of six feet.

No Wu-Tang? Shame on a Nigga.

Did you read the article? What about it (factwise, not tonewise) do you disagree with?

I have an 18-month old and the thing that I am most looking forward to about winter finally being over is not having to wrangle his tiny fingers into his gloves while he yells and jerks his hand away. Christ.

I have an 18-month old and the thing that I am most looking forward to about winter finally being over is not having…