“You can’t do ifs in our business.”

How to Mangle a Survey, by Darren Rovell

I hope McCain gets medical treatment for his brain cancer, but I fear he’s just going to express his perpetual “concern” about it until his condition becomes terminal.

McCain voted for the BCRA, despite pledging a few hours earlier that he would not.

Not just still playing at 39, playing at a ridiculously high level, to the point where he’s not laughed out of the room when he says he wants to play another five years. And we’re supposed to just accept that someone who “obsesses about his body” and has a “maniacal commitment” to getting better (your words) wouldn’t…

There are times when he looks like the best player in the league, and then there are times when he’s on defense.

Kids today, smh. I realize this might not get you a lot of ‘likes’ on social media but when I was younger we’d record ourselves doing ‘drive-by fundamentals challenges’ on people’s driveways. Can you execute a sound chest pass? Can you correctly switch on D? Can you box out for a rebound? And then we’d take the VHS…

All of the blatant travels are making me sick.

I thought we covered that on “insane whiteboy shit”

I have never found it all that difficult to make sure both men get their credit, at least in my mind, for just how great they are, and yet ultimately conclude that despite Nadal’s clay dominance Fed has the best overall record. Others have discussed that overall record and I won’t repeat it.

So as to Nadal, on clay,…

Flip side: Nadal has yet to win Australia. As great as he is, Nadal is obviously pretty heavily weighted in one area, which also accounts for the lopsided win-loss record against Roger. Federer has a winning record against him on other surfaces.

No it’s more Nadal is unquestionably the greatest clay court player of all time, but if you are talking about GOAT it has to include all surfaces and you can’t have an argument skewed by a player’s dominance on the most unique surface.

To add to the breakdown of the head-to-head provided by muwarror608:

That’s not dumb! Anyone who is not moved to tears at least one time in that movie is a friggin’ robot. They should administer it like the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner.

That scene in the space jam sequel when Jordan recruits the stars of today and Kevin Durant takes a look around and joins the Monstars. Gets me every time.

Counterproposal: what if Danny Ainge and his staff are lying about what they offered for George and these other oh-so-close players to placate the notoriously fickle Boston fanbase? The “No one in the Eastern Conference will trade with us” narrative does seem specially tailored to appeal to the THEY HATE US CUZ THEY…

I know contracts are inflating at a crazy pace and it’s hard to judge based on numbers, but that Jrue Holiday deal is insane, right? Not only on its own, but compared to the Teague deal. Regardless of which player you like better, I don’t see how you can argue there is a $70m (or even a $6m/year) gap between them.

This is really one of those golden opportunities for me. I mean, what if I call and we really hit it off? I’m just saying what if MY call is the ONE CALL he answers out of thousands and we vibe. I feel like we would vibe, me and Jimmy Butler the professional basketball star. It would probably start slow. Like he’d…

Having listened to the attached clip I believe the targets of his ire was as follows: The English language, the person in charge of mic levels on First Take, and everyone waiting for their car to get fixed across America.